JUAN ENCHANTED EVENING, YOU WILL DISCOVER ROSALINE Melrose’s Trendiest New Restaurant

JUAN ENCHANTED EVENING, YOU WILL DISCOVER ROSALINE, by Ilene Proctor When Zagat talks food, everyone listens. And, Zagat not only talks food, they absolutely rave about Rosaline, a culinary tribute to the chef’s beautiful mom, gracias mamacita! By now, there’s isn’t a living food critic around that doesn’t boast that Rosaline’s famed chef and owner Ricardo Zarate is the master of the culinary universe. Taken over the heart of gentrified Melrose, where more often than Rosaline is buzzing with all of Hollywood’s beautiful pros, apropos and prologues. The reason is Ricardo’s Peruvian fusion cuisine, it’s as if Peru and Japanese cuisine, although separated at birth are now finally fused into pure culinary genius. Ricardo’s creed is that a well-planned menu is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So, witness his starter menu which includes chicharron de paiche which seduces with popped kiwiche hotted up with Amazonian paiche bedded down with yuzu aioli sauce. $10, Or go with causito rocante a menage a trois of crispy potatoes, salted cod, seasoned pickles played over a sauce of wasabi Dijon mustard. $8. Dine and wine with this gift from the sea: aromatic arroz con marisco: sea urchins, diver scallops, tiger prawns, manila clams dressed to the nines with Ricardo’s dreamy seafood rice. $36. Or, veg out on Allpa, from the soil: the divine solterito lima beans salad, avocado, blistered cabernet tomatoes, pickled onions, goat cheese, botija olive , paradise tossed with Amazonian choclo corn. $17. Or, you can meat and greet friends with juane de chancho pork ossobucho, adobo, peanuts, garbanzo soft tamale, hardboiled egg, warmly wrapped in banana leaves.$34. This is as close to culinary perfection as one can get. Legends have sprouted from less. Rosaliné 8479 Melrose Ave West Hollywood, CA 90069 (323) 297-9500 website Hours Mon: 6:00pm-11:00pm Tue: 6:00pm-11:00pm Wed: 6:00pm-11:00pm Thu: 6:00pm-11:00pm Fri: 6:00pm-11:00pm Sat: 6:00pm-11:00pm Sun: 6:00pm-11:00pm