Andre Guerrero

Burger Week 2013 at The Oinkster: Doritos Bell Beefer, Thrilla From Manila More!

It's a burger throwdown for restaurant and diners, with the return of The Oinkster's Burger Week from Monday, June 3 to Sunday, June 9. While the slow fast food joint faces off with popular flavor profiles, customers will have the seven-day "Burger Challenge" to contend with. Around the same time l ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Maximiliano Chef Andre Guerrero A Recipe for Lemon Rapini Linguine

Andre Guerrero has covered enough mileage at restaurants across Los Angeles that your immediate association of the chef is it's own a litmus test for Angelenos. Millennials will recognize The Oinkster; Gen X-ers might recall Duet or Linq; and Baby Boomers will likely associate him with Café Le Mond ... More >>

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Tapenade Does Dinner on the Buddy System

Newly opened Tapenade is already staging an ambitious chefs' dinner -- well, actually, a buddy party. Set for Feb. 27, it will showcase dishes created by pals of Tapenade chef Ressul Rassallat. The pals are Andre Guerrero, with whom Rassallat worked at Maximiliano, and David Feau, who just ended ... More >>

The New Pastrami Sandwich 3 Great Places to Get One

This week we're launching a new series called Food of the Moment which devotes itself to an ingredient or dish currently experiencing an boom at local eateries. We'll then eat it, dissect it, discuss it -- and tell you where you can get some. In a Slate piece back in September, Rachel Levin chronic ... More >>

Food GPS's Beer Float Challenge Returns

Joshua Lurie of Food GPS is bringing back the Beer Float Challenge for a fourth year as part of the upcoming L.A Beer Week, which stretches from Sept. 20-30. The beer float throwdown will take place on Saturday, Sept. 29 from 2-5 p.m. at Golden Road Brewery and will pair up five ice cream-making ch ... More >>

A July Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

After a five-year run in Culver City, the eccentric Japanese maid cafe/art gallery Royal/T closed in late July, celebrating its final days with tea ceremonies and pop-ups. "It was successful beyond my imagination," says owner Susan Hancock, who plans to take her brand on the road with pop-ups in New ... More >>

74: The Sea Urchin Tostada at La Guerrerense

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 74: The Sea Urchin Tostada at La Guerrerense. Sure, you can eat Sabina Bandera González' glorious seafood tostadas here in Los Angeles, at the LA Street Food ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/23 - 7/27

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Of course there's never a reason to eat a doughnut. No amount of self-delusion will allow you to believe that fruit filling is a dose of vitamins for the day. " 10 Best Doughnuts in Los Angeles. "I know, you'd think it wou ... More >>

The Oinkster Goes to Hollywood: Andre Guerrero to Open a Second Oinkster

Even the most experienced restaurateurs still listen to friends' advice. Such is the case with Andre Guerrero and his plans to expand The Oinkster brand to a second location, which will occupy the former Sushi Hiroba on Vine Street between Melrose and Santa Monica Blvd. "A friend of mine pointed i ... More >>

Q & A with Andre Guerrero: Food Neighborhoods, Closet Pastry Chefs Ramen Dreams

Andre Guerrero can't imagine living anywhere other than Los Angeles. Save for his earliest years in the Philippines and a couple spent in San Francisco when his family initially moved to the United States, Guerrero has essentially been a lifelong L.A. resident. Over the course of a 30-plus-year ca ... More >>

What You Missed at Oinkster's Burger Week: Brought to You by Hood Burger

Did you miss out on Oinkster's 2nd annual Burger Week? We sampled a few of the seven classics-inspired sandwiches ourselves, but lacked the true gastronomic constitution to sample all of them. Luckily, Geoff Sawyer and Molly Bergen of the new food blog Hood Burger have been providing burger aficiona ... More >>

The Oinkster's Burger Week Returns: White Castle Sliders, Big Macs Sourdough Jacks

From June 4 through June 10, Andre Guerrero's retrofied pastrami and burger shack in Eagle Rock will host round two of it's popular Burger Week, which features a burger-a-day tribute to some of America's cherished cheeseburgers re-engineered by the bun 'n' patty architects in The Oinkster kitchen. ... More >>

Highland Park Kitchen Opens on York Blvd. What's Happening in Highland Park

Highland Park Kitchen on York Blvd. had been open for only about ten days in early March before a front page L.A. Times article declared Highland Park a soon-to-be "outpost of hipster cool" with York Blvd. its "ground zero." In recent years, the northeast L.A. neighborhood has seen an influx of hip, ... More >>

Maximiliano's: Congratulations, Highland Park

Congratulations, Highland Park! Because you've finally transcended a soul-crushing abundance of taqueros, great bars and really good regional Mexican restaurants with a slightly befuddling celebrity-chef-owned trattoria of your very own. The conceit here is re-invented red-sauce Italian cooking, enl ... More >>

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The Oinkster/Maximiliano/Eagle Rock Brewery Take the Bacon at L.A. Beer Float Showdown

Steven ArmstrongChef CJ Jacobson has fun with liquid nitrogen at the third annual LABFS​ Saturday marked the third annual L.A. Beer Float Showdown. And unlike last year's showdown, which featured four local beer bars, this year's competition teamed five L.A. chefs (including three Top Chef alu ... More >>

LA Beer Float Showdown, Part III: Bigger, Bolder, Top Chef-ier

Food GPSA scene from last year's showdown at Verdugo Bar​ No LA Beer Week would be complete without an LA Beer Float Showdown, just as no ice cream would be complete without... beer? A sugary sacrilege to some, and a boozy benediction to others, beer floats symbolize the unique strain of genre ... More >>

Maximiliano: Andre Guerrero's New Highland Park Restaurant Opens

There'B. HansenAndre Guerrero in front of Maximiliano's wall​s spaghetti on the wall at Andre Guerrero's (The Oinkster) latest restaurant, Maximiliano, which opens Friday (yes, Friday) in Highland Park. Nobody threw it there, and the staff didn't forget to clean it up. It's a design feature, a ... More >>

Andre Guerrero's Latest Restaurant: Maximiliano, or "Old School" Italian in Highland Park

courtesy: Andre GuerreroAndre Guerrero and Jan Purdy​Andre Guerrero (Oinkster), who left BoHo not terribly long ago, has been busy scouting out new projects. Not only is he working on a second Oinkster downtown, but now comes news that the chef will soon be opening an Italian restaurant. Maxim ... More >>

Staff Meals: 10 L.A. Chefs/Restaurateurs Recall the Best and Worst

Picasa user KeithChefs eating​"I never had a bad staff meal," said former Palihouse chef Gary Menes. "I'm very grateful for all the chefs I've worked for. They don't have to do it. It's not mandated by law that they have to feed us, or the waiters. That's their generosity, and I humbly accept ... More >>

LudoBites 6.0: Coming to Max Restaurant in Sherman Oaks

LudoBites​ For everyone who has been pining for LudoBites, chef Ludovic Lefebvre's moveable feast of a restaurant, since the last edition at Gram & Papa's ended, you can start your emailing and tweeting again now. The next edition of LudoBites -- this is now 6.0, if you and Sam Sifton are cou ... More >>

Your Andre Guerrero Update: No on Señor Fred and BoHo, Yes on Oinkster, Etc.

Food Network screenshotAndre Guerrero with Guy Fieri​ Andre Guerrero is a busy man these days, what with running his hugely popular Oinkster joint, location scouting for a second Oinkster, and co-ordinating with the Lefebvres on their upcoming LudoBites 6.0, which will be running out of Guerr ... More >>

Taste of FPAC: The Oinkster Manila Machine

Cathy Dahn/GastronomyBlogsisig from Manila Machine​ Filipino cuisine is finally entering the mainstream, thanks to a handful of high profile chefs, the rise of food trucks, an interest in street food and ethnic home cooking, increased attention in the media, and, well, some really good food. ... More >>

Marching Orders: Marché Restaurant is Closing

Chef Gary Menes at MarchéAnne Fishbein​ Marché is closing. Owner Andre Guerrero said by phone this afternoon that he's closing his Sherman Oaks restaurant, which opened just last September. Their last day will be May 8th. "We've got a core of extremely loyal customers, but it just hasn't b ... More >>

Bon Marche

It's carpe diem at Gary Menes' latest restaurant

Butter Tart Bakery Won't Open: A Second Oinkster In The Works Instead

Butter Tart, the Glassell Park bakery that has been in the works for many months now, will not open. Andre Guerrero (Marché, Oinkster, BoHo) says that the decision came after six months of negotiating with the seller and the landlord of the property, which was a bakery also called Butter Tart befor ... More >>

Go for the Sugar: Cakespy's Olympic Ring Cookies

If you're getting hungry while watching all the Olympic events and poutine just isn't doing it for you, try making some Olympic ring cookies. These fantastic colored rings come to you via Serious Eats, where every Monday Cakespy (Seattle food blogger Jessie Oleson) guest blogs with a recipe. This on ... More >>

Oinkster on Diners, Drive-thru's and Dives A Butter Tart Update

Last night, a crowd gathered at the Oinkster in Eagle Rock to eat even more pastrami than usual as they watched a new episode of Guy Fieri's Food Network show Diners, Drive-ins and Dives. Featuring, you guessed it, their favorite neighborhood "slow fast food" joint. Oinkster chef-owner Andre Guerrer ... More >>

Butter Tart Bakery Update: Opening Mid-January, With Bacon Confit

The reopening of Butter Tart in Glassell Park has been pushed back to mid-January, as chef-owner Andre Guerrero (The Oinkster, Marché , BoHo) fine-tunes his new bakery/restaurant. For Guerrero, fine-tuning in not simply figuring out which coffee to buy (Intelligentsia) or tweaking his granola rec ... More >>

A Few Recipes From the Chef: Pastry Chef Jan Purdy's Holiday Cookies

When we stopped by to visit Butter Tart bakery--which is set to reopen next month--the other day, pastry chef Jan Purdy was in the kitchen, baking holiday cookies. Purdy has been working with Butter Tart chef-owner Andre Guerrero since their days together at Linq (which is now the home of Christophe ... More >>

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