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The Culutreist
I am constantly drawn to old wood cabin eateries. It could be the Nordic in me or just the rarity of being able to appreciate a wilder, gritty and more distinctive composition in comparison to the plethora of soulless concrete structures, with only their names differentiating them from next-...
C-suite Quarterly
As the rustic exterior of “The Old Place” unfolds as you enter, so do 40 years’ worth of stories. This is how founders Tom and Barbara Runyan planned it, translating homespun fine dining into a no-frills feast for the senses, from its nonchalant “old west” furnishings...
Los Angeles Times
It's well worth the drive to the Old Place restaurant near Agoura Hills for the hearty and good fare, featuring well-priced steaks and a lively, unforgettable scene.
After dinner, we slip out of the old post office — with its wall of cubbyholes stuffed with faded letters — into the...
Los Angeles Times
The fellow I met at a holiday party had just one question for me: Where do you find a great steak in this part of the country? He grew up in Texas on grass-fed beef and complains he's never found a steak here with as much flavor. He's disappointed every time he spends big bucks for a steak,...
MalibuBeachNewz.com
When I moved to Malibu in the early 1980’s Kanan Road was a sparsely developed, beautiful mountain pass and my main route to the Conejo Valley. When a longtime Malibu local told me tales of a famous restaurant located just off Kanan Rd. at a place called Malibou Lake my curiosity...
LA Bizzaro
In the relatively brief time between completing the manuscript for L.A. Bizarro and the day it hit the press somewhere in China, one business (the upscale new age sex shop Freddy & Eddy) had closed its doors and Forrest Ackerman had departed for that great sci-fi convention in the sky....
Malibu surfside News
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The Acorn
Tom Runyon Tom Runyon, owner of the Old Place in Cornell, had a way of making impressions on people.
At Runyon’s memorial on Aug. 14, hundreds of friends and family members gathered in the rural Cornell community of Agoura to pay respect to a man who by all accounts was a rugged, crabby...
Los Angeles Times
Tom Runyon, who shared his family name with a Hollywood Hills canyon and his simple fare at his rough-hewn roadhouse on Mulholland Highway with the famous and famously interesting, has died. He was 89.
Runyon, a fiction writer and occasional actor, died July 17 of cancer at his longtime home in...