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Brendan Collins

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    May 1, 2012

    California C.H.E.F.S. Host Foie Gras Super Dinner

    In protest of California's rapidly approaching foie gras ban, C.H.E.F.S. (the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards), an organization that sounds like an maniacal conglomerate out of a James Bond film, or perhaps a culinary-slanted take on the Avengers, announced yesterday that it will ... More >>

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    March 8, 2012

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Planned Parenthood Food Fare, French New Orleans, Bacon & Sides, Beer Festival, Foie Gras Dinner, Paris Cookbook Fair

    Planned Parenthood Food Fare If watching male politicians go into overdrive trying to limit women's access to birth control left you with a queasy feeling, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare. The headliner is chef Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern) along with an e ... More >>

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    February 24, 2012

    2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

    Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Planned Parenthood Food Fare: Great Chefs, Great Cause

    If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Waterloo & City: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Chef Brendan Collins Branches Out with Larry's; Opens in August in Venice

    Chef Brendan Collins of Waterloo & City and soon-to-open Larry's.​Waterloo & City chef/partner Brendan Collins is branching out. The British-born chef known for his "meat on meat crime" and his Waterloo partner, Carolos Tomazos, have teamed with Hotel Erwin's Mark and Erwin Sokol to open a Lar ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 11, 2010

    A Movable Beast: L.A. Weekly's 99 Essential Restaurants

    The modern L.A. restaurant, unleashed

  • Eat+Drink

    October 14, 2010

    Offal Time

    Meat-on-meat crime at Waterloo & City

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    Pigging Out: 5 Spots for Charcuterie

    Los Angeles may be known as the land of vegan baked goods and brown rice sushi, but plenty of local chefs also turn out damn fine charcuterie, the prepared meat products (proscuitto, pâtés, terrines, sausages, etc.) that are a celebration of all things animal. Most often made from pork, charcuter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Cold Noodle Competition Tonight at Starry Kitchen

    N. GalutenCold soba noodles from Ichimiann in Torrance​ A series of small cooking competitions featuring well known L.A. chefs is already underway, all in the name of promoting dineLA's upcoming Restaurant Week. The first round of "quickfire challenges" began on Wednesday, September 22nd, wit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2010

    The Western Food Expo: 3 Days of Food

    ​If you're a fan of behind-the-scenes programs like Meet the Press and Inside the Actor's Studio, this is kind of like that, for the food world. This month the California Restaurant Association will sponsor a three-day Western Food Expo that, while mostly geared towards those in the industry, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    Waterloo & City's New Wreck Room: Blood Pie & Darts

    A. ScattergoodWaterloo & City ​ For those of you who've been lining up to get your pints of beer and plates of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast at Waterloo & City, the newish British gastropub in Culver City, you now have a rec room in which to enjoy them. Or Wreck Room, as owners ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    July 8, 2010

    Waterloo & City: Virtuosity and Beer

    Just what Culver City needed

  • Eat+Drink

    June 10, 2010

    Chefs With Tattoos

    A colorful rebellion against kitchen rules

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Top 10 Places To Watch the FIFA World Cup

    ​Tomorrow begins the the most widely watched sporting event in the world, the 2010 FIFA World Cup. And for the next month, from June to July 11th, even Laker mania will take a back seat to soccer. The World Cup, held for the first time in Africa, showcases 32 countries. And while you can of co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Gary Menes Takes Over the Stoves at Palihouse

    Anne FishbeinGary Menes and crew at Marche​ Chefs play musical kitchen stools with professional speed, but the shift at Palihouse was a more complete game than most. Just weeks after Brendan Collins and pretty much his whole staff decamped from Palihouse to Waterloo & City, Gary Menes took his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Waterloo & City Gastropub Opens Tonight in Culver City

    Although it's not officially opening until tomorrow, the new Culver City gastropub Waterloo & City will start serving tonight. So if you're over on that side of town this evening and need a pint and a plate of Manchester quail with chopped liver on toast, or whole roast chicken with wild mushroom po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Gastropub Update: Waterloo & City to Open in 3 Weeks

    A. ScattergoodCollins and Tomazos on the roof of Waterloo & City​ Waterloo & City, the new gastropub from Brendan Collins and Carlos Tomazos, is set to open in three weeks, wrote Collins in a text message yesterday. The gastropub, which has been under construction for some months now, is in t ... More >>

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