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May 25, 2012
Downtown L.A.'s Urban Food Crawl: Not Just For Vegans
Unless you live in some sort of vegan utopia where all your friends are herbivores (or Portland), it's almost a guarantee that dining out with meat-eating friends is going to be a disappointment for at least one of the parties involved. Either the vegan eats a bland salad at a steakhouse or the carn ... More >>
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May 24, 2012
Pulling Off the White Tablecloth
In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.
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May 24, 2012
10 Best Handmade Chinese Noodle Restaurants in Los Angeles
There are few things in life better than a bowl of authentic and properly-constructed handmade noodles. Even in the San Gabriel Valley, it's hard to come across a noodle place with the real thing, made by a seasoned chef trained in China. We've encountered some: Kam Hong Garden from Shanxi, Sweethom ... More >>
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May 23, 2012
The Coolest Video on How to Make Vietnamese Coffee You'll Ever See
We owe a lot to coffee -- even this post itself is essentially the end result of a rather strong cup of the black stuff. That's probably why this video really got our percolators flowing: a slick and visually compelling recipe for café sua da, the potent and caffeine-heavy French roast beverage s ... More >>
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May 21, 2012
The Google Cafe: A Look Inside the Venice Binoculars
There is a somewhat mythical place where engineers and food obsessives converge. A place that isn't exactly a club, nor is it a restaurant, but it is Fort-Knox level difficult to get in to and they certainly do serve pretty terrific food. For free. It's the offices of Google. And if you like to eat, ... More >>
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May 21, 2012
100: Lukshon's Dan Dan Noodles
Everybody likes a countdown, whether it's for the foie gras ban or NASA's new privatized space industry. Today we're beginning another one, this time to mark our 100 favorite dishes from Los Angeles restaurants. Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, i ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Q & A With Joel Stein: The "Intolerable Foodie" on Organics, Foodie Culture Man Food
Readers of Joel Stein's column in Time Magazine may remember when Stein hobnobbed with the super-rich over bottles of wine valued more than $5,000 each. The night he sampled dishes in the Alinea kitchen inspired by Escoffier's 1903 cookbook. Or the time he gobbled up KFC's Double Down sandwich, made ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Nyesha Arrington: The Island Girl
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. It's hard to imagine upon meeting her, but Nyesha Arrington -- warm, friendly, quick to laughter -- used to be a thrower. Pans, mostly. But though she still works 14 hours a da ... More >>
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May 18, 2012
Jonathan Waxman Serves 'Foods of Baja' at Rosa Mexicano
Baja California is very hot right now. Just ask Anthony Bourdain, The New Yorker, or Dwell. Now chef Jonathan Waxman, cookbook author, chef/owner of Barbuto in NYC, and culinary consultant for Rosa Mexicano, is debuting his "Foods of Baja" menu at the restaurant's West Hollywood and L.A. Live locat ... More >>
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May 17, 2012
Finally: L.A. Gets Mexican Food Worthy of Mexico's Grand Tradition
Baja California is very hot right now. Just ask Anthony Bourdain, The New Yorker, or Dwell. Now chef Jonathan Waxman, cookbook author, chef/owner of Barbuto in NYC, and culinary consultant for Rosa Mexicano, is debuting his "Foods of Baja" menu at the restaurant's West Hollywood and L.A. Live locat ... More >>
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May 17, 2012
Eat This Now: Dragons' Whiskers Salad Specialty Vegetables at Cafe Fusion
It's a great time to eat at Café Fusion. May officially kicks off dragons' whiskers salad season at the eight-year-old Taiwanese restaurant, and it also marks the seasonal arrival of locally grown baby bamboo shoots, yam leaves and other produce you rarely see elsewhere. The restaurant attained ... More >>
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May 16, 2012
Tar Pit Migration: A Pop-up Tavern at Campanile
When the Tar Pit, Mark Peel's swank watering hole on La Brea Avenue, closed in early March (the victim of a rent dispute), the restaurant's booths, banquettes, bar and barstools, as well as kitchen contents and a trove of glamorous props, all went into storage, awaiting a relaunch. No word yet on wh ... More >>
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May 15, 2012
Lotería Opens (Again) on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica
Lotería pulled a sneaky stunt, opening in Santa Monica without telling a soul. But how could the fifth location of this Mexican chain not open on the fifth day of the fifth month of the year, which, as you of course know, was Cinco de Mayo? The official first day was to be May 14, but Jimmy Shaw, ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Congregation Ale House: A Sip At The Gastropub's New Pasadena Altar
Much as we are Beer Church believers, our drive-by impression of Congregation Ale House's latest branch across from Pasadena's Central Park was hardly revelatory. The freestanding building is boxy and rather shiny, a little too carefully designed in that chain restaurant or mega-church sort of way. ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
A Primer of Dining Venue Terms, From Secret Supper Club to Pop-up Restaurant
A restaurant is a place where people pay to eat meals. That applies to all the variations: café, bistro, diner, pizza parlor, gastropubs, etc. We all know what we're getting when we go to one of those versus another. But what about all the off-the-grid dining establishments? What can you expect w ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Mother's Day Flowchart: Where to Take Your Mom for Brunch
Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year, or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18 years thereafter. In either case, there are many, many restaurants and eateries ce ... More >>
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May 10, 2012
Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu
The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Josef Centeno's Bar Amá Coming This Fall
Most diners at Bäco Mercat have probably tried to guess chef Josef Ceneno's upbringing from what they see on their plates. Jonathan Gold has observed that the menu mixes "flavors from Italy, France, and Western China, Georgia (U.S.) and Georgia (eastern Europe), Tuscany and Peru." In fact, the chef ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe Pops Up at The Charleston
Angeli Caffe popped up Monday night with the same kitchen crew, the same servers, the same food and Evan Kleiman in charge, just as if it had never closed. Kleiman's Melrose Avenue restaurant closed in January after 27 years of service. This happened at The Charleston in Santa Monica, where managi ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Pedalers Fork Under Construction in Calabasas
Bicyclists will have a new destination this fall when Pedalers Fork restaurant opens in the heart of Old Town Calabasas. Now under construction, the goal is to create a bike-friendly venue, offering food, coffee, drinks, and even bike pharaphernalia, tours and repairs. "We wanted to create a sort o ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
Off the Menu: Mustard Cabbage at Beijing Restaurant
Trying to find a particular Chinese regional or local specialty can be quite an adventure, even among the hundreds of restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley. The search for these items, be it Datong-style braised rabbit heads or Tianjin-style earhole cakes, can produce tales worthy of an explorer. ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
James Beard 2012 Award Winners
The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>
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May 4, 2012
Stuff I Eat: Going Vegan in Inglewood
If vegan and animal rights activists really want to change the way the majority of people eat, they might want to forget those PETA protests where half-naked women dress like tigers and sit in cages all day or those really depressing humane society commercials where slow motion footage of abused dog ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Where to Eat on Cinco de Mayo in Los Angeles: Food, Drink, Party
Every year, we read articles revealing the true origins of Cinco de Mayo. Nope, not Mexican Independence Day, which happens September 16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates a minor battle in the state of Puebla in 1862 where an army of mostly Mexican Indians won against Napoleon III's French troops. The hol ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
April Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings
Adding more raw fish to Sawtelle Boulevard, morinoya is Little Osaka's newest "authentic hole in the wall izakaya," serving tapas dishes including yakitori and oden as well as sushi and sashimi. The Slice Truck is also settling into the area with its first brick and mortar restaurant, fulfilling own ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Food Word Clouds: Pink's Hot Dogs
Today's adventure in food word clouds comes courtesy of Pink's, the hot dog stand (legendary, iconic, fabulous, pick your overused yet applicable adjective) on La Brea. This is not the ordinary menu but the "super specials" menu, from which you can order hot dogs created for actual legends and icons ... More >>
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May 1, 2012
Top 5 Sushi Restaurants in the Valley
One of the hard truths reached while researching our 10 Best Sushi Restaurants list a few weeks ago was that Los Angeles has far too many superb sushi restaurants to ever be condensed into a single list. One area that felt particularly overlooked (with only one entry in the top ten) was the San Fern ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
5 Places to Eat and Drink Around Dodger Stadium
Remember the Dodgers? The baseball team we loved but whose stadium we abandoned because of all that nasty Frank McCourt business? Now that Magic Johnson has gone on and saved the Dodgers, we can all head back out to Chavez Ravine on a lazy weekend afternoon to catch a game or two, baseball gloves ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
10 Best Dim Sum Restaurants in Los Angeles
Los Angeles is a special place. While the rest of America opts for eggs and a mimosa on Sunday mornings, a good portion of Los Angelenos prefer Chinese banquet-style restaurants for their weekly fix of turnip cake and tea. The long impatient lines and lack of parking spaces on Valley Boulevard is pr ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again (And Again)
Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Congratulations to Rene Redzep ... More >>
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April 30, 2012
The Veggie and Fruit Platter at Le Comptoir
You've probably heard some rumblings of the stellar work chef Gary Menes has been putting in after-hours at downtown's Tiara Café -- the former Patina, Palate, and French Laundry alum has quietly been reviving the art of counter-side dining at his pop-up restaurant, which has been running weekend d ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
Mirabelle Update: Chef Michael Bryant, Designer Thomas Schoos Seafood Charcuterie
In Los Angeles, hitting the 40-year mark usually means it's time for a facelift. So when 41-year-old West Hollywood restaurant announced Mirabelle it would be closing for some updates, customers needn't have been shocked. What could rightfully come as surprise, though, is the culinary direction t ... More >>
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April 27, 2012
Food Photography: Herb Ritts, The Black & White Squid Ink Pasta Pairings At The Getty
If you've ever found yourself completely devoid of compelling reasons for a friend to meet you at a museum on a gorgeous, beer-on-the-beach sort of Saturday (the dark galleries are at least air conditioned, the tram to the Getty is sort of fun), you have new food fodder: The Getty Restaurant is serv ... More >>
Eat+Drink
April 26, 2012
Phil Rosenthal, Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, on His Journey Through the World of Food
If you've ever found yourself completely devoid of compelling reasons for a friend to meet you at a museum on a gorgeous, beer-on-the-beach sort of Saturday (the dark galleries are at least air conditioned, the tram to the Getty is sort of fun), you have new food fodder: The Getty Restaurant is serv ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Are Your Plates Making You Fat?
Can the color of your plates make you eat more or less food? Yes, according to new research done at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Lab director Dr. Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Dr. Koert van Ittersum discovered that diners served themselves more food when there was little contrast between the color of ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Our Next Meal: Got Kosher Cafe
Never mind molecular gastronomy. When you bite into Tunisian-style brik a l'oeuf at Got Kosher Cafe you experience one of the world's great feats of culinary alchemy. Stab into the crunchy, paper-thin crepe (called malsouqua) and the runny egg yolk oozes out, enriching both the potato chip-crisp p ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
Bizarra Capital: Beyond the Border
Uptown Whittier can sometimes feel deliberately hidden -- a small stretch of mom 'n' pop businesses sequestered from any nearby freeway or convenient access. It's a fine example of late-'80s public planning, too -- a time when a penchant for Spanish Revival and mismatched pastels gave way to its no ... More >>
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April 24, 2012
The Orange Blossom: A Cocktail From the More Civilized LA A Recipe
There is another LA, one where the restaurant food is phenomenal. The flavors are exquisite, the portions proper (neither "bite-sized" nor spilling over the edges of the plate), the prices reasonable and the settings glorious. Further, it is a place where you may get a gourmet meal accompanied by a ... More >>
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April 23, 2012
Food Word Clouds: Animal The Joy of Foie Gras
Today's food word cloud is of this month's menu from Animal, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's Fairfax Avenue restaurant. Look closely and you get a quick idea of what makes the restaurant so much fun: poutine and oxtail, fondue and Spam. You can also see how important foie gras has been to the place, an ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Yelp Introduces Yelpy Insights: Find, or Avoid, Places Vegetarians and 20-Somethings Like
Thirty-something vegetarian looking for restaurants that other 30-something vegetarians also enjoy? Now, there's a Yelp for that: The site recently rolled out two new filters called "Yelpy Insights," which narrow search results based on eateries "liked by vegetarians," as well as those liked by 20- ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
10 Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.: Happy Earth Day
Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22, and regardless of where you stand on the dietary spectrum, consider curbing your carbon footprint with a meal free of animal by-products. Non-profit organization Environmental Working Group found that eating one less burger per week for a year equates to reducing ... More >>
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April 20, 2012
Food News Roundup: New Farm Food Bill, Gluten-Free Restaurants Dario Cecchini at Valentino
The Associated Press via the Washington Post: A new farm and food bill is in the works, but it faces an uphill battle. Gilt Taste: More chefs learn to cook without gluten. Daily Dish: A recap of Dario Cecchini's visit to Valentino last night. Loud and meaty.
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April 18, 2012
Taqueria Cuernavaca: Land of Eternal Spring
If you didn't initially order the taco al pastor at Taqueria Cuernavaca, surely you will after the trip to the salsa bar. Because while loading the small plastic cups with salsa and a few dark, dark red chiles de árbol, you'll probably glance into the kitchen. And in said kitchen, you'll spot meat ... More >>
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April 17, 2012
Tax Day Deals to Mark the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat
It's Tax Day, one of a few days this Election Year that you'll likely be remotely interested in tearing apart the finer parts of the so-called Buffett Tax and seeing how it would have directly affected you, or not. At least, that interest will hold for a few seconds, until you've stared at your sad ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood
Reading Charlotte Silver's new memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood is like being in an art museum, gazing at images of another time and place. And that's what Silver, 31, had in mind when she wrote this remembrance of her early years growing up in her mother's four-star ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Eat This Now: Lamb Sandwich ("Fried with Meat") at Beijing Restaurant
While it isn't as prevalent as pork, lamb turns up quite often on Chinese restaurant menus in the San Gabriel Valley, where lamb dishes range from the seemingly omnipresent cumin lamb skewers to soups, stews and meat pies. There also are restaurants like China Islamic and Omar's, the Uighur place, ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
AU 79 Expanding To Pasadena
Arcadia-based tea house AU 79 Tea House is now expanding. The Taiwanese boba restaurant is set to open their Pasadena store on Friday, April 20. All drinks will be 50% off on opening day. Named AU 79 Tea Express, the new shop is located just across the street from Pasadena City College. "We want to ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
10 Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches in Los Angeles
What is a grilled cheese sandwich? It's comfort food. It's warm and retro-yet-now and endlessly customizable. It's something that can be low-brow, high-end and everything in-between. How is it defined? For the purposes of this guide, we're saying a grilled cheese is a vegetarian sandwich that's ser ... More >>
Eat+Drink
April 12, 2012
L.A. Chefs Can't Get Any Respect From New York Publishers. Could Comme Ca's David Myers Break the Curse?
What is a grilled cheese sandwich? It's comfort food. It's warm and retro-yet-now and endlessly customizable. It's something that can be low-brow, high-end and everything in-between. How is it defined? For the purposes of this guide, we're saying a grilled cheese is a vegetarian sandwich that's ser ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
5X5 Collaborative Chef Dinners Begin April 29
From late April to September, a few of L.A.'s most acclaimed restaurants will offer a six-course tasting menu at $150 per person, not including wine pairings. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Special Olympics. If you're so inclined, stop reading and sigh. What else could be so bo-ring and ... More >>
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