Noshing on the News: Underwater Restaurant, Hawaiian Grub, and Starbucks Sayonara

Some food news to satisfy your hunger:

• According to the LA Times’ Daily Dish, the closure of 76 California Starbucks locations has been announced. Daily Dish
• For some cheap eats on the Westside, check out Ketchy’s II, a Hawaiian-style restaurant offering fast and cheap hot dogs, tacos, chilis and fries near Sawtelle and Olympic. As la.foodblogging tells us, “If you’re looking for gourmet, look elsewhere.” With $2 tacos, I’m okay with that. la.foodblogging
  
• Earlier this month, the LA Times’ Daily Dish blog shared some spectacular photographs of a new restaurant 16 feet below sea level in the Maldives, a country of almost 1,200 islands about 300 miles from the southernmost points of India and Sri Lanka. Daily Dish
  
• As a college student, we love the LAist’s newest Recession Obsession: Ramen! Find out how you can find steals of this noodle-y soup without having to resort to the packaged dried stuff (although there is always a time and place for that, too!) LAist
• It is still April, which means it is still Grilled Cheese Month! The best new highlights we’ve seen are from LA Times’ Daily Dish: a custom grilled cheese sandwich for $4 at MOCA’s cafe Patinette (with choices of Gruyère, Point Reyes blue, Brie, chipotle cheddar, etc) (http://www.patinagroup.com/) and Rush Street‘s grilled cheese sandwich with a bowl of tomato soup for $6 during weekday lunch hours (11:30am-3pm) (http://www.rushstreetculvercity.com/). Daily Dish