David Lentz

Top 3 Weekend Food Events: Baltimore Pit Beef BBQ, Early St. Paddy's Pub Crawl the Jewish Connection to Chocolate

Jews on the Chocolate Trail Rabbi Deborah R. Prinz will share the history of Jews in the early chocolate trade, including tales of "how Jews, pre-Columbians, Catholics and Protestants all connected through chocolate's religious rituals and narratives." Prinz also will sign copies of her new book, O ... More >>

5 Essential Restaurants With Great Cocktails

As you may or may not have noticed, our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out this week. Over the next few days we'll be highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Cocktails! There are a ton of restaurants on our list with fantastic cocktail programs, so make sure you check ... More >>

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A.O.C. Reopens Suzanne Goin's Balinese Suckling Pig

When Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, Tavern) announced late last year that they were closing their wine and small plates restaurant A.O.C. to reopen in a different location, we might normally assume a months-long transition period, while we all waited for permits and whatnot and dreamt nos ... More >>

11 Great L.A. Chefs Tell Us Their Holiday Food Traditions

For the past couple of weeks, we've been talking to L.A. chefs about their holday food traditions. Here's a roundup of all of those great chefs and what they do for the holidays, food-wise, plus a couple of extras thrown in for good measure.

Chefs Cook At Home, The Holiday Edition: The Hungry Cat's David Lentz

This week and next, we'll be featuring the holiday food traditions of L.A. chefs. Today, The Hungry Cat's David Lentz tells us about his traditions with his wife, chef Suzanne Goin. "For Christmas eve, Suzanne and I have had a great tradition of going for lunch at Spago. I think we've been doing it ... 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 >>

Where the Chefs Eat: The Hungry Cat's David Lentz

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, David Lentz, chef and owner of The Hungry Cat, tells us his favorite spot to eat these days. Like many chefs we speak to for this series, David Lentz is pressed for time. ... More >>

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade: A Recap of the 2012 Event

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Stand is arguably the premier charity auction/food and wine event raising money -- a lot of money -- for pediatric cancer research. Hosted by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern) and David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), it was held for the third year in a row ... More >>

The Chef's Library, David Lentz A Return To Cooking by Eric Ripert

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to David Lentz, chef and owner of The Hungry Cat. "I truly that cooking is spontaneous, and I think that my cooking is spontaneous...you are influenced (or should be) by your ... 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 >>

10 Best French Fries in Los Angeles

Revisiting the french fry, which we have already exhaustively sampled in the past, is a particular beast. The ongoing casualization of restaurants means straightforward, beloved classics are the order of the day in a greater number of places than was the case just a couple years ago. So on top of fe ... More >>

10 Best Seafood Restaurants in Los Angeles

With all the talk in our culture of locavorism, sometimes the noise of that discussion can have the odd effect of drowning out one our region's signature wild food sources. We do live in a coastal city, after all, and stretching back millenia inhabitants of the Los Angeles area have sustained themse ... More >>

The Hungry Cat Celebrates Its 7th Birthday Tonight: With Oysters, Natch

David Lentz's The Hungry Cat opened seven years ago, a little ode to New England seafood shacks located in what might be the antithesis of a breezy seaside town: in a tiny courtyard off of Vine between the smoggy nightmares that are Hollywood and Sunset Boulevards, kitty corner from a now-defunct Bo ... More >>

Q & A With Suzanne Goin: Chefs Move to Schools Fundraiser, Knocking on Ma Maison's Door Obama's Secret Service Detail

When you cross the beautiful threshold of Lucques, Suzanne Goin's Melrose Avenue restaurant, her first -- of now many, including A.O.C., Tavern and the recently opened The Larder at Maple Drive -- you are at once reminded of how profoundly relevant both that restaurant and, more importantly, the che ... More >>

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Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Temecula Wine Harvest, Vegan Cupcake Contest, LA Loves Alex's Lemonade, Creative Seeds, Marc Vetri Dinner

Guzzle & NoshTemecula wine country.​Temecula Wine Harvest Celebration Visit more than 30 Temecula Valley wineries (yes, some of them make very good wine: Hart, Doffo and Renzoni, to name a few) during this two-day annual harvest celebration and barrel tasting. WHERE: Temecula Valley WHEN: Nov ... More >>

Finally, An A.O.C. Cookbook, A Preview Curried Cauliflower Recipe Suzanne Goin & David Lentz's Cooking Channel Debut

Eatocracy.cnn.comSuzanne Goin​If you are a devout Sunday Supper at Lucques fan (the printed version), you have probably wondered, as most of us have, when that A.O.C. Winebar cookbook follow-up is going to finally going to happen? Impossible as it is to believe, Goin's first cookbook was print ... More >>

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Our 55 favorites and where to find them

dineLA Restaurant Week Returns

Anne Fishbeinbaby artichokes with buffalo mozzarella, watercress and goji berries at Fig​ If you're one of the few noble people who's actually kept your New Year's resolution, get ready to face a major hurdle. In just a few weeks, dineLA's Restaurant Week returns for its sixth season, serving ... More >>

Q & A With Jason Travi, Part 2: Flipflops at Spago, Food Trucks Why Every Chef Should Gas Up With Fryer Oil

A. ScattergoodJason Travi at Firefly​ When we left off talking to Jason Travi, the chef was discussing the relative merits of being a third generation chef, why he didn't start cooking until the comparatively ancient age of 15, and how his father didn't want him working in the family business. ... More >>

Just Your Average Chef Fest in an Historic Landmark National Park Hotel: Yosemite Chefs' Holidays at the Ahwahnee

Chris AndreChefs' winter wonderland: the dining room at the Ahwanee.​ For those who want to experience our country's natural treasures but aren't the camping type, here is the event for you. The 26th annual Yosemite Chefs' Holidays series of chef demonstrations, presentations, dinners, recepti ... More >>

Your Hungry Cat Expansion Update: David Lentz to Open THC #3 in Santa Monica

Anne Fishbeinlobster at The Hungry Cat​ The Hungry Cat, David Lentz's decidedly more upscale and cocktail-oriented version of a Maryland fish house, will expand to Santa Monica. Eater reports that Lentz will take over the old Brass Cap location by Giorgio Baldi near the Pacific Coast Highway. ... More >>

LA Chefs' New Year's Resolutions

As the final hours of 2009 tick away, Angelenos dash off their New Year's resolutions like grocery lists. Food lovers are known to promise eating better and exercising more, but what to do the food makers of our city decree on New Years? We checked in with some of our city's top chefs to find out ... More >>

Top 10 Christmas Dining Options If You're Going Out This Year, For Whatever Reason

Because your mother-in-law is critical of your cooking. Because your mother-in-law always burns the roast. Because you've been finding Pepperidge Farm bread crumbs scattered about your kitchen since Thanksgiving. Because this year you just don't have time. For whatever reason you're not cooking or ... More >>

Halloween at The Hungry Cat A White Zombie Recipe

Tomorrow The Hungry Cat goes all South Pacific for Halloween, with a special Tiki holiday menu. The folks at David Lentz' Hollywood restaurant (he also has a Hungry Cat in Santa Barbara), justly famous for its cocktails, will be mixing Mai Tais and White Zombies for the occasion. For dinner they'll ... More >>

Food Games: ID Your Dinner, No Blindfold Required

When I was in high school, our science teacher would take us out into the woods, blindfold us (no Blair Witch Project jokes, please) and turn us loose amid the trees to see if we could identify each one by the feel of the bark, the shape of the leaves. Yeah, it sounds odd, even creepy, but boy was i ... More >>

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