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5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District. *6 Developments That Will Change the Downtown Arts District's Future*How the Arts District ... More >>

10 Best Breakfasts in the West San Fernando Valley: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

The phrase "breakfast in the west San Fernando Valley" may not have quite the same ring to it as, say, "springtime in Paris." But if you're bleary-eyed, hung-over or just plain hungry, the suburbs can provide some great meals to start your day. Whether it's a classic dish like eggs and hash browns, ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: sbe Chef Danny Elmaleh an Artichoke Flatbread Recipe

When creating new dishes for sbe restaurants Cleo and Mercato di Vetro, Danny Elmaleh leads a team of four in search of something that gives what he calls a pop of flavor. This can come from anywhere: an herb, a certain spice, or one in the range of vinegars they are experimenting with. It's an ingr ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Peking Duck Day, Pan-Latin Food Experience, Butchery Class, Dine L.A. Bread-Making Class

National Peking Duck Day at WP24 Want a round of "Duck, Duck, Goose?" No, not the game but a meal of Peking-style roasted duckling, followed by a chocolate goose egg. It's on the books at Wolfgang Puck's Chinese-inspired WP24 in honor of National Peking Duck Day. WP24 carves and serves the duck tabl ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

Top 5 Gifts for Bread Bakers: Your Kitchen, My Boulangerie

For some of us, baking bread is something that we do without much thought, whenever it's cold enough to crank the oven, for giving to friends, when our kids demand it, or as a coping mechanism (see: the recent election, long distance relationships, Steve Nash). The smell of bread baking is a fundame ... More >>

Abby's Millstone Baking Company Opens: Great Bread in Agoura Hills A Challah-Eating Contest!

For people who track the vicissitudes of bread in this town, Abby Franke's bakery in Agoura Hills has always been on the radar. For many years, the German-born baker ran Stoneground Bakery, a tiny shop in a strip mall off the 101 that provided terrific hand-formed challah and old world breads made f ... More >>

What's in the Chef's Market Cart: Padron Peppers from Fairview Gardens

What's in your cart, chef? This week, we ask Kris Tominaga, partner, with Brian Dunsmoor, in The Hart and the Hunter at the Palihotel. Tominaga's smiling at a bag of small green peppers. "They're little Padrons from Fairview," he explains, making this variety of Spanish frying pepper sound more ... More >>

Cookbook Trends: New Quinoa Cookbooks, For Health Or Pleasure

Like so many pressing culinary issues, sorting through the wealth of new quinoa cookbooks -- the latest cookbook trend, it appears, second to cake balls on a stick -- all comes down to pie crust. Of the half dozen titles we've seen of late dedicated to the ancient seed with Aztec roots, two in part ... More >>

The Road Ahead

Bread Lounge: Art District's Stellar New Bakery

For the past two years, a baguette from Bread Lounge -- perfectly moist, crusty outside and airy as a wisp inside-- was one of the city's best-kept secrets. You could find it on the tables at some of the hippest restaurants in town, in the personal pantry of Walter Manzke or Nancy Silverton, served ... More >>

Mendocino Farms Banh Mi: Sandwich of the Week

When is a banh mi not a banh mi? That is not a trick question, by the way. When it has no charcuterie? When it lacks pickled vegetables? Must it be served on a baguette? The ever-blurring boundary between all other sandwiches and the banh mi -- or what's passing for one these days -- undoubtedly wi ... More >>

Where to Find Breakfast Tacos in L.A.?

Dear Mr. Gold: As a former resident of South Texas, I often miss the unique Texas-style breakfast tacos so ubiquitous there. (I like mine with machacado.) I'm sure you know that these are not the same as breakfast burritos, and are defined well in this article about how New York has "discovered" th ... More >>

A Tortilla Chip Rundown for the Big Game

The matchup: set. The invites: made. The main: seafood, thin-crust pizzas, maybe both combined. And the snack: The one thing from Los Angeles that makes an appearance at nearly every 'Big Game' Sunday -- not that we are bitter -- tortilla chips. Much like the lore behind other popular Mexican food ... More >>

Huevos Rancheros: The Alcove vs. El Huarachito

Fried eggs and buttered toast is the Tim Duncan of breakfasts in that it's generally very reliable, if not a little boring. Give us fried eggs on top of fried tortillas topped with rancheros sauce and salsa on almost any morning though, and it's a whole new ballgame. Thankfully, huevos rancheros are ... More >>

10 Best Bakeries in Los Angeles

A. ScattergoodBread At Milo & Olive​San Francisco sourdough? You may have noticed beneath that smoky (wood-burning oven?) haze, L.A. has a new whole grain baguette, flaky croissant (even at LAX) and yes, crusty sourdough advantage. Here are our picks for the 10 Best Bakeries in L.A.. It's the ... More >>

Milo & Olive Now Open: Bakery, Pizzeria Ceiling Fans For Kids

The folks who brought you Rustic Canyon, Huckleberry and Sweet Rose Creamery have now officially opened the exceedingly pretty doors of a new restaurant, a pizzeria named Milo & Olive, which begins serving lunch and dinner today. Milo & Olive is thus the fourth Santa Monica eatery from Josh Loeb a ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Guisados

Stoneground Bakery Expands: Gelato, Pizza More Challah for Rosh Hashana

A. Scattergoodcommunal table at Stoneground Bakery​ With Rosh Hashana set to start at sundown on September 28th, you may be planning a trip to Agoura Hills and Stoneground Bakery, where Abby Franke bakes some of the best challah in the city or outside of it. But recalibrate your Mapquest, beca ... More >>

Happy Hour: Rockwell, VT

T. NguyenRockwell VT's happy hour sangria​ The Place: Rockwell, VT, in the alley behind 1714 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 669-1550. The Hours: Daily, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Deals: $5-$8 appetizers and mini-flatbreads; $5 beers; $6 house wines; $7-$8 specialty cocktails Turn the page to ... More >>

Best New Semi-Local Whole Wheat Flour: Community Grains' Winter Wheat

JgarbeeCalifornia Grown And Milled Whole Wheat​You might say Community Grains has a now-typical California restaurant-to-home-kitchen story, one most often recounted whenever Nancy Silverton, Campanile and La Brea Bakery wind up in the same sentence. The small Woodland-based mill also sprang u ... More >>

Eat This Now: Quesadillas at Quesadillas Lupita

T. NguyenA carne asada quesadilla at Quesadillas Lupita​ Los Angeles is blessed with having a great number of places where one can nosh on one of the simplest of curbside foods: the homey quesadilla. Your neighborhood (non-gourmet) food truck probably has a decent version; Mexicali's garlic-i ... More >>

Loafin': Top 5 Bakery Breads

Amy ScattergoodChallah-in-process at Stoneground.​ "Don't fill up on bread," a few million parents have warned, seated around a trattoria table, a basket of steaming slices and a cup of olive oil at its center. Their children have never listened, and it's no wonder. Bread is a much better fo ... More >>

Grilled Cheese Week Deals A Peek at Eric Hulme's Quack Attack Sandwich

Photos courtesy of The Oaks Gourmet Market & Tender GreensA grilled cheese & tomato sandwich from The Oaks (left); Eric Hulme's GCI entry, the Quack Attack (right).​As the 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational draws nearer and National Grilled Cheese Month draw to a close, you can still g ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Fred Eric's Chorizo-poblano Pizette

A. Scattergoodthe chorizo-poblano pizzette at Tiara Cafe​ In our recent 2-part interview with Fred Eric (Tiara Cafe, Fred 62), Eric discussed the restaurant as art installation, the question of Jeff Koons, and the benefits of fasting for food professionals. Well, for him at least. And a surpri ... More >>

Naan Hut Opens in West L.A.: The Mechanical Engineering of Flatbread

Celia SoudryNaan Hut breads​ Since August 2010 the small storefront on Santa Monica Boulevard and Colby Avenue posted signage that Naan Hut was "coming soon." After driving by the space numerous times over the past several months, we weren't sure it would ever open. But behold the Persian res ... More >>

30 Burgers in 30 Days: Fun with Buns at Rounds Premium Burgers (Day 4)

Sitting at the windowside counter at Rounds Premium Burgers in West Hollywood, watching drunk and soon-to-be-drunk clubgoers flit from bar to bar, we couldn't stop thinking about buns. Specifically, brioche buns, the de facto frame for every upscale burger, often lending them an unearned gravitas. ... More >>

An Evolved Cafe

Thierry Perez boosts Culver City's French flavor with L'Epicerie

First Bite: l'Epicerie, An Evolved Cafe

​Los Angeles, as is well-known, is where everybody eats Italian food in restaurants, where trattorias open on every corner, and where it is easier to find well-made Sardinian flatbread than a decent baguette. Downtown Culver City has somehow become the exception to this rule: bistros outnumber ... More >>

Top 10 International Holiday Baked Goods

K. RobbinsBerolina's lussekatter​ Though we love red and green frosted sugar cookies as much as your average Christmas-crazed six year-old, given our fair city's bounty of ethnic eats, it would be a shame to let our holiday dessert dining become, well, too cookie-cutter. For a trip around th ... More >>

More Deli at Moore's Deli

Felicia FriesemaMoore's rare roast beef on ciabatta with arugula and house made aoli.​ Little Flower Candy Company owners Christine and Robert Moore have been dreaming a little bigger these days. Inspired by Robert's parents' 1947 San Francisco sandwich spot of the same name, they opened Moor ... More >>

Getting Past the Pain: Feuilleté Chocolate at Paris Baguette

D. GonzalezFeuilleté Chocolate at Paris Baguette Cafe​ There are ways to grab someone's attention. "Chocolate. " See how well that works. Okay, now try, "Chocolate and flaky pastry." Even better right? It is this phenomenon that has made pain au chocolat one of the most well-known French ... More >>

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Pulling an All-Nighter at Panera: A Look into the Bakery's Heated Nightlife

In honor of National Bread Month, Panera Bread recently invited us to pull an all-nighter with its kitchen staff to check out their nightly bread-baking routine. Panera manager Tanell Cook begins his shift at 10 p.m. every weeknight, supervising cooks, prepping food for the morning rush and brewing ... More >>

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