{"id":2514804,"date":"2026-07-23T22:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2514804"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:57:13","slug":"lucia-heats-up-weeknights-with-new-food-and-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lucia-heats-up-weeknights-with-new-food-and-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucia heats up weeknights with new food and entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_137706\" style=\"width: 775px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-137706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The restaurant\u2019s menu includes \u201cPlantain Expressions,\u201d featuring maduros, plantain mole and plantain chips. (photo courtesy of Lucia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lucia, the Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Los Angeles from restaurateur Sam Jordan and chef Cleophus \u201cOphus\u201d Hethington, is introducing two weekly programs that combine live entertainment with dining.<\/p>\n<p>The first, \u201cLive at Lucia,\u201d takes place every Wednesday evening and features live performances during dinner service. The series debuted with vocalist and pianist Matthew Grant, who performs in the restaurant\u2019s dining room while guests enjoy dinner and cocktails.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant\u2019s menu includes dishes such as Wagyu beef patties with mango calypso, jerk lamb shank served with whipped sweet potato, brown butter, goat cheese and salsa criolla, and \u201cPlantain Expressions,\u201d featuring maduros, plantain mole and plantain chips.<\/p>\n<p>A second weekly series, \u201cSobremesa,\u201d takes place on Thursdays. The event features salsa, bachata and merengue music and is designed to encourage guests to remain after dinner for an evening of music and socializing.<\/p>\n<p>During Sobremesa, diners may order from Lucia\u2019s regular \u00e0 la carte menu or choose a $50 prix fixe dinner that includes an entr\u00e9e, side dish and a Mojito Martini. Entr\u00e9e options include a Burger Cubano Sando, tagliatelle with mushroom picadillo and a tamarind Caesar salad. Guests may choose from a classic, passionfruit or tropical fruit blend Mojito Martini.<\/p>\n<p>Lucia is located at 351 N. Fairfax Ave.<\/p>\n<p>For information, visit luciala .com.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source beverlypress.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The restaurant\u2019s menu includes \u201cPlantain Expressions,\u201d featuring maduros, plantain mole and plantain chips. (photo courtesy of Lucia) Lucia, the Afro-Caribbean restaurant in Los Angeles from restaurateur Sam Jordan and chef Cleophus \u201cOphus\u201d Hethington, is introducing two weekly programs that combine live entertainment with dining. The first, \u201cLive at Lucia,\u201d takes place every Wednesday evening and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2514807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2514804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lucia-heats-up-weeknights-with-new-food-and-entertainment.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2514804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514808,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2514804\/revisions\/2514808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2514804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2514804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2514804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}