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Wolfgang Puck, David Chang and Roy Choi Team Up For Chefs Dinner at Hotel Bel-Air

On June 18, Wolfgang Puck will team up with New York superstar chef David Chang (of Momofuku fame and this year's recipient of the James Beard Outstanding Chef award) and Roy Choi to host a chef's dinner at Wolfgang Puck at the Hotel Bel-Air. The dinner will consist of five courses of Asian-inspir ... More >>

The 2013 James Beard Chef Awards: Los Angeles Gets The Shaft

The James Beard Chef Awards have just wrapped up in New York City, and Los Angeles took home zero awards. It's hard to resist feeling kinda whiny when looking at the list of winners and considering that New York City got 7 awards and accounted for 50% of all the non-region-specific awards (as well ... More >>

UCLA's Science and Food Series: The 2013 Season

If you were among the lucky few who spent many an evening sitting in a UCLA lecture hall last spring, listening raptly as Dave Chang or Rene Redzepi talked about all the crazy stuff they do in their food labs, then it's time to grab your calendar and email the university again. This year, Professor ... More >>

Where Chefs Eat: The Hardcover Version Where Michael Voltaggio Goes for "Stoner Sushi"

Where Chefs Eat, a new book from Phaidon, is a compilation of the eateries worldwide where 400 chefs like to dine (David Chang, Rene Redzepi Eric Ripert, Daniel Boulud, Anita Lo, Fergus Henderson, among them) what they order, and when they like to go (very early, or very late, most likely). Sound fa ... More >>

Hipster Heaven

Cortez might seem like a parody of current food trends -- if only it weren't so good

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 Lessons for Chain Restaurants in 2012: Doritos Tacos Work; Lobster Stuffed Filet Doesn't

It's that time of year when chain restaurants report their year-end earnings and industry rags scramble to report and explain all that went right and wrong for the industry over the past 12 months. People in boardrooms ponder these lessons, and sit around trying to think up ways to gain our business ... More >>

Lucky Rice Night Market Coming to L.A.

Lucky Rice, the New York-based Asian food festival whose "culinary council" includes the like of Anthony Bourdain, David Chang, Marcus Samuelsson, and Masharu Morimoto, is moving out west -- well, further west that is. On the heels of its Las Vegas event back in June, Lucky Rice laid out plans for i ... More >>

88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market

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. 88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market. Kris Yenbamroong's Night Market, a next-door offshoot of West Hollywood's Talesai, has quietly taken on the mantle of ... More >>

Read This Now, or Almost Now: Lucky Peach Issue 4

It is now time for your regular Lucky Peach update. Because we love David Chang as much as you do, perhaps even more so after his recent pit stop at UCLA. (Dinner afterwards? At A-Frame with Jonathan Gold, Peter Meehan, and Amy Rowat, if you keep track of these kinds of things). Because the next ... More >>

David Chang at UCLA: Umami Reverse Engineering The Joy of MSG

So what did David Chang pass around at last night's UCLA science and food lecture? After Rene Redzepi handed out seaweed ice cream at the previous lecture, expectations were perhaps higher than they'd be at a normal university event, where people do not generally get experimental snacks. The Momofuk ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/21 - 5/25

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "If, however, you have neither a backyard nor a grill, you can participate in another great American tradition of finding someone else do the work for you." BBQ Flowchart: Where You Can Be Up to the Grill in Meat. "Noodle m ... More >>

Q & A With Professor Amy Rowat: Food and Science at UCLA, Danish Gastro-physical Societies Experimental Cakes

If you've been attending UCLA's Science & Food lectures, which began in April and continue through next month, you'll know who Professor Amy Rowat is. She's the one who put the series together, whose happy task it was to find sand fleas and an old electric blanket for Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams ... More >>

Q & A With Roy Choi: Slinging Tacos at Midnight, Calling Out Jamie Oliver Choi's Vegetable Moment

On a bench outside Handsome Coffee Roasters in downtown Los Angeles' arts district, after the requisite coffee inside and under the (also requisite) California sun, Roy Choi sat down late last week to talk about, well, lots of things. He wanted a cigarette, or a few of them. He wanted to be close to ... More >>

Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams at UCLA: Seaweed Ice Cream Cricket Sauce

The crowd that gathered last night at UCLA's Moore Hall to hear chefs Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams and Professor Amy Rowat give a lecture on food and science had more fun than is customary at most academic gatherings. Redzepi, the chef and founder of Noma in Copenhagen, and Williams, the head of ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

[Updated] UCLA's Science & Food Series: Or, Why There's A Modernist in Your Soup (or at Your Dinner Table)

Update: The lovely folks at UCLA have just told us that there are still spots available for the June 9 lectures. Maybe go reserve one now. General admission is $20; UCLA students get in free with a valid student ID. This semester is a pretty good time to be a "non-science student" at UCLA: 50 lucky ... More >>

Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 3

​Okay, it's not out just yet, but it's good to get advance warning for some things. (Obama traffic, windstorms, certain NBA point guards.) On March 13th, the third issue of Lucky Peach hits the stands and kitchen counter tops and behind tsukemen bars (where Ikemen keeps theirs). Lucky Peach, ... More >>

10 Food Predictions for 2012

​2011 was quite a year in the Los Angeles dining scene. If you had told us a year ago that we'd be eagerly wolfing down plates of alligator schnitzel, polenta sushi, and corned beef tongue sandwiches from a Michael Voltaggio shop with the word "sack" in its title, we wouldn't have believed you ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: The Art of Living According to Joe Beef's Testicle Pizza Theory A Vienna Sausage (!) Martini Recipe

When we first flipped through The Art of Living According to Joe Beef by Frédéric Morin, David McMillan and Meredith Erickson, we thought it was yet another pretty but also pretty lackluster restaurant cookbook (Joe Beef is Montreal's restaurant du jour). There's even the requisite foreword by a w ... More >>

Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 2

​If your tonkotsu-stained pages of the first issue of Lucky Peach are no longer functioning reasonably well and you're tired of ramen (okay, right), you can get over to your nearest applicable bookstore (or Momofuku restaurant or Whole Foods) and buy a copy of the new food-as-lit magazine. T ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants 2011

Art from the streets: L.A.'s most exciting chefs are reimagining street food, from the ramen bowl to the cheeseburger

Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Jonathan Gold Reviews Moko

And Now, A Brief Message From David Chang

Screenshot of David Chang's Twitter page​

vegetation: planting thoughts: Rene Redzepi Wants to Make Chefs Smarter

aliciazs/flickrThe kitchen at Noma​ Are you a chef or a farmer? Can you fly to Copenhagen in late August? If so, and you act quickly, you can join René Redzepi's club. On the 27th and 28th of that month, the celebrated Noma chef will host vegetation: planting thoughts, an exclusive symposi ... More >>

The New KFC: Korean Fried Chicken

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: You seem to be writing about a lot of Korean restaurants recently. The new KFC is Korean Fried Chicken. I've tried BonChon and Kyochon. While both are good, I have to give the edge to Kyochon, although BonChon gets points for easy pa ... More >>

Q & A With Lucky Peach's Peter Meehan: Drinking Fernet With David Chang The Food Journal As Dartboard

​As you may have heard, Lucky Peach, the quarterly food journal put together by David Chang (Momofuku), Peter Meehan and the folks at Zero Point Zero Production (No Reservations) and published by McSweeney's, debuted yesterday. Ramen. Anthony Bourdain. Ruth Reichl. Harold McGee. More than enou ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/20-6/24

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "But keep in mind, I am not a trained physician -- I'm a guy who likes to justify an occasional shot of sotol or xtabentún." Ask Mr. Gold: Thoughts on Digestifs, or Drinking to Digest. "It's not ... More >>

Lucky Peach: The New Food Journal From David Chang & Friends Is Here

​Lucky Peach, the food quarterly from Momofuku's David Chang, debuted yesterday. It's an enormous amount of fun, as you would expect, kind of like Grand Street crossed with No Reservations. This makes sense once you run down the list of contributors: Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Ruth Reichl ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Lukshon

Anthony Bourdain Joins Writing Team on HBO's Treme

Anthony Bourdain, no stranger to TV, is moving to the other side of the camera.​Under Anthony Bourdain's many writing credits - Kitchen Confidential, Bone in the Throat and Medium Raw, to name a few - we can now add HBO series Treme to that list. As the AVClub reports, via Nola.com, the sharp ... More >>

Foodies: The Web Series (It Was Only A Matter Of Time)

Thanks to Eater and @amateurgourmet for this one. You knew this was coming, right? That at some point the current trend of considering food as, well, a trend rather than a daily requirement would spill over into outright parody. Thank god. Coming March 9th is a web series called Foodies, a dramati ... More >>

Year in Review: Top Food and Pot Stories of 2010

N. GalutenThe famed KFC dispensary, which even spawned a South Park episode​Marijuana has been in the news a lot this year. Prop 19 brought the legalization debate to the national forefront, even though it never had much of a shot at passing (despite our Governator's well-documented use during ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- The Unbearable Heaviness of Cookbooks. [Zester Daily] -- The joy of cooking squirrel. [The Ethicurean] -- Today's federal programs make you long for the Depression. [Mark Bittman] -- Seriously, What Is Up With These Pistachio Ads? [Grub Street] -- Divorce Cakes: 10 Outrageous Confections. [Hu ... More >>

Momofuku Milk Bar by Mail: Top 5 Goodies to Order from the New Online Store

Flickr user roboppyMomofuku Milk Bar​ It was a tweet heard round the world. Just as we were slipping into a post-Halloween funk (no special treats till Thanksgiving?), Christina Tosi, the mad genius behind the gloriously addictive, trademarked treats at Momofuku Milk Bar, cried out via Twitter ... More >>

Q & A With Heirloom-LA's Matthew Poley: Cooking School, The Word 'Chef,' and a Desert Island Meal

J. KoslowMatthew Poley with Tad Weyland​ In the first part of our interview, Matthew Poley discusses his trajectory from washing dishes at Angelini Osteria to cooking in Umbria at Casa Vissani to co-owning the rapidly growing catering company, Heirloom-LA. In this second part, Poley tells us ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>

Go Ask Alice (To Sign Your Book): Alice Waters In Town for A Book Signing

AmazonAlice Waters' latest book​If you're weary of hauling your Prius (or maybe your bicycle) all the way up the 5 to Berkeley to pay homage to Alice Waters, next Saturday you'll have a much shorter commute. Waters will be in town to sign copies of her new book In the Green Kitchen: Techniques ... More >>

Top 10 Food Tumblrs: The World of Tom Selleck Sandwiches

Selleck Waterfall SandwichFeatured Sandwich: Kielbasa​ Tumblr is a blogging platform that bridges the gap between social networks like Twitter or Facebook, and a Word Press or Blogspot blog. It has yet to be utilized for a Presidential campaign or propagate any false celebrity death rumors, b ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Coming to Royce Hall: Yes, Reservations

The Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain, the hazard pay episode​ Tired of getting your Anthony Bourdain fix via the Travel Channel, your demi-glace-stained pages of Kitchen Confidential (or Bone in the Throat, circa 1995), or even, gasp, from the untangled threads of @ruthbourdain? The chef-author ... More >>

W Is for Brasserie

Delphine, on Hollywood's left bank (sorta)

The Best Dishes of 2009

Pig's ears and cocktails and tacos that tweet

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs

-- Where local chefs eat, like in real life. [EAT: Los Angeles] -- Cookbook gifts for cooks (David Chang's Momofuku, etc.). [Daily Dish] -- Vote for the sexiest chef in Los Angeles. (Okay, Govind Armstrong. But actually being in LA is sexy too.) [Eater LA] -- Making mole with Ludo Lefebvre. Or, M ... More >>

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Dosa, Lamb Soup and Squirming Tentacles

While New York and Los Angeles are clearly, very different cities, the outer reaches of both areas have something in common: terrific foods from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. For this week's No Reservations, the crew was focusing on the outer boroughs of New York, and Bourdain seemed legitimat ... More >>

EATING, L.A. STYLE

From Musso & Frank to street vendors

Ask Mr. Gold: The Quintessential Experience for the Out-of-Towner

Dear Mr. Gold: I was in Rome a few months ago and an Italian friend took me out to a great neighborhood pizzeria/ristorante (Pizzeria San Marco). The place was off the tourist trail, not in any guidebooks, but packed with locals, the essence of Rome. Now my friend will be visiting Los Angeles and I' ... More >>

The Korean Taco Justice League: Kogi Rolls Into L.A.

From Rosemead side streets to Venice dive bars, hungry Angelenos have a new way to roll

Playing to Lose

Arnold may be governor, but the world is still a ghetto