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Beer Pairing: Boneyard Bistro Tomatoes Stone's Saison du Buff

If you're lucky enough to be growing your own, you know that tomato season is almost over. For this reason you should get yourself to Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks for the last few weeks of their seasonal tomato salad. With a beer uncanny in its pairing power, this is the perfect last hurrah for s ... More >>

10 Best Taiwanese Breakfast Restaurants In Los Angeles

For the Chinese, breakfast is the most important part of the day. A steamed pork bun and a soy milk for take-out is pretty standard, but if you want to make it a sit-down affair, try salty soy milk with crispy chunks of twisted cruller (also known as you tiao 油条), a large turnip cake with the si ... More >>

La Cava de Marcelo, The Only Cheese Cellar in Latin American Open to the Public, is in Nearby Baja Wine Country

See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately. See also: 'Stick a Fork in It' column Tijuana Sí!. The promise of wine country that's "like Tuscany" right in our own backyard of Baja is enough to have many of us running for the borde ... More >>

The Park's Finest Fetes the Kings Today with a World Champions Combo Plate

The Kings -- that would be our hometown hockey team, not Sacramento's basketball outfit -- won Lord Stanley's Cup on Monday night. And to celebrate winning the Holy Grail of sports, Filipino BBQ joint The Park's Finest will offer a special World Champions Combo Plate today from noon to 8 p.m., whic ... More >>

Game of Thrones Official Cookbook Debuts A Recipe for Medieval Applecakes

This Sunday marks the finale of the second season of Game of Thrones, in which fans will finally find out if Daenerys gets her dragons back from the weirdo magician dude(s) and whether Jon Snow does, in fact, know anything. If you're planning to lay out an epic feast worthy of a Valyerian prince an ... More >>

A Recipe For Spinach Salad with Grilled Shrimp and Peppers What Are Mini Peppers Anyway

At first I was skeptical of the colorful mini peppers packaged in the clamshell at the grocery store. I can be wary of produce not sold from crates at farmers markets, and these glossy, firm, petite yellow, red and orange babies looked just too plastic-perfect and remarkably un-heirloom to be any go ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Soledad Goats' Eggs

Thinking of eggs as a seasonal crop might be a paradigm line some seasonal eaters aren't ready to cross. But consider for a moment the current state of the egg. We've been conveniently and cheaply inundated with mass-produced ova for decades, and all of them are predominantly produced from static ... More >>

Read This Now (or Don't): Josh Ozersky's "Are Foodie Kids the Sign of End Times?"

The headline of Josh Ozersky's April 4 Time broadside "Are Foodie Kids the Sign of End Times?" is so weird it almost made us choke on these morels and white asparagus tips in abalone dashi we're scarfing down for breakfast. To keep it brief, Ozersky thinks that there is a trend of kids getting too ... More >>

Guinness and Ice Cream for St. Patrick's Day: A Recipe for Stout Float

I don't know if a stout float is an Irish dessert but it doesn't really matter, as Saint Patrick's Day celebrations aren't really Irish anyway. A beer float can be awesome, and when done right, it's the perfect creamy-sweet refresher after the traditional American-Irish, salty dinner of corned beef ... More >>

5 Super Bowl Food Commercials Worth Seeing (Sort Of)

Screenshot of the Dannon Oikos Greek Yogurt Commercial​Whether you tuned in to cheer on the New York Giants or the New England Patriots, wanted to see Madonna lip-sync or loved the excuse of eating tons of tailgate-type food on this unofficial holiday, Super Bowl Sunday also gave us some memor ... More >>

Menu for CITY Night at Border Grill Announced

Earlier this week we told you about CITY Night at Border Grill -- a special event at which Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken will indulge the nostalgia of their 1980s glory days by serving a menu inspired by their first restaurant, City Cafe and its subsequent incarnation, CITY. Today, the menu wa ... More >>

Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

Sweet, savory and in between

The Escondite: Burgers, Beer A Downtown View of Skidrowkyo

D. Solomonburger​Despite its name, The Escondite -- "hideout" in Spanish -- isn't that hard to find. It sits on the southeast corner of S. San Pedro and Boyd Streets on the border between Little Tokyo and Skid Row. (Owners Erin Carnes and Brian Traynam call the location "Skidrowkyo.") What' ... More >>

Best United Nations on a Breakfast Plate

Leave it to the cooks of Turkey to prove how well we really can all get along via a single plate of food. As perfected at House Café on Beverly Blvd., the Turkish breakfast -- kahvalti -- has something for everyone, seemingly from every nearby country. The composed dish has small portions of French ... More >>

The Year in Food Recalls

It was a bad year for orange fruit (papayas, cantaloupes) and leafy greens (especially romaine). Ground turkey took a big hit (36 million pounds recalled), and raw milk products were pulled from shelves. Here's a look back at 2011 in food recalls, a year of E. coli conundrums, Listeria hysteria and ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Saint Estephe Menu at Rivera

Best Frito Pie Served In The Bag

Briana ValdezComal's Frito Pie in a Bag​ There is a staple of liquor stores, street fairs, school cafeterias and tailgate parties in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma (but not so much in Los Angeles, yet) that involves a snack-sized bag of Fritos, a heaping ladle of Hormel chili, maybe some day-g ... More >>

Super Secret Grilled Cheese Ingredient Revealed: Or, WTF Is A Miven?

Anna WooMolten Marshmallow Peep Guts​One thing is for sure: the husband and wife team of attorney Brian Beecher and schoolteacher Crystal Beecher, a/k/a, "The Mivens" won't ever tell you what the hell their secret ingredient, "Mivens" is, no matter how insistently you beg, threaten, wheedle a ... More >>

No-Cook Recipe: Chilled Momotaro Tomato Salad California Olive Oil

Susan ParkMomotaro Tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms​ We're not wild about most tomato varieties. We find them either too bland and hard, or too acidic for our tastes. This has been an enduring issue since childhood. But last weekend we bought half a dozen Momotaro tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms at ... More >>

A Recipe from Clifford Wright: Gomser Cholera

Clifford A. WrightGomser Cholera, a Swiss potato and cheese pie ​ Clifford Wright is a James Beard award winning author and culinary instructor at Venice Cooking School with New York Times columnist Martha Rose Shulman. He's been widely hailed as the foremost English speaking expert on Medit ... More >>

Chilled Cucumber Summertime Soup: A Recipe

J. Kelleychilled cucumber soup​ Simple, elegant and slightly old fashioned, this chilled puree of cucumbers could be just the recipe for adding a little polish to casual summertime meals. Cold and smooth, cucumber-clean with hints of garlic and green onion, it's a versatile refresher that gets ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets.

Top 10 Hollywood Bowl Picnic Essentials

JgarbeeLaker Bakers, Homemade Baguettes Russian River Chardonnay ​Last weekend's JazzFest marked the unofficial launch of the Hollywood Bowl summer season (it officially begins this Friday). Along with that much-needed dose of Dianne Reeves comes a reminder that it is once again time to poli ... More >>

I Want to Be Tomatoed: Marky Ramone Shills Pasta Sauce

When we think of The Ramones, we think: spaghetti. You don't? You might now. Last year Marky Ramone, the last living member and former drummer of the legendary punk band, launched his own private-label pasta sauce, and he's shilling it at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills tomorrow. Yes, every wo ... More >>

Nine Degrees of Food & Wine: 9 Academic Food Programs

UW Digital Collections​Does your "I'm-running-away-from-home" daydream involve the countryside and small batch goat cheese or building a giant copper still in an industrial warehouse space? Maybe it's time to take the first step towards making that dream a reality, and maybe the way to go is t ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Fig & Olive

Cookbook Review: Teen Cuisine A Teen (Tween?) Friendly Oatmeal Cookie Recipe

​Parent or not, we all know a teenager who could use a kick to get their ass into the kitchen. Teen Cuisine by Matthew Locricchio could be that book. Or not, depending on how much those kids have already spent in the kitchen during their Tween Tribune reading years. We would argue that Tween A ... More >>

Flatiron Truck Brings "Farm-to-Street" Food to L.A.

courtesy of Flatiron Truck​ You can't exactly serve farm-to-table food when there's no table involved, so the new Flatiron Truck, which joined the masses of L.A. food trucks on March 5th, has dubbed their cuisine "farm-to-street." The latest endeavor from Chef Timothy Mark Abell, who's worked ... 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 >>

Cookbook Review (Sort Of): Or How The Nordic Diet Leads To Horses In The Sky

flickr user browners82Chicken With Baked Rhubarb From The Nordic Diet​ There are those moments in life when what you intended to do - say, review a cookbook - turn you on to something else entirely. Such is the case when flipping through The Nordic Diet by Trina Hahnemann, a slim paperback tou ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Jamie Lauren's White Anchovy Bruschetta

A. Trachta​In our two part interview with Top Chef contestant Jamie Lauren, who recently took over as Executive Chef at Beechwood in Venice, told us in Part 1 of her interview how she changed everything on the menu upon arrival. (Except for the edamame and "those goddamn sweet potato fries.") ... More >>

Celebrity Chef Scandals: Pastry Dude Pleads in Plot to Pop Wife His Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

​One of the more twisted stories in fooddom came to a near-close today when Juan-Carlos Cruz, the former Calorie Commando host on the Food Network, pleaded no contest to the charge that he solicited three homeless men at the Santa Monica Promenade to rub out his wife, Jennifer Campbell. Sen ... More >>

Oregon Style: The Tasting Kitchen

Communal, unorthodox and somewhat Italian

Chef Family Recipes: Warren Schwartz's Mom On The Westside Tavern Chef Her Coconut Cake Recipe

Your mom's spaghetti recipe is the best, right? Well, maybe second to your own pasta alla bolognese. But what about chefs? Do they really dig their mom's meatloaf and apple pie? We thought we would ask around to find out. Enter a new series, Chef Family Recipes. Honest answers required. Up first, W ... More >>

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