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Celestino Drago's new Osteria Drago started its lunch service this week, doubling your opportunity to get in the door of this Sunset scorcher. The West Hollywood audience will appreciate light antipasti like melon with Parma prosciutto, kale and vegetable soup, and buffalo mozzarella caprese, as well as options for both small and entree-sized salads, as in a bantam serving of grilled peaches, arugula, and speck and bigger options like warm salmon with mixed greens and Belgian endive. Pasta and meat dishes look enticing, including a grilled swordfish with cherry tomatoes, capers, and oregano, squid ink spaghetti with Manila clams, spelt fettucine, veal Milanese with panzanella, and—Dio ci Benedirà!—sea urchin tagliolini. See the full menu below, served Monday through Friday at 8741 West Sunset Blvd. West Hollywood; 310-657-1182.

Today Besha Rodell takes the big shoes she has to fill straight into Jonathan Gold's turf, grabbing a couple of pre-Hispanic Mexican meals at Juan's Restaurante in Varrio Bolen Parque. Shortly after crediting an empanada de flor de calabaza (no, not an "empenada," guy), she writes, "Then came the weirdness." This includes a "unwieldy, kinda slimy gray-green" stuffed cactus, chiles en nogada with a "candied" poblano, Stevia-sweet walnut sauce, "leaden" tortillas, and "fruit cake filling," along with a disaster of a dessert.

David Viens, once the chef and owner behind Lomita's Thyme Contemporary Cafe, faced some damning testimony from his own daughter yesterday while on trial for the murder of his wife, Dawn Viens, who met her accused killer while working as waitress at the place. According to Contra Costa Times, Jacqueline Viens first dropped the dime on dear old dad after he confessed to the killing as the two drove home from the cafe following closing (and here we thought learning the birds-and-bees made for an awkward conversation).