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Alma's all growed up. Ari Taymor's Venice pop-up-turned-Downtown-restaurant recently got a glowing review from Jonathan Gold, who noted that "nobody is cooking quite like this in L.A. at the moment," while still slightly irked by its lack of a liquor license. Starting Thursday, the booze situation will be resolved, as Ari Taymor tells Grub Street, "We just got cleared to serve wine." Starting February 7, Alma will offer a list of twelve natural wines and three local beers curated by the restaurant's general manager, Ashleigh Parsons. The beer list is still being developed, while the wine list is a global mash-up of progressive wineries, including Domaine Sigalas Santorini by the glass and bottle, Alvarelhão from Lodi's Silvaspoons, and 2011 Domaine Marcel Lapierre Morgo gamay from Burgundy. A $20 corkage fee remains for wines brought in from the outside. See Alma's full new wine list below and find the restaurant serving vino and beer starting Thursday.

As if the burdened youth of this country don't already have to suppress great peals of laughter over the name when dining at Wienerschnitzel, now they're being confronted with images of naked adults at the restaurant. CBS spreads the word that a San Diego location of the frankfurter chain recently embraced the already curious idea of releasing a calendar for kids, in which famous movie posters were augmented with images of dogs. One of the months spoofed Jaws, complete with the famous image of a nude woman swimming above the barbed teeth of a Great White shark. The artist had the wherewithal to change the shark into a dog, but instead of covering the disrobed swimmer, he merely covered her naked body with a sticker, clearly overlooking the fact that colorful adhesives are, by design, not exactly kid-proof.

Last we looked upon Paiche, the new ceviche and small plates concept coming to Marina del Rey from Peruvian chef Ricardo Zarate, we were pinpointing its exact location in a corner of the new Stella condo complex and tasting some of the chef's uni preparations at his Downtown restaurant Mo-Chica. Today, Paiche is in full construction mode, its insides aflutter with contractors and construction crews. The restaurant, originally scheduled to buck the Marina's vast commissary of chain restaurants in early 2013, now has temporary signage flapping over its patio, telling passersby to look to this spring for the grand-debut of what's being labeled a "Peruvian Izakaya." We're not sure why the final "e" has a tilda, but suspect its kind of like the dislocated umlaut over the "n" in Spınal Tap. In any case, we can't wait to find out when the Mo Chica and Picca chef-owner comes further west.

Paiche, 13488 Maxella Ave. Marina del Rey.

Blame the landlord! That's the latest cry echoing through the din of so many slammed doors, as our restaurant icons continue to get wiped from the L.A. landscape. This week, outrage ensues in Santa Monica over the news that owners of Renee's Courtyard Cafe, the atmospheric little Hobbit-hole that still stands on Wilshire after 32 years, have left the building behind due to raised rents and an immoveable landlord. According to Santa Monica Mirror, Renee's is under new ownership as of Sunday, with the family of founder Renee Forest selling to a new proprietor. The plan is to keep the business running as Renee's for a couple of months while a new concept takes shape.