David Myers

22 Mother's Day Food Drink Specials (Bottomless Mimosas! Cupcakes! Tiaras!!)

Mother's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you haven't gotten that one figured out yet, maybe it's time to start planning. Depending on your age and demographic, a crayoned card could work, or maybe your kid's card and a stiff drink. If you want something a bit more professional, turn the page for a ... More >>

Hinoki and the Bird Review: The Sweet Smell of Success

David Myers' new Century City restaurant is a triumph of the senses

This Week's Review, The Condensed Version: Hinoki and The Bird

This week, the restaurant review considers Hinoki and the Bird, the new Century City restaurant from David Myers. We urge you to read the full review, but you can read the vital-stats-only version below:

Weird World of Wine: A News Round-Up

Slate: The William Koch lawsuit over counterfeit wine sparks a look at how a $10,000 bottle of wine is a show of "prestige, rarity and age" and not necessarily of quality. NPR: New Jersey winemakers are seeking to formalize a geographical label of sorts -- Outer Coastal Plain -- to circumvent stere ... More >>

Behind the Wine List: David Myers' Hinoki & The Bird

A restaurant is in many ways like a party: You need atmosphere, music, good food and choice of drink. At the recently opened Hinoki & the Bird in Century City, the party is in full swing: entrance jammed, bar, dining room and patios full, and the cocktails and wine are equally flowing. Begin with ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: 10 Restaurant Picks From Hinoki & The Bird's David Myers

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 we talk to Hinoki & The Bird and Comme Ca chef David Myers. Burgers, Japanese comfort food, high end modernist cuisine -- David Myers covers quite a lot of ground with his ... More >>

Cooking With Charcoal: At Hinoki & the Bird and ink., the Coal Is in Your Food, Not Underneath it

In Japan, a restaurant recently served an entire tasting menu of dirt -- dirt soup, dirt dressing, dirt risotto ... you get the idea. At Copenhagen's Noma (aka the Best! Restaurant! in the WORLD!!) you will eat burnt hay in any number of ways: coating tubes of leeks in a layer of black ash, accompa ... More >>

The Chef's Library: Hinoki & The Bird's David Myers on His Favorite Cookbooks

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, David Myers, chef at the newly opened Hinoki & The Bird, tells us about his favorite books. Washoku by Elizabeth Andoh: "I love that this book captures the essence of Japanese home coo ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre L.A. Restaurant Overview

On a recent episode of his podcast "Go Fork Yourself," Andrew Zimmern -- host of the Bizarre Foods series -- reveals his list of Los Angeles restaurant picks in something less sensational than we've come to expect from the Travel Channel guide to unfamiliar foods around the world. In fact, it's so s ... More >>

Hinoki & The Bird Opens Tonight: David Myers' New Century City Restaurant

If you've caught yourself driving by the old location of Sona on La Cienega since chef-owner David Myers closed it in May of 2010, thinking wistfully of the Japanese-inspired dishes that Myers and former Sona chef de cuisine Kuniko Yagi dreamt up in that late, oft-lamented kitchen, you maybe need to ... More >>

10 Best L.A. Restaurants That Closed in 2012: An Elegy in 10 Parts

The conclusion of every year is a time to catalog both beginnings and endings, to look back over what exactly happened in the twelve months now drawing to a close. Which means that we're getting a lot of lists -- thank you, David Letterman -- as we calibrate and recalibrate, and remember, or try to, ... More >>

Top Chef Seattle Cheftestants Announced

Bravo announced this morning that Top Chef Season 10 "will be coming to you shortly," that it was filmed in Seattle, and revealed the identity of the season's contestants. Judges this season will be Deadpan-Padma and Tough-Tom, of course, as well as Gail Simmons and Hugh Acheson. Wolfgang Puck will ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

L.A. Food & Wine Festival: Rosé, Ribs, and Summer Heat

After a weekend filled with many bottles of rosé and short rib sliders, the second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival wrapped up Sunday afternoon at L.A. Live after four days of chef-driven tastings, demos, samplings and other events that featured some of the top culinary talents in the countr ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Food and Wine, Sunland Watermelon Festival, Lucques Rib Roundup Ecuadorian Parade

2nd Annual L.A. Food & Wine Festival With nearly 40 events over four days in Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills and downtown, the LAFW looks to be one of the city's most ambitious food festivals. More than 150 chefs, including David Myers, Michael Voltaggio, Mark Peel, Michael Mina and Charles P ... More >>

At Mezze, Chef Micah Wexler Nails a Menu of Creative, Middle Eastern-Inspired Dishes

L.A. Chefs Can't Get Any Respect From New York Publishers. Could Comme Ca's David Myers Break the Curse?

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: TEDx: Food, Soba Movie Night, Cupcake Challenge, Burger Night, A Cook's Tour to Mexico

Guzzle & NoshAn entrant at a previous Cupcake Challenge.​TEDxSantaMonica The theme at this month's smartypants gathering is food, specifically how local Santa Monicans are transforming their community. After cocktails and mingling, there will be a discussion with chef and radio host Evan Kleim ... More >>

Comme Ca: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Best Week Ever

David Myers Update: More Pizza Coming to Hollywood

L. Balla​Sit back and think for a moment -- where's the best artisanal pizza in the heart of Hollywood? And we don't mean Mozza down on Melrose and Highland, but closer to Hollywood and Vine. Right. Well, by this time next year, there will be a version of David Myers' Costa Mesa Italian restau ... More >>

Don't Be a Mayo Swoosher 99 Other Tips from Chefs

Food Network​The May 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine claims to give you the "100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of All Time!)." These are the "greatest" tips, presumably, because they come courtesy of "the top chefs in the country." Los Angeles represents well, with a number of our city's chefs ... More >>

Mezze: Opening Next Month in the Former Sona Location

L. Balla​ There should be a show like Moving Up for restaurants, where the former tenants of a space get a peek at what the new tenants have done, and comment on it. Mezze would be at the top of our list for screen time. The new Mediterranean restaurant, slated to open next month in the form ... More >>

You're Not the Only One Who Can't Pronounce Saveur

How do you pronounce SAVEUR? from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo. As we reported, this month's issue of Saveur is full of culinary suggestions from some of the world's greatest chefs (including a few of L.A.'s own like Sang Yoon and David Myers.) It's a compelling read, but the magazine's difficult-to-pronoun ... More >>

Musical Bakery Chairs: Changes at Röckenwagner

A. Scattergoodpretzels and pastries in the case at Röckenwagner Santa Monica​ Hans Röckenwagner (3 Square, Röckenwagner Santa Monica Bakery/Café, Röckenwagner Mar Vista Bakery) not only makes many of his own tables and chairs -- he's an expert carpenter -- but these days he's moving them ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Sona To Close This Saturday

SonaSona's interior​ This picture of Sona's empty interior is symbolic, as the restaurant will close its doors for good after dinner service this Saturday night. So if you want to check out David Myers' flagship restaurant, you have exactly three more nights to do it. Or at least this incarnat ... More >>

BREADBAR Hatchi Series Continues With Sona Chef de Cuisine Kuniko Yagi

BREADBAR​David Myers' Sona may be temporarily shutting its doors soon, but Sona's chef de cuisine Kuniko Yagi is not only still cooking at the restaurant -- which is open until May -- but she's popping up elsewhere too. Next Thursday, March 25, Yagi will be the guest chef of BREADBAR Century C ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/8 - 3/12

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It is hard to overestimate the appeal of a good hog in this town, the charismatic pull of a whole roasted animal with crisp skin and heat-singed ears, an apple jammed gaily between its teeth." Hog Heaven at The Gorbals ... More >>

Dinner at the Best Chef's Table In Town: What Would 20 of L.A.'s Top Chefs Dream Up?

Imagine gathering twenty of LA's top chefs -- in one cramped restaurant kitchen -- to cook up a 50-person thank you dinner for a beloved longtime customer. No egos allowed. On the chefs' night off. Free of charge. Oh, and each chef must agree on the menu. Not going to happen? It did. The secret, ... More >>

Q & A With Joseph Mahon, Part 2: Cooking to Pantera, Dealing with Food Allergies No Bastide Library Book Carts

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Bastide chef Joseph Mahon, the chef talked about his road to the kitchen of Joe Pytka's newly-reopened Melrose Avenue restaurant, his time at the CIA (that would be the Culinary Institute of America, not our national spy shop) and his previous life in ... More >>

Q & A With Joseph Mahon: The Bastide Chef on His 16-Course Try-out, the CIA Why He Once Quit the Business

When Bastide reopened, after a year-long hiatus, a month ago, it was with a recalibrated feel (it's also a bookstore, of all things) and a new chef. Joseph Mahon joined the impressive list of chefs who have helmed Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant, a catalog that reads like a Michelin inspector's ... More >>

New Year's Eve Dining Roundup: Because 2012 is Only Two Years Away

January 1st will be the time for resolutions. For losing weight. For spending less money, and more time with your family. For getting a job, or quitting one. Yes, January 1st you will start again. And that's good. Because tonight, December 31st, New Year's Eve, from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m., the lovely peop ... More >>

Q & A With Thomas Keller, Part 2: The Best Meal He Ever Cooked, The Importance of Fernand Point Lightbulb Moments

Deborah JonesChef Thomas Keller​Thomas Keller's Los Angeles Bouchon Bistro, which opens a week from tonight, will serve the same menu, more or less, as his other two Bouchons, in Yountville and Las Vegas. But Keller says that even though the menu has stayed pretty much the same, the space has ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/24 - 10/30

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It was horrible. Even a shot of sake and a glass of beer didn' remove the taste."

Bastide Update (or Not): The Doors Remain Closed

Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodThe locked doors at Bastide​Anybody who's ever read Roald Dahl's classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remembers the defining moment when we learn that the factory is a cypher, the owner absent, the doors perhaps permanently closed. "Nobody eve ... More >>

Thursday-is-Still-the-New-Friday Agenda: Hatchi Series at Breadbar, "Juniper in June" at Ammo, Simon L.A.'s 3rd Anniversary

In an ever-changing world, Breadbar is still into chef's series that give traveling talents a temporary place to hang their toques. The Third Street location is already home to LudoBites, and the "Hatchi" guest chef pro ... More >>

Food's Big Night Out: Not Such a Big Night for Los Angeles at the James Beard Awards

Jessica RitzThe scene at Avery Fisher Hall, with Ted Allen in the mix. The James Beard Foundation Awards is the Big Night Out for an industry that's all about nights out. Cooks, writers, restaurateurs, sommeliers, and others in the service of making great food and interpreting it for a hungry public ... More >>

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Restaurants for Wine Lovers

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

Top 10 Dishes of 2007

Hummus replaced foie gras, Southern Thai was hot and cheese shredded

I Can has Cheezburger?

Comme Ça - finally, a brasserie Made for L.A.

West Hollywood and Vicinity

Tonally Correct

Truth Without Borders

Conversations with Grandpa about Israel and Palestine