Bartlett

25: Tavern's Poached Pear Coupe

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 25: Tavern's Poached Pear Coupe. Like pretty much anything else you find on the menu at any one of Suzanne Goin's restaurants, the desserts at Taver ... More >>

Eau De Vie: Not Your High School Schnapps

Hans Reisetbauer is a burly Austrian distiller in the town of Axberg, where he lives surrounded by plum, cherry, pear and apple orchards. He's a good farmer, but this particular fruit is not destined for the market. He grows it to make eau de vie ("water of life"), the unoaked, fruit-derived brandie ... More >>

Serious Drinking: My Sherry Amor

As a wine, as a beverage, even, fino sherry seems like it comes from a place that time forgot. The lightest and driest of all sherries, it's as if that strange, inimitable beverage from a hot corner of Spain has been created miles from any other wine or spirit, bred in isolation until it bears no re ... More >>

Downtown L.A.'s Underwater Home Mortgage Crisis

It was called smart growth, but the lofts/condos are worth far less than their mortgages

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Bartlett Pears Quince from Tulare County

Felicia FriesemaPears from Ha's Apple Farm at the Pasadena market.​ You can count on the arrival of Bartlett pears to signal the official end of summer, at least in Southern California. This year, they showed up just one week prior to the autumnal equinox; non-fall weather aside, it is nice t ... More >>

Cocktail Book Review: Speakeasy From NYC's Employees Only Bar Their Ginger Smash Cocktail Recipe

​Speakeasy, a new cocktail book by Jason Kosmas and Dushan Zaric, is the story of a couple of bartenders in New York City circa 1998 (in Twitter time, the Stone Ages) who vowed to save Happy Hour with a properly mixed martini. It was a time, the authors say in the Introduction, when "New York ... More >>

Meet Your Local Farmers at Ammo's Farm-to-Table Dinner Series

With new organic-friendly eateries popping up all over town, one long-standing restaurant, Ammo, is bringing farmers directly to you during their quarterly Farm-to-Table dinner, Sunday, Nov. 8. Next week's dinner, with produce provided by Weiser Family Farms, features a puree of butternut squash w ... More >>

Market Report: Pears A Recipe for Rustic Canyon's Pear-Fennel Salad

It's finally September, which fact you can tell by the school bus fleets, the onset of Trojan football season, and the resurgence of pears at farmers markets. This morning at the Santa Monica farmers market, the Flora Bella Farm stand was heavy with crates of them: Asian pears, red Bartlett pears an ... More >>

LA Weekly Coachella Awards 2009: The Best and Worst of the Festival

View more Coachella pics here: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Half-Dressed People & Scenes from the Desert Timothy NorrisCoachella 2009, at the awards ceremony Weirdest Between-song Banter: Paul McCartney, bless his heart, played an epic set, staked a claim on a body of work that only fools would i ... More >>

Best and Worst Fictional Presidential Speeches on Film TV

It’s almost hard to believe that we are, at long last, in the final stretches of the 2008 presidential campaign. No matter which way you are inclined to vote (though particularly so if you skew blue, where the primary race felt almost as long as all seven seasons of The West Wing), there have bee ... More >>

My Own Private Gitmo

When Homeland Security comes knocking

Saint Vera

Mike Leigh’s cardboard working-class hero

Origins of the Corporation Farm

Enter Smiling

Facing my second millennium of theater

L. Ron Speaks!

North Cañon Drive

Off the beaten path in Beverly Hills

A Night in Provence

The latest La Cienega bistro