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Barbara Hansen

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2013

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2013

    Tour Thai Town Just Like Anthony Bourdain: Jet Tila's Melting Pot Food Tours

    Want to fantasize that you're Anthony Bourdain, slurping up the same boat noodles that he did when No Reservations explored Hollywood's Thai Town? Now you can, because the same guide who took Bourdain around will take you too. L.A. chef Jet Tila, long the go-to person for visiting chefs wanting to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Where's the (Piedmontese) Beef? At Star King in Koreatown

    Where would you show off an elite variety of beef? Not in some flashy high-end dining spot but in the most beef-centric part of Los Angeles -- Koreatown. There, it's hard to find a place that doesn't serve bulgogi and galbi, and the buzz words are grass-fed, Wagyu, Kobe and Black Angus. That is, un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    San Antonio Winery: L.A.'s Oldest Producing Winery Celebrates Its 95th Anniversary

    There wasn't a drop of wine in that giant bottle of Rutherford Cabernet Sauvignon at San Antonio Winery's 95th anniversary party. It was a cake -- Black Forest, with cherries inside instead of grapes. Beside it were two other mammoth cakes created for the celebration, one of them frosted with histo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    10 Best Moles in Los Angeles

    Let's count the reasons we love mole. It's rich and intense. Warm and comforting. Spicy, yet sweet and often savory. A seamless blend of 20 to 40 (or more) ingredients that have been toasted, roasted, ground, blended and cooked. Radiant and colorful. A mix of Old World spices with New World chiles a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2012

    Two New Food Photography Books For Bloggers: Food Styling & Photography for Dummies Plate to Pixel: Digital Food Photography & Styling

    Even a "dummy" can tell a food blogger from a "normal" restaurant-goer. The blogger is the one with the expensive camera, ready to focus on any promising morsel. The word "dummy" is appropriate here, because the "dummy" book industry is now zeroing in on bloggers (Food Blogging for Dummies is alr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2012

    Charm City Cakes West: Godiva Truffles Take the Cake

    That proverbial kid in a candy shop would have fought like crazy to get into last night's grand opening of Charm City Cakes West. The slightly older party crowd could take all they wanted from a massive display of Godiva cake truffles -- hundreds of them. Introduced Sept. 1, the truffles are the la ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2012

    AltaMed's In Their Own Words II A Recipe for Pescado a la Veracruzana

    What's your favorite Mexican restaurant? It just might be one of the 17 in AltaMed's new book, In Their Own Words II, by Sergio C. Muñoz. Rather than a restaurant guide, the book tells how Mexican cuisine flourished in and around Los Angeles in the words of the restaurant owners who made it happe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2012

    Robert Danhi's Easy Thai Cooking A Recipe for Grilled Lemongrass Chicken

    Feel like eating Thai food? Then cook it yourself -- which isn't as hard as it sounds, because there's a book to help. It's Easy Thai Cooking, by Robert Danhi (Tuttle: $16.95). Danhi knows the kind of Thai food you like, because he lives here and has eaten his way through Hollywood's Thai Town as w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 26, 2012

    15 Great Peruvian Restaurants in Los Angeles

    You won't find "Perutown" or "Little Lima" in Los Angeles. The Peruvian and Peruvian-American population is spread out around greater L.A., and so are our Peruvian restaurants. So maybe you haven't noticed these eateries -- often small and unassuming spots, tucked in strip malls far from trendy rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart

    Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe Pops Up at The Charleston

    Angeli Caffe popped up Monday night with the same kitchen crew, the same servers, the same food and Evan Kleiman in charge, just as if it had never closed. Kleiman's Melrose Avenue restaurant closed in January after 27 years of service. This happened at The Charleston in Santa Monica, where managi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    BierBeisl: A New Austrian Restaurant, a Sausage Special Where to Celebrate Freud's Birthday

    Repressed? Depressed? Hungry? You can deal with all of these in one place starting May 6. That's when BierBeisl, the new Austrian restaurant in Beverly Hills, will be packed with people who can help you -- therapists. May 6 is the birthday of Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. Freud was A ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 22, 2012

    I Am a Reverse Coyote: Smuggling Food Tourists Into Tijuana

    Tijuana is the new culinary media darling, but this writer has been smuggling food tourists there for years

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Saffron Spot Serves Up Kulfi on a Stick

    Saffron Spot's Indian ice creams include a newcomer, kulfi on a stick. This ice cream shop in Little India has always had kulfi, but not frozen in the traditional cone shape. Owner Smita Vasant has procured food-grade plastic cones from India. The ice cream and stick are frozen in these, producing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    What Chefs Feed Their Kids A Recipe for Josiah Citrin's Potato Chip-crusted Chicken Tenders

    Sick of hearing "yucky" when you set food in front of your offspring? Then you might need What Chefs Feed Their Kids (Lyons Press, $24.95) by Fanae Aaron, a mom who's been through all that and much more. If you don't have kids, you still could use this book. And if you hate kids, you might want it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Jeremiah Tower's Cookbook Collection

    JeremiahTower.comJeremiah Tower on the beach​Cookbook collectors, get moving. Speed is necessary if you're going to snag a choice book from the collection that celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower has sold to Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco. "They've gone fairly quickly," says rare book exp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    10 Restaurants for Mardi Gras

    We think Paul Simon must have accidentally left out a few lyrics from "Take Me to the Mardi Gras." Sure, we love the "music in the street both night and day" and the chance to "jingle to the beat." But what about the celebratory New Orleans-style food and drinks? Jambalaya, gumbo, crawfish and etouf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Cafe Livre Update: Dinner Starts Tomorrow

    Executive chef Farid Zadi had no plans to open Café Livre's seafood tagine for dinner. But he's eating humble pie (probably French, Algerian or Spanish, because that is the sort of food he cooks). And the café holds its first dinner this Friday, Feb. 17. From then on, he'll serve dinner Fridays an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Cafe Livre Opens Its Tea and Coffee Garden

    Don't wear your lacy picture hat, and don't even think about elegantly extending your pinkie as you hold a cup of tea at Café Livre. "We want to make tea service more casual and fun, take it out of the parlor," says Susan Park, director of operations at the cafe, which has just opened its Siptea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Red O's $100 Margarita is Cheap: If You Do the Math

    Michael Clifford PhotographyRed O's $100 margarita​That $100 margarita they've come up with at Red O is a bargain -- really. Order a shot of just one of its components, Gran Patrón Burdeos añejo tequila, and you'll pay $75. Toss in another $25, and you'll get a whopping 16-ounce glass rim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2011

    Chichén Itzá's New Cookbook a Recipe for Sopa de Lima

    ​If you're a fan of the Yucatecan food at Chichén Itzá in the Mercado La Paloma, you can now make your favorite dishes yourself. No kidding. All the recipes from the restaurant, and many more, are in a just-published cookbook by Chichén Itzá's founder, Gilberto Cetina (read the Weekly's Q ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    Ahn-Joo: Debbie Lee's Korean Pub Food Restaurant, Her Cookbook a Recipe for Chicken Meatballs

    Amazon​Ahn-joo is the Korean word for pub food. It's what Debbie Lee serves at her newly opened Ahn-Joo, a Korean snack bar in the Americana mall in Glendale. No liquor there, but Lee frequents Koreantown pubs so she knows the dishes well. And she adds her own spin to come up with a modern tak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    New Cookbook: Easy Chinese Recipes, Including Some from L.A., a Recipe for Pork Dumpling Soup

    Courtesy of Tuttle Publishing."Easy Chinese Recipes" (left) & shrimp & yellow chive dumplings (right).​You'll find a couple of local dishes in Bee Yinn Low's Easy Chinese Recipes (Tuttle Publishing, $24.95). This is because Low lives in Irvine and eats Chinese food all over California as well ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Top Thai Chef Comes to L.A. A Recipe for Duck Larb

    Barbara Hansenchef McDang​Royalty just left Los Angeles. Now it's coming again. The royal personage arriving this week is chef McDang (real name ML Sirichalerm Svasti) of the Thai royal family. Not content to rest on regal laurels, McDang has become a culinary celebrity in Thailand, appearing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Squid Ink Food Writers' Guilty Pleasures: Or, What We Eat Over the Sink

    Dommy GonzalezRamen.​ Every food writer loves to share "guilty" pleasures -- gritty eats with which he or she slums it when sublime tacos from phantom trucks or, on the higher end, things dusted with Parmesan and bathed in truffle oil are not available. While we abhor the notion that food sho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Chef Kerry Simon Rocks Out with his Crocs Out for KCRW

    Barbara HansenChef Kerry Simon​Nearly two decades ago, David Bowie and Iman got engaged in Kerry Simon's kitchen. Last week, "rock 'n roll chef" Simon (Simon LA, LA Market) really got to rock out, stepping up to the mic for KCRW's Guest DJ Project. Following in the footsteps of Rick Bayless, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Javier Plascencia's Baja Food Comes to L.A.

    Barbara HansenJavier Plascencia​The Test Kitchen has scored a coup in persuading Javier Plascencia, Tijuana's charismatic chef and promoter of Baja cuisine, to cook there for three nights, October 13th through 15th. Plascencia has seven restaurants in Tijuana, another in San Diego and, we he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Bloggers Set to Move in on Scoops

    Barbara Hansen​Bloggers are grabbing more and more power in the food world. Now they're about to get into Scoops, the wildly popular ice cream shop. When Matthew Kang opens Scoops' Westside location in a couple of months, he plans to call on food bloggers to decide some of the flavors. For on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Chris Behre Is Mr. Fix-It at Gonpachi

    Barbara HansenGonpachi chef Chris Behre​Last September, Chris Behre slipped quietly into Gonpachi in Beverly Hills as executive chef. There wasn't any fanfare, and Behre deliberately kept a low profile, because he had to see if he could repair what was then an ailing business. It was a big jo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    There's New 'Cue on Third Street

    Barbara HansenThe Smokin' Joint's jazzy logo lights up the night.​Just when you think there's nothing new in barbecue, The Smokin' Joint arrives on West 3rd Street. What you get here is "Hollywood 'cue," created by chef-owner Michael Kesler. "I've taken the best from all over the country and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2009

    Pa-Ord Noodle Opens in Thai Town

    Barbara HansenPa-Ord, a legendary noodle place. ​The real Ord Noodle has just opened on Sunset Blvd. in Thai Town. The original Ord Noodle on Hollywood Boulevard drew chefs and Thai food fans with its legendary boat noodles, pork sparerib noodles with ground pork and peanuts, fish ball noodles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Cook Chinese Like a Film Star: The Joy of Chinese Cooking with Theresa Lin Cheng

    Barbara HansenTheresa Lin Cheng will show how to cook Chinese.​Learn to cook Chinese as if you were in the Ang Lee film Eat Drink Man Woman. The food director on that film, Theresa Lin Cheng, will teach a class in "The Joy of Chinese Cooking" this Saturday (November 14) at 2 p.m. at the Rosem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    So Long, Surya: Indian Restaurant To Close Their Recipe For Chicken Mangalorean

    Barbara HansenThe elephant god Ganesha presides over Surya​After more than nine years on West 3rd Street, the Indian restaurant Surya will close. It has been sold by owner Sheel Joshi, who says it will be gone by mid-December. This is a blow to diners who like Surya's relaxed, contemporary Ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Go Greek at the Astroburger

    Photo credit: Barbara HansenAstroburger's Greek shake​The Astroburger on Melrose Avenue has two of the coolest drinks in town. And they're both Greek, which is not what you would expect from a corner sandwich shop. The Vissino Shake blends milk, vanilla ice cream and sour cherries from Greece ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2009

    20-20-20 Vison: Cube Offering 20 Wines from 20 Regions of Italy for 20 Days

    Barbara HansenMany Italian wines will be offered at Cube in the month of September.​Get ready to armchair travel, wine glass in hand, at Cube Café and Marketplace on La Brea Avenue. Starting September 8, Cube will pour 20 wines from 20 regions of Italy in 20 days. It's to celebrate winning ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    The Temecula Olive Oil Company: Local Hand-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil

    If you need to extend an olive branch to someone, you might as well offer the whole tree, plus a few bottles of olive oil. The place to get them is the Temecula Olive Oil Company in Old Town Temecula. The tasting room and shop sells Mission and Arbequina olive trees large enough to go in the ground ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    La Morenita Bakery Reopens in Cypress Park: Get Huaraches, Tostadas, even a Hamburger

    Barbara HansenLa Morenita bakery​Want a huarache? Mexican pan dulce? A chocolate mousse? A few pounds of tamale masa? It's all at La Morenita, a newly re-opened Mexican bakery, restaurant and market in Cypress Park. The neighborhood, which is heavily Latino, is delighted to get the place back. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Don't Cry Into Your Wineglass: California Wine Wins Malbec Competition

    Barbara HansenA glass of Malbec​Don't cry, Argentina, but you've lost a bit of your glory. The top Malbec in the 2009 San Francisco International Wine Competition didn't come from Argentina, where Malbec is so common that wine judges there get tired of tasting it. Voted overall best was a Cali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    When Bread Recipes (and Cultures) Intertwine: Alain Cohen's Pretzel Challah

    What do pretzels and challah have in common? Not much. At least until the two met at Got Kosher? Provisions, a take-out shop on Pico Boulevard just west of Robertson.

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