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  • Dan Dan Mian

    published November 4, 2010

    View more photos in Anne Fishbein's slideshow, More >>

  • New Location

    published October 28, 2010

    The original Pal Cabron was one of those pop-culture miracles we have come to expect in Los Angeles, a Huntington Park... More >>

  • Kid-Friendly Tacos

    published October 28, 2010

    Dear Mr. Gold: As a mother of two kids young enough to still like noodles but old enough to make fun of Justin Bieber, I find myself in... More >>

  • Ode to the Slimy Hagfish

    published October 28, 2010

    View more photos in Anne Fishbein's More >>

  • Seoul Octopus Day + The Relative Joys of Octopus Heads
    FEATURED STORY

    Seoul Octopus Day + The Relative Joys of Octopus Heads

    published Oct 22, 2010

    How many angels can dance on the head of a pinr And how many octopus heads are probably as many as you should eat in a dayr The answer to the first question, of course, belongs to the philosophers a... More >>

  • Best French Dip (Thick-Gravy Division): Jolly Jug

    published Oct 22, 2010

    Everybody knows who makes the best French dip in town. It's Cole's, which serves a chopped-and-channeled version of the venerable sandwich in L.A.'s oldest restaurant. Or it's Philippe's, the sawdus... More >>

  • Shanghai Bamboo House: Ham w/ Yam

    published October 21, 2010

    Of all the dishes I loved at Green Village, a restaurant that seemed to move locations more often than a Kogi truck, the one I... More >>

  • Our Man in Tijuana

    published October 21, 2010

    The ceilings are low, the expectations are high, and the Slayer-loud salsa grooves are making the mezcal tremble in its glass. The... More >>

  • Lasagna To Go?

    published October 21, 2010

    Dear Mr. Gold: This weekend, we're having some fellow parents over for a playdate with our 2-year-olds, and then dinner. With all that... More >>

  • [Updated, Again] San Gabriel Mayor Arrested: Or, More Fun With Xiao Long Bao
    FEATURED STORY

    [Updated, Again] San Gabriel Mayor Arrested: Or, More Fun With Xiao Long Bao

    published Oct 20, 2010

    Update: Do we have breaking news on the infamous soup-dumpling incidentr I'm afraid to say, we do not. The vinegar has been long mopped from the floor, San Gabriel mayor Albert Y.M. Huang's resignat... More >>

  • Best Simulacrum of a Simulacrum (1938): Lawry's the Prime Rib

    published Oct 20, 2010

    Like any good back lot, greater Los Angeles may be most like itself where it resembles anywhere else, from the Pasadena backstreets that have spent a century standing in for suburban Connecticut, to... More >>

  • Monday Taco Report: El Super Numero Uno, or Carniceria, Tacos + They'll Make Your Keys
    FEATURED STORY

    Monday Taco Report: El Super Numero Uno, or Carniceria, Tacos + They'll Make Your Keys

    published Oct 18, 2010

    As you speed along Valley Boulevard between Alhambra and downtown, you may notice the signs for what seems like a supremely confident establishment, El Super Numero Uno, a meat specialist with a high... More >>

  • Best High-Art Patio: Michael's

    published Oct 15, 2010

    There was a time when art in restaurants signified more than the $3,000 ceramic dildo for sale at the gift shop of Bazaar. We have fond memories of the downtown art bar dominated by John Chamberlain'... More >>

  • Best Wartime Cookbook: M.F.K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf

    published Oct 14, 2010

    The late 1930s and early 1940s were kind of a grim time in Southern California. The Great Depression hit Los Angeles as hard as it hit practically anywhere in the country, and the vast influx of penni... More >>

  • Downtown Surprise

    published October 14, 2010

    Dear Mr. Gold:   I'm hoping you can recommend a place to hold a surprise party. I'm finding this a bit hard to accomplish — I... More >>

  • Offal Time

    published October 14, 2010

    View more photos in Anne Fishbein's slideshow, More >>

  • Best Noir Breakfast (1940s): Nick's Cafe
    FEATURED STORY

    Best Noir Breakfast (1940s): Nick's Cafe

    published Oct 13, 2010

    Before yuzu vinaigrettes, before acai margaritas, before pigs whose lineage is better-traced than the Queen of England's, there was ham and eggs, which so powerfully signified contentment in Los Ang... More >>

  • Best Speakeasy: The Varnish

    published Oct 11, 2010

    The Varnish isn't the obscurest of bars; far from it. You'll find no secret entrance, obscure protocol or whiff of illegality; you don't have to walk through a coat closet or trip down the stairs of... More >>

  • Best Jellied Consomme (1919): Musso & Frank Grill
    FEATURED STORY

    Best Jellied Consomme (1919): Musso & Frank Grill

    published Oct 07, 2010

    Musso & Frank Grill, although it is perhaps most famous for serving steaks and impeccable martinis to character actors, is a rare conservatory of early-20th-century American cooking, and if the EPA ... More >>

  • Best Horsey Cuisine (1922): The Derby

    published Oct 06, 2010

    Is it the cheese breadr Is it the bacon-wrapped filet mignonsr Is it the thrilling sensation you get when a waitress asks if you want the Daily Double, minutes before bringing you what looks like a g... More >>

  • Happy National Taco Day + 5 Very Fine Tacos
    FEATURED STORY

    Happy National Taco Day + 5 Very Fine Tacos

    published Oct 04, 2010

    Is it National Taco Day todayr We regret to inform you, it is. There are e-cards for it and everything. At Del Taco, National Taco Day is probably as holy as the Feast of the Epiphany, but with more... More >>

  • Best Chocolate Milk: Norwalk Dairy

    published Oct 04, 2010

    As much as our daydreams may run toward the coffee milk you find in Rhode Island and the root-beer milk popular in the greater Wichita area, we have nothing against chocolate milk, really we don't. ... More >>

  • Over the Weekend: Pavement, Sonic Youth, No Age at the Hollywood Bowl, reviewed by Pulitzer-Prize winner Jonathan Gold!
    FEATURED STORY

    Over the Weekend: Pavement, Sonic Youth, No Age at the Hollywood Bowl, reviewed by Pulitzer-Prize winner Jonathan Gold!

    published Oct 04, 2010

    [For more exclusive photographs of this show, see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Pavement, Sonic Youth, No Age @ Hollywood Bowl"] Do the gods of programming have a sense of humorr Because Thursday night... More >>

  • All in the Family

    published September 30, 2010

    Dear Mr. Gold: We only have one night in town, but we were hoping to do an izakaya crawl. Suggestions? Not in Torrance,... More >>

  • Test Run

    published September 30, 2010

    Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant... More >>

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