Chile

2: Philly Cheesesteak at The Bazaar

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. 2. Philly Cheesesteak at The Bazaar. Aside from "spatchcock," it's possible there's no better word in the culinary lexicon than "espuma." At least i ... More >>

4: Butterscotch Budino at Mozza

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. 4: Butterscotch Budino at Mozza. There are many, many reasons to spend time at the glorious food complex that is Mozza on the corner of Melrose and ... More >>

6. Mole de los Dioses at Rocio's Mole de los Dioses

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. 6. Mole de los Dioses at Rocio's Mole de los Dioses. This colorful Sun Valley restaurant, tucked into a small strip mall off of I-5, has many menu i ... More >>

7: Water-Boiled Fish at Chung King

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. 7. Water-Boiled Fish at Chung King. There are many excellent reasons to head down San Gabriel Blvd., although maybe not if you're former U.S. Commer ... More >>

15: Fish Taco from Ricky's Fish Tacos

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. 15: Fish Taco from Ricky's Fish Tacos. There's so much to love about Ricky's: Ricky Piña himself, who couldn't find good enough Ensenada-style fish ... More >>

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

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. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

5 Best New Gift-Worthy Cookbooks

The beauty of cookbooks: there is truly something for everyone. Whether you've got a boss who has a thing for handmade pasta, a friend who thinks they're Gordon Ramsay (but doesn't own a pepper mill), or a cousin who's obsessed with every Michelin-starred chef, you can find a cookbook to suit their ... More >>

21: Anson Mills Grits & Eggs at Milo & Olive

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. 21: Anson Mills Grits & Eggs at Milo & Olive. Finding good grits is hard in LA -- finding good breakfast grits is even harder. So the bowl of grits ... More >>

22: Beef Ribs at Bludso's BBQ

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. 22: Beef Ribs at Bludso's BBQ. Kevin Bludso's Texas-style barbecue pit, powered by dense hickory logs and a massive custom-designed smoker, is as cl ... More >>

24: Coconut Bavarois at Red Medicine

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. 24: Coconut Bavarois at Red Medicine. Red Medicine is a complicated place. After a year existing in the shadow of it's infamous critic controversy - ... More >>

Test Kitchen's Latino Series, Part 1: Mexican Chefs to Take Over Bestia This Weekend

If Angelenos are becoming intoxicated by Mexico's culinary renaissance, Northern Baja has been our gateway drug. Several events have popped up in recent years (most recently, at Playa) in which chefs from Tijuana and Ensenada have come up over the border to showcase their talents to eager SoCal fans ... More >>

Guillermo Bert Weaves Tapestries That Look Like...QR Codes?

At Guillermo Bert's art studio in The Brewery, old technology fuses with new in the most harmonious way possible. Bert's show "Encoded Textiles," which started Sunday at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, literally weaves together large-scale tapestries with QR codes that can be read with smart ... More >>

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 >>

37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 37: The Island Combo at TiGeorges' Chicken. One imagines George Laguerre, who opened his Haitian restaurant TiGeorges' C ... More >>

53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich. Quinn and Karen Hatfield's newish casual place on La Brea, The Sycamore Kitchen, is an exercise in incommensurateness, ... More >>

Music Picks: Diana Krall, Concrete Blonde, Herbie Hancock

Also Echo Rising, Shlohmo, Divine Fits and others

71: Hunan-Style Preserved Pork with Tofu at Hunan Chilli King

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 71: Hunan-Style Preserved Pork with Tofu at Hunan Chilli King. Walking up to San Gabriel's Hunan Chili, located in a nondescript section of strip mall along Va ... More >>

72: Persian Mulberries at Weiser Family Farms

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 72: Persian Mulberries at Weiser Family Farms. If you've never had a bowl of ripe Persian mulberries -- a berry about which the Homeric adjective "wine-dark" w ... More >>

76: Pork Chop at Salt's Cure

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 76: Pork Chop at Salt's Cure. I didn't like pork chops as a kid. Growing up in a home where pigs were raised in the backyard, this was often a point of content ... More >>

78: Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding at The Hungry Cat

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 78: Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding at The Hungry Cat. Sure, you can go to The Hungry Cat, David Lentz' Platonic (read: Los Angeles) ideal of a Maryland sea ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2012: Narrative Competition

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Viña Montes Wine Tasting, Urban Roots Screening, L.A. Cocktail Classic L.A. Wine Fest

Viña Montes Wine Tasting The founder of Viña Montes in Chile brings his wines to Urbano Pizza Bar for a tasting complemented by pork belly skewers, duck confit sliders, vegetable antipasti, mozzarella on crostini, and onion confit tartlet. Proceeds support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. WHAT: Vià ... More >>

Ana Tijoux: "Recording is like flirting with your songs. Touring is the relationship"

See also: *Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More *Reviewed: Ana Tijoux performs at MacArthur Park, 8/11/11 Having grown up in political exile in France during Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's reign, it seems natural that rapper Ana Tijoux -- now 34 -- would c ... More >>

Winter Fancy Food Show 2012: A Roundup Photo Gallery

Guzzle & NoshScenes from the 2012 Winter Fancy Food Show.​There's almost nothing new under the sun -- or the bright fluorescent bulbs of the Winter Fancy Food Show. There are, however, seemingly infinite ways to reformulate, repackage and rebrand the same food that already exists. The biannua ... More >>

Urban Nomad with Perry Farrell in the "Ultra Ultra Ultra Ultra" VIP Area at Lollapalooza

Jeremiah AlexisTaylor Momsen and Perry Farrell​Urban Nomad, the gregarious Jeremiah Alexis, shoots exclusive video for West Coast Sound. Check out the previous installments here. Yesterday, Urban Nomad talked with L.A. faves Fitz and the Tantrums. Today he takes us behind the scenes at this p ... More >>

Nostalgia for the Light review

DJs, Sips and Apps: Second Glass Brings Wine Riot to L.A.

​ Who said wine tasting had to be full of stuffed shirts? Add a few DJs, a photo booth, and snacks from L.A.'s cool food trucks, and you've got Second Glass's Wine Riot, wine tasting for the iPhone generation. And, yes, there's an app for it, too. "The average wine event was in a stale borin ... More >>

The 10 Best Dishes of 2010

From entree to cappuccino, short ribs to bacon-wrapped bacon

The New York Times: Los Angeles on $100 a day

chotda/Flickrmorning glory salad at Jitlada​ People choose to travel in ways that reflect their values. We know a well-heeled dentist who refuses to pay for a hotel in Los Angeles because his daughter has a comfortable couch. We know threadbare food fanatics who splurge on Korean barbecue b ... More >>

More Fun With Chile & Chocolate: Chego's Sriracha Bar

D. GonzalezDouble Chin Dessert's Sriracha Bar​ Chile and chocolate. Yes, it's been done. So while it was intriguing, it was hardly shocking to see the introduction of the Sriracha Bar on Chego's menu board late this spring. Nevertheless, like all the dishes at Chego and Kogi before it, Roy ... More >>

Live in L.A.: At the movies with Isaac Brock, Band of Horses, Angus & Julia Stone, Peter Himmelman, the Airborne Toxic Event

​Think of it as an indie rocker with extra butter. Modest Mouse main man Isaac Brock is in town tonight to perform a short set after a screening of a documentary to which he (along with James Mercer, Jack Johnson and others) contributed music. The film is "180º South," which retraces a 1968 t ... More >>

Lazy Ox Canteen: Where's bäco?

Finding your bliss in Josef Centeno’s ambitious new downtown bistro

In the Wurst Way: Downtown's Wurstkuche Serves Up Bohemia on a Toasted Roll

Sausage that demands beer

The Porn of Pain

Suffering may be the great, undying subject of cinema, but at any film festival worth its salt, the escalating volume of calamity, catastrophe and apocalypse means that the conscientious (or congenitally miserabilist) critic risks drowning in pain porn. Stumbling from divorce to rape to abuse to end ... More >>

Lia Halloran

Sk8ter grrl

It Ain’t Like That Anymore

By Peter Fletcher I was reminiscing with my buddy, Bruce Duff, after watching Celebrity Skin at the Detour festival in downtown LA. We were talking about the LA underground music scene back in the late 80s and early 90s (and lamenting the lack of one nowadays) and how there was a camaraderie betwe ... More >>

Discovery Channel

I ended my last post by discussing the work of film festival juries, and as it happens, this year in Toronto I find myself serving on one—not one of the festival's official juries, but rather the film critics' jury organized independently by FIPRESCI, a membership organization consisting of critic ... More >>

What Would Darwin Do?

Grease: You’re The One That I Want

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The World Chokes

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Nicole Krauss’ History of Love

Meet John and Jane Doe

The year of living famously

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Man Without a Country

Athol Fugard in past tense

Identity Crisis in Athens

One Mojito, Two Mojito, Three Mojito, Floor

Life Is Sweet

On caramel, the new chocolate

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Around this time of year, we start to yearn for restaurants that put their smoke in the meat, not in the street . . .

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997