Peter hits Oktoberfest in August at the Balboa Bay Club and Resort/Newport Beach with Chef Joseph and Dieter for “The Chef Knows” on KJLA TV.  Try Big Bear and Alpine Village for Oktoberfest in September.  August 22 show includes West L.A. Pavilions and guest chef Vernon Cardenas.
L.A. radio? KFWB changing to Talk; Bill Handel as Dr. Laura departs KFI; Mike tells the radio ‘facts of life’ and Peter’s dad, Elmer worked on KABC TV 28 years.  

Mike visits Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the ‘Bean,’ and Chicago pizza.
Uno’s on the way to the Contemporary Art Museum.  Due’s nearby.  Uno’s is deep dish pizza with a crust unlike others.  Also Giordano’s a block from the Willis Tower (formerly Sears).  Famous stuffed crust pizza topped with thick layer of tomato sauce.  The verdict?  Mike recalls Joe and Lena’s pizzas in his Queens, NY neighborhood.  On “The Chef Knows” Peter visits Numero Uno Pizza: closest to Mike’s childhood memory-sense.  Why was Peter kicked out of Village Pizzeria?

Mike likes Andy and Matt’s Arb Pizza Cafe 11946 Ventura Blvd, Studio City.  Mike makes your mouth water for Arb’s Neapolitan, Brooklyn style browned crust, thin slices you fold with olive oil dripping down your chin, oregano awakening your senses.  Cheesy, tomato balance, and satisfying.  California Pizza Kitchen is good, too.  Mike endorsed them. CPK even in Chicago.
Last week’s guests: Agape’s Michael Beckwith and Mark Harris.  Also Heather Gardea from Coco’s TV spots.  Peter meets Coco’s girls in Barney’s Beanery!  He’ll review the Arcadia Coco’s on Baldwin.
Peter remembers Randy Thomas’ advice and reads why Stanley from Tustin and Dr. Kin both like El Patio Bar and Grille in El Monte.  

Why Mike loves “Polka” off the Glendale Freeway: 4112 Verdugo Road in L.A.
Peter’s friend, Eddie loves ‘Polka,’ too. Polish pierogi, golabki, veal kotlet, kielbasa, hearty soups, fresh veggies. Best Polish food says iPhone review.  Peter talks about our first programming meeting at Jumping Java in Studio City.
Pop!  goes Peter for “Pop Champagne” Sundays on Union Street in Pasadena.

Mike Sakellarides and Peter Dills host one of their most fun shows featuring guests from two different worlds who become fast friends with a mutual interest in better health; and we call New York for a renowned motivational and spiritual teacher.

Heather Gardea drove to Studio City from South OC to see Mike and Peter.  Heather is the Executive Chef of Coco’s and Carrows Restaurants where she creates delicious, fresh new menus inspired by her fine dining career.

Mark R. Harris was an agent, then rose to be a top Hollywood producer of hugely successful films including Academy Award winner “Crash” and "Gods and Monsters."  Mike met Mark earlier at Alexia Robinson’s “Actor’s Edge” in the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks.  Learn more at www.alexiarobinsonstudio.com

Mark also produces transformational media for Agape Media International with call-in guest Michael Bernard Beckwith.
Michael’s PBS Television Special, “The Answer is YOU” will be taped Thursday, August 20th at Club Nokia at L.A. Live.  And you can be there!  To purchase tickets go to www.agapelive.com/pbs  

AND, Mike and Peter are giving away five pairs of tickets to the taping and five pairs of the ‘Spiritual Liberation’ book and DVD combos to the first listeners who e-mail Peter with their request tickets OR the book/DVD.  
Go to www.PeterDills.com and click his e-mail address right away! 

To learn more about Heather Gardea and dining at Carrows and Coco’s in the west and southwest go to:  www.CatalinaRestaurantGroup.com

Mike Sakellarides recalls his special 40th Anniversary Woodstock memory.

This weekend: the Taste in San Pedro tribute bands Tom Petty Theft, Hollywood Stones, and Bella Donna.  Sunland hosts the World’s Largest Watermelon Festival.

Mike visited the Americana in Glendale to see Randy Thomas, co-author of “Voice For Hire” at Barnes and Noble.  She broke the glass ceiling for women to voice the Academy Awards. And Voila!  Randy is on the air with us from the set of Entertainment Tonight!  Friday at Book Soup in West Hollywood: giving away a VIP Tour of Entertainment Tonight.  Peter recommends Boa Steak House or Sushi Roko for dinner.
Randy enjoyed Katsuya in the Americana in Glendale and famous Spago.
Dinner with former Miami radio friends: Frank Mottek of KNX, Robert Walker, and Diane Dimond working on the Michael Jackson story at ET.

Mike mentioned Gabrielle Carteris and Keri Tombazian, among those making the Screen Actors Guild a better union.
Randy and VO friends are creating a space at SAG to help improve skills with the Don LaFontaine VO Lab at SAG.
Mike relates the warm friendships in the V-O community including Bill Ratner, Neil Ross, Bob Bergen, and Marc Cashman after losing radio gig.  Randy Thomas critiques Peter’s prospective VO career.  VoiceForHireBooks.net

Peter, worn out from his birthday hiatus, tells of amazing reunion with Dodger fan friend, thanks to his mom’s scrapbook.
Peter hosts The Chef Knows KJLA TV 3 PM on satellite, cable, TiVo with eight reviews.
Peter hosts August 15th event at Pavilions, West Hollywood with Chef Vernon Cardeneras of the Boa Steakhouse of West Hollywood and more Mojito stories.

Peter raves about Robins BBQ in East Pasadena at 395 N. Rosemead, and
a great anniversary spot: the Stoney Point Restaurant, Pasadena.
Mike is going to Chicago and will come back with a pizza report!
Reach us both on Facebook or PeterDills.com

Radio Secrets: Mike reveals what happens when DJ’s are stuck in traffic and arrive late.
In Santa Barbara Tom Leykis wonders 'what's happening to local radio?'
Mike and Peter reveal other naughty radio secrets.

The Taste in San Pedro Ticket Giveaway to the event on August 1st and 2nd.

Tipping: how much, how some servers work for 'nothing but tips' illegally.
How thousands of L.A. actors work for just 'a meal and a reel.'

Restaurant critics rules and regulations!

Wine bars are popping up like Starbucks around Pasadena, Arcadia, and Monrovia.
Peter mentions Heritage, the Vertical, Mission Wines, and the California Wine and Cheese Shop.

Peter’s next TV shoot: Corona’s Lone Star Steakhouse.

Great time at “East L.A. Meets Napa” last week.  Peter ran into old friend Jaime Jarrin, Spanish voice of the Dodgers.

Guest: Laura Kath, the ‘know it all’ of everything in Solvang and Santa Barbara.  Danish capital of America grows happy grapes in the Santa Ynez Valley.  Theater, dining, windmills, sweets, and wine tasting.  Solvang Visitors and Convention Bureau.  SolvangUSA.com

Travel agent Paula Mitchell Manning raves about Carnival and Silver Seas cruise dining.  Call Lynn to Travel.  www.cl2t.com

Guest:  Mr. Rock n’ Roll Brian Beirne of KRTH fame and host of “Cruise Night” in Glendale with 450 classic cars Saturday night.  Pat Boone.  Music by the Four Preps “26 Miles;”  Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean: Surf City and the Little Old Lady from Pasadena;
then, Sha Na Na’s 40th anniversary since Woodstock and Mike was there.   Free on Brand Blvd. at Milford south of the 134 Fwy.

California cuts almost a billion dollars from education.  Mike loses teaching job at Fullerton College.  Mike will work on an AFI project.

At 4 PM Peter will be at Pavilions in Arcadia.  Peter hosts ‘the Taste in San Pedro.’  August 1 & 2 at Point Fermin Park.  Call live at 818-602-4929.  Facebook.  PeterDills.com

Years ago at Dominick’s on Foothill Blvd in La Crescenta, a popular waitress, Carmela, wore a button that said, “Tipping is not a city in China!”  Listen or download at LATalkRadio.com channel 2.

Guest: John Rivera Sedlar, chef/owner of Rivera in Los Angeles: 
wine is the compadre of food.  Latin food has taken a backseat to other great cuisines, but we’re turning the corner, standing shoulder to shoulder with French, Italian, and Chinese.  Participating chefs will prepare family treasures from Mexico and South America at tonight’s “East L.A. Meets Napa” to benefit Alta Med clinics that serve 140,000 clients a year.   www.AltaMed.org

Rivera creates corn masa with fresh flower petals in a floral pattern: tortilla florales.  Rivera mixologist Julian Cox is passionate about his work.  Rivera, 1050 S. Flower St. across from the Staples Center in Downtown L.A., the birthplace of our city.  Next time you go Latin, explore the menu and the wines on the menu!

Peter’s show on KJLA TV Saturdays, at 3pm, “The Chef Knows” is searching for the perfect mojito.  Dills appears Friday, July 17th at Pavilions in Arcadia teaching how to make the perfect mojito.  From 4 to 7 pm.  Free at Pavilions, 755 Naomi, Arcadia, off of Baldwin. 

E-mail: Sam Ginsberg, San Fernando Valley likes Spitfire: BBQ. 
Peter: the owner of Stoney Point, Eagle Rock, makes a top Caesar salad!

Call us ‘live!’  Introduce us to new places at 818-602-4929.

Guest: Castulo De La Rocha, Pres and CEO of Alta Med Health Care for “East L.A. Meets Napa,” Friday, July 10, 6 PM at Union Station to benefit the under-served in L.A. and O.C. featuring restaurants like Rivera, L.A., Casa de Mole East L.A., and Flights in Whittier.  20 wineries: Ceja, Madrigal, and more.  “Bottle Shock” cast.  Jose Rizo Jazz on the Latin Side All-Stars. Tickets $125.  www.altamed.org  323-889-7886.

Guest: Joshua Lurie of www.FoodGPS.comVanderbilt U; assisted on JAG and NCIS.  Enjoys San Francisco's Ferry Building, Saturday Farmer’s Market; Captain Mike’s Holy Smoke, Mission Street; the Slanted Door (Vietnamese); Hog Island for fresh oysters;  Ghirardelli chocolate for the ladies.  Lurie wrote in the L.A. Times about refreshing, sour beer with wild yeast: great Russian River sours, Temptation and Supplication.  Twitter.com/foodgps   Facebook.com/foodgps   foodbuzz on foodblog network.

Peter at Pavilions from 4-7 PM, Friday, July 17th in Arcadia to show how to make the perfect mojito.  www.PeterDills.com looks for the best mojito at the Cannery in Newport Beach. Dills hosts “The Chef Knows” on KJLA TV at 3 PM Saturdays, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.  July 4th BBQs, fireworks and the Sierra Madre Parade.  Everything tastes better at the beach: Mike’s memories “Under the Boardwalk” of Long Beach, N.Y.

Special guest Nia Vardalos of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" talks about her directorial debut "I Hate Valentine's Day."
Also, Angeliki Giannakopoulos from the 3rd Annual L.A. Greek Film Festival and Jill Garneski, of CelebritySoup.net

Peter Dills and Mike Sakellarides recall ‘Greeks on a Greyhound,’ a Father’s Day story.

Peter asks what’s in a Greek Salad?  How Caesar Salad was born ‘south of the border.’
Casa Bianca in Eagle Rock, CPK, and Numero Uno spur Mike’s childhood memories.

Peter looks to his day at Pavilions in Newport Bay with the perfect ‘mojito’ thanks to Bacardi rum!

Peter reads a review by Alfredo from Monrovia raving about Tio’s Tacos in Riverside.
One mention about oysters on-the-half-shell renders an Oyster Bay, Long Island tale.

Here comes the Greyhound again!  How Mike met his wife of 39 years.
And Woodstock was their first big date!

Mike and Peter are on Facebook.  Peter Dills does MySpace and even Twitters!
InsideMusicMedia.com editor Jerry Del Colliano learned it all from his USC students.
Mike supports the Performance Rights Act.
Watch Peter on cable, satellite or TiVo as “The Chef Knows” Saturdays, 3 PM, KJLA-TV.

Listener Donna writes a Father’s Day e-mail tribute to Peter’s late dad, Elmer.
Mike’s late dad barbequed burnt offerings.  Mike rebels with a taste for the ‘rare.’

Listener Mike Rough, Mt. Washington, gives ‘thumbs up’ to the Riviera Restaurant on South Flower in downtown L.A.

Mike eulogizes Bennigan’s on Brand Blvd in Glendale and their Monte Cristo sandwich filled with ham, turkey, Swiss and American in a fried pastry.  Peter pulls a save with the Salt Shaker on Central Avenue that makes a great Monte Cristo, too!

Father’s Day rap about the Sarah Palin and David Letterman controversy.

Peter plays “Grumpy Old Man” to parents and their child’s behavior in restaurants.
HomeTown Buffet could be a lifesaver with impatient, finicky kids this Father’s Day.

Peter says go for a ‘green’ ride on the Gold Line from Long Beach to Pasadena for $5 !
Mike’s best Father’s Day?  A ride on the Santa Monica Pier with his son at sunset!

The two pops agree, just give Dad some love on his special day and you’re ‘home free!’

Mike Sakellarides and Peter Dills: two dads kick back and take names for food and fun.       

Can warm beer and fish and chips ward off ‘June gloom?’

Check Glendale’s Red Lion or Ye Olde Chip in Fullerton. RIP Bennigan's on Brand.

Heavy lifting at Gold’s Gym. Giving Costco some love.

Peter’s recipe for Father’s Day grilling: ‘cheeseburger, cheeseburger!’

Amy Snively asks 'where to take hubby for great, fresh seafood?'

Moonshadows on PCH in Malibu serves awesome crab cakes.

Why holidays can be the worst time to try a new restaurant!

Want to make the perfect 'mojito?'

Peter appears at 3 PM, Saturday, June 20th at the Newport Coast Pavilions with Joseph Ledger, executive chef at Balboa Bay Club, to demonstrate with great Puerto Rican Bacardi rum!

Gladstones wins with the best mojito in Long Beach.

Kathy Moses tags Brookhurst and Cerritos for Middle Eastern specialties like molokhia in Anaheim.

Beware of Greeks throwing plates!  At Aegean in Laguna Beach and Papadakis Taverna in San Pedro.

PeterDills.com YouTube.  The Chef Knows on KJLA TV 3 PM, Sat.

Peter’s heritage: his dad was critic Elmer Dills of KFI and KABC TV fame.

Mike recalls why 18 is not a smart drinking age.

Pros and cons of Yelp.com

Julie Spira, cyber-dating expert signs in from Donald J. Pliner.

On the June 19th we celebrate 'beer cheer' with Randy Clemons from Whole Foods!  And Peter takes a ‘French Dip’ at Philipe’s.