Anne Fishbein

Plate, LA Weekly's Food and Wine Event, 2013: Your Visual Aid

For all of you who filled the Petersen Automotive Museum yesterday for Plate, our fifth annual food and wine event, thanks very much for coming. And of, course, to all the chefs and food and wine professionals who brought you your plates of cochinita pibil tacos, salmon sushi, happily incendiary cur ... More >>

MessHall Reviewed

This Los Feliz hot spot is a stylish riff on the summer camp of your childhood

Photo Gallery: Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Cooking Class at Ciudad

This past Saturday, celebrated English chef Fergus Henderson (St. John Restaurant, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating) gave a cooking class with Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken at their restaurant Ciudad. Since most of us are not, as Milliken is, old friends of Henderson's, or local celebrated ... More >>

99 Things To Eat in L.A. Before You Die: Bulgarini Goat's Milk Gelato

On Thursday the Weekly will publish our Restaurant Issue: 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die. For the days leading up to the issue, we'll be posting a few of Jonathan Gold's items on the blog. Check back each day as we count down. Bulgarini Goat's Milk Gelato: Los Angeles is a world capital ... More >>

Where to Get Great Mochi? Who Makes Edible Lutefisk? Got A Question? Ask Mr. Gold

Got a question for the expert? Ask Jonathan Gold. Email your culinary questions to askmrgold@laweekly.com. This town is too big to navigate by yourself. And why, really, when you can get discerning and possibly outrageous feedback from himself with a simple email. Anne Fishbeinthe invisible resta ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Jewish-Glaswegian Inspiration at The Gorbals

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Ilan Hall's The Gorbals. ("Hall brings a dissipated presence to the restaurant, and even when the restaurant is steaming on a loud Saturday night, he manages to clatter his pans with a certain louche flair, as if he were doing a performa ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Monet's Briskets at Bludso's

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Bludso's BBQ in Compton. ("The intensely smoky pork ribs, ever so slightly on the flabby side, are cooked so long that, like Gaul, they divide into three parts if you attempt to wave them about.'') Click through for Anne Fishbein's spect ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Lazy Ox Canteen, Where's Baco?

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the Lazy Ox Canteen in Little Tokyo. ("What does a bäco have in common with Motörhead? The umlaut, dude, the umlaut.'') Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "Lazy Ox Canteen ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Duck Duck Taco at Cacao Mexicatessen

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Cacao Mexicatessen in Eagle Rock. ("Here is the topic for today's discussion: Why isn't duck carnitas on every Mexican menu in town?'') Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "D ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Fig Out at Santa Monica's Fig Bistro

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Fig in Santa Monica's Fairmont Miramar Hotel ("Garcia's cooking seems to carry within it more than a bit of aggression, and if I were a culinary therapist rather than a critic, I might take the slug of bacon in the brussels sprouts or th ... More >>

Got A Question for the Expert? Pretend You're a New Yorker Staff Writer & Ask Mr. Gold

Got a culinary question? Ask Jonathan Gold. You'd think he'd get an avalanche of esoteric, pithy or just downright necessary questions, now wouldn't you? Not as many as you'd think. Send an email to askmrgold@laweekly.com or tweet him your question @thejgold. Come on, pretend you're Dana Goodyear fo ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Far From the Lebanese Crowd at Mantee

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Mantee Café in Studio City ("Mantee isn't where you come for a falafel plate or roasted chicken; it's where you go to watch a stunningly beautiful waitress set a plate of sausage aflame"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular p ... More >>

It's National Spaghetti Day: Is There an Never-ending Pasta Bowl Game Yet?

So here's a rhetorical question for you: how many National Food Days are we technically allowed? Can we designate all 365 of them, or are some days reserved for non-edibles, like National AK-47 Day, or National Monopoly Day? Today, for example, is National Spaghetti Day. Which means, perhaps, that y ... More >>

Photo Gallery: The Best Dishes of 2009

Need a visual aid for your print edition? For this week's issue, Jonathan Gold explores the best dishes of the year from across our sprawling city. Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelligence, "The Best Dishes of 2009." Anne FishbeinMozza2Go's p ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Oregon Style at The Tasting Kitchen

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits The Tasting Kitchen on Abbot Kinney ("as with a surrealist museum show or a performance of García Lorca, you come to experience something unsettling, or at least to parse what is meant by 'hen bread pudding'''). Click through for Anne F ... More >>

Who Makes the Best Tabbouleh in LA? Rose Bowl Tailgating Tips? Got A Question? Ask Mr. Gold

Got a question for the expert? Ask Jonathan Gold. Email your culinary questions to askmrgold@laweekly.com. This town is too big to navigate by yourself. And why, really, when you can get discerning and possibly outrageous feedback from himself with a simple email. Anne Fishbeinthe invisible resta ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Drowning, Not Eating; L.A.'s Tortas Ahogadas

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold explores the tortas ahogadas of Los Angeles ("you do not nibble at a torta ahogada; you dive straight into it, trusting that you will come out alive"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intelli ... More >>

Photo Gallery: El Parian Will Get Your Goat

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the goat palace of El Parian on Pico Boulevard ("the broth sang with garlic and spice but mostly with a strong, goaty essence, a barnyard smack that could as well have come from the Jalisco mountains instead of from a restaurant a few bl ... More >>

Photo Gallery: New Chong Qing, The San Gabriel Valley's New Hot Pot Spot

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits New Chong Qing ("the Sichuan standby, mapo tofu, is worth trying: intricately seasoned, as simultaneously soothing and vicious as an Aimee Bender story"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Count ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Fried in East L.A. With Antojitos Carmen & The Breed Street Band of Mexican Vendors

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the Breed Street vendors of East Los Angeles ("once you abandon yourself to the magnetic chalupa forces you will be lured across the river again and again -- the CIA could learn something about mind control from antojitos masters"). Clic ... More >>

Photo gallery: So Sorry, So Good at Kiyokawa

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the Beverly Hills sushi bar Kiyokawa ("In my decades of reviewing restaurants, Kiyokawa may be the first place I was tempted to keep to myself"). Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Intell ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Hare Today, Wild Boar Sopes Tomorrow at Bistro LQ

Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold considers Laurent Quinoux's mercurial cooking at Bistro LQ ("Wild hare is strong meat: Cooked like this, it develops the divine stink of the woods in fall, of distant gunpowder, of erotic practices illegal in several Midwestern states ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Out Of The Ashes And Into The Urap At Indo Cafe

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the home of the Indonesian urap ("the salad is tossed with coconut, then shredded into a rough, pink paste, whose overtones include sweetness and penetrating bitterness, fleeting perfume and a sort of persistant, almsot human reek that i ... More >>

Photo Gallery: A Deli Grows In Glendale, Or Maybe Billy's Was There All Along

Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold writes about Billy's Deli in Glendale ("like an apparition, an old-line deli plunked down among parking structures and vacant storefronts, a place you expect to find in Skokie or out on Coney Island Avenue, but not a bagel's toss from ... More >>

Photo Gallery: What is a Burrito? A Primer

Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold considers the ontology of the burrito ("tell me what kind of burrito you like and I will tell you who you are, but tell me what kind of burrito you really think I should like and I start looking for the next escape route out of town") ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Bivalvular (and Other) Pleasures at Blue Point Oysterette

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits Blue Point Oysterette in Santa Monica, and finds the oysters ("quivering and cold, expertly opened, served on big platters of ice") worth the trip. Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more in Gold's Counter Inte ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Heavy Noodling II at JTYH Restaurant

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the noodle palace ("thick, irregular things, frilled on one edge like the gills of an oyster, and about the size and heft of a businessman's belt") of JTYH Restaurant in Rosemead. Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and ... More >>

Photo Gallery: You're a Pig! at Don Dae Gam Restaurant

Pig out at Don Dae Gam Koreatown barbecue where the big plates of pork belly are endless. Click through for Anne Fishbein's spectacular photos and read more about the about the pork fest in Jonathan Gold's Counter Intelligence, "You're a Pig!" Anne FishbeinThe number 2 combo before the grillAnne F ... More >>

Photo-Enhanced Counter Intelligence: Lost and Found at Tom Colicchio's L.A. Spinoff Show Craftbar -- Craft of a Top Chef

Most small-plates joints, including such good ones locally as AOC or Lou, follow a kind of pattern, a loose, tapas-inspired matrix designed more to compliment the wine than to provide a specific aesthetic apart from lubricated conversation, but this lunch seemed like a different thing entirely, like ... More >>

Photo-Enhanced Counter Intelligence: How to Tell a Snout Taco From an Ear Taco and More Notes on Carnitas From "Pork in the Time of Swine Flu -- Mexico City's Pig Cuisine"

Anne FishbeinCarnitas Exhibit #1: Metro Baldera's costilla, or rib meat taco In his latest Counter Intelligence column, "Pork in the Time of Swine Flu -- Mexico City's Pig Cuisine, Snoot to Hoof," Jonathan Gold writes: "Toasted corn has its place. Chiles are indispensable. The indescribable scent ... More >>

Photo-Enhanced Counter Intelligence: Ginseng Soju and Other Images You Didn't See In the Original Review of Koreatown Goat-Soup Specialist Bulrocho

Anne FishbeinRevealed: ginseng soju "If you're lucky," wrote Jonathan Gold in his Counter Intelligence review "In the Midnight Hour: Late-Night Goat Supper at Bulrocho -- Dispensing Chile-Red Comfort in a Bowl of Koreatown Goat Soup," "you may be offered a taste of the house soju, a tea-colored cor ... More >>

Animal's Vinny Dotolo Added to Jonathan Gold Carnivore! Panel With Feniger, Becerra and Peel -- Saturday Noon at LA Weekly LA Weekend. Plus, Kogi Taco Truck on Friday and Dogs From Let's Be Frank on Saturday

Anne FishbeinAnimal's Vinny Dotolo, the scarfed one, will be talking meat. Vinny Dotolo and partner Jon Shook are incapable of keeping their fleshly tendencies out of every possible course at their Fairfax restaurant Animal -- consider that their most talked-about dessert is the bacon-chocolate cru ... More >>

Akasha, More Than Sustainable

Green eggs and hemp

Circus Maximalist: Monique King's Nine Thirty at the W

Behind the velvet ropes of the Westwood W, chef's latest is all American generosity

Dog Day Afternoon: Bites of Chicago in L.A.

A frank discussion of a family obsession

Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818

Northern China's favorite snack food

King Hua's Dim Sum: Breakfast, à la Cart

In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower

Regional HQ for Spicy BBQ

Nam prik oom, the bountiful mantra of northern-Thai cuisine

All Hopped Up at The New Father's Office

Sang Yoon's latest is bigger and probably better than the original. But can you get a seat?

Keep On (Taco) Trucking

Notes from the taquero resistance

Khun Dom: Undercover Thai

Among the won tons, hidden Isaan specials

La Mill: The Latest Buzz

The next generation of coffee cuisine

Ciudad: The Great Leap Backward

Every four years, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken go back to the City

At Nigerian Eatery Saaris, America Is Turning to Fufu!

Dunkin' dough

Bean There

Kingston

Sunday in the Park

Good Grub

Mixville

dendale Grill serves up Silver Lake’s — and America’s — past

Dance While You Can