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April 11, 2012
Jenny Peng and the Golden Shrimp Tofu Dumpling
Flavor Garden's golden shrimp dumpling was so named for a reason no longer apparent at first glance. At ten to a plate for $6.99, they are plump with tofu, scallions, and fresh shrimp. Reference to ingots that dumplings have traditionally symbolized in Chinese culture notwithstanding, they appear li ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Spain's Elena Arzak Named World's Best Female Chef
Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Fe ... More >>
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April 10, 2012
Chan Dara, Known For its Hot Thai Girl Waitresses, Violated Labor Law, Feds Say
Chan Dara, perhaps the first Asian restaurant in L.A. to capitalize on the hot-chicks-and-chopsticks marketing milieu, is being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor. Yep. The feds say that the Thai-fusion eatery, known for its "half-dressed waitresses" and pervy old white-guy customers, was stiff ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Highland Park Kitchen Opens on York Blvd. What's Happening in Highland Park
Highland Park Kitchen on York Blvd. had been open for only about ten days in early March before a front page L.A. Times article declared Highland Park a soon-to-be "outpost of hipster cool" with York Blvd. its "ground zero." In recent years, the northeast L.A. neighborhood has seen an influx of hip, ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Shanghai Confusion Meat: Adventures in Canned Ham at Shanghai Dumpling House in Monrovia
One of the great things about the abundance of Chinese restaurants in the San Gabriel Valley comes in discovering unique menu items. These can range from hard-to-find distinctive regional dishes to the mundane that simply got lost in translation. When it came to our attention that a restaurant w ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Q & A with Gustavo Arellano: Taco USA, Mexican Authenticity Food Writing
You might suspect Gustavo Arellano, the brain and wit behind the popular syndicated and OC Weekly column ¡Ask a Mexican!, as one of those Mexican food sticklers who bristles at ideas of yellow nacho cheese, the chimichonga, the chicken fajita pita, enchilada combination plates and Taco Bell's 50th ... More >>
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April 5, 2012
Our Tacos, Ourselves: How Southern California Reinvented the Taco
How Southern California discovered, gave birth to, reinvented and loved the taco for more than a century
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April 4, 2012
10 Classic Taiwanese Dishes
Venture into a mom-and-pop Taiwanese restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley and first-timers will undoubtedly be intimidated. The menus read much like those of strictly Chinese restaurants, but it's the subtle and uniquely Formosan dishes that make the experience that much more authentic. Fried tofu ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Plan Check: How is This Restaurant not Like the Others?
Scattered around Los Angeles are restaurants that could be used as examples for teaching kids how to differentiate among objects. "One of these things is not like the others" lessons. Petrillo's on Valley Boulevard in San Gabriel, a solo Italian neighborhood restaurant bobbing up and down in a sea o ... More >>
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April 3, 2012
Food Word Clouds: Wolfgang Puck's Meat Menu at Cut
If you're a vegetarian, this might seem less like a highly curated menu than a do-not-enter sign. If so, no Snake River Farms Wagyu and John Baldessari art for you. But if you're happily carnivorous, then this menu -- the dinner menu from Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills steakhouse Cut -- may read like ... More >>
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March 30, 2012
Tortilla Republic Now Open in WeHo
The owners of Taste restaurants, Morten Kaag, John Halter and Mina Azami, open Tortilla Republic on Robertson Boulevard, replacing Fat Fish. Think fancy Mexican food, homemade tortillas (one would hope) and classy ambiance. Using recipes created by Halter's mother and Tortilla Republic's consulting ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
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 >>
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March 27, 2012
April Bloomfield's A Girl and Her Pig Is Good, But Is It Great?
As far as cookbook anticipation goes, April Bloomfield's new release, A Girl and Her Pig, which hits shelves in early April, ranks right up there on the crispy pig ear salad (p. 85) meter. Is it deserving of the hype? Perhaps. But we're not going there just yet, even though we suspect other Google ... More >>
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March 27, 2012
10 Best Korean BBQ Restaurants in Los Angeles
Los Angeles' Koreatown probably doesn't need another BBQ place -- well, at least not another Korean one. There seems to be a restaurant with tabletop grills in every plaza, strip mall and food court, cannibalizing another one's business two doors down or across the street. Let's be blunt: Entreprene ... More >>
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March 26, 2012
The Late Murray Lender: Better Than His Bagels
Lender's Bagels are simultaneously mushy and dense, insipid pucks of dough with holes in the middle. There's no point in comparing a once-frozen Lender's bagel and the puffed-up, chewy specimens a real bagelry turns out. Still, Murray Lender, son of the label's founder, deserves accolades for expa ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
5 Best Margaritas In L.A.
Ten years ago -- maybe even five years in Happy Hour time -- compiling the 5 Best Margaritas in L.A. would have been a syrupy lime mix task. Now we're awash in so many small batch tequilas and fresh-squeezed lime promises on cocktail menus that the idea of a $100 margarita is somehow (?) not terrib ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
2012 James Beard Foundation Award Nominees Announced: The Mozza Edition
Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2012 nominations for book awards, journalism, design and graphics, broadcast and media, and restaurant and chefs. It is a very long list. There were also awards given for lifetime achievement (Wolfgang Puck!) and humanitarian of the year (Charlie Tr ... More >>
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March 20, 2012
Umamicatessen: Meating Place
A "soft open," in restaurant parlance, is a kind of dress-rehearsal period, wherein the establishment throws open its doors and hopes for a manageable trickle of customers to walk in, allowing the kitchen and waitstaff to work out kinks in the menu and service. In the Twitter age, however, a soft o ... More >>
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March 16, 2012
Maggiano's and Hugo's React to Food Allergies
For those of us who are sensitive or allergic to certain foods, eating out can sometimes feel more like a trek through a minefield than a relaxing dining experience. Thankfully, certain restaurant chains with local presence are taking steps to make dining out safer for those with food allergies, wh ... More >>
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March 15, 2012
Top 5 Weekend Food Events: St. Patty's Day Cooking Class, LQ@SK, Downward Dining, Free Food & Art, Gourmet Sandwiches
Pop-Up Art Gallery Free Food & Cocktails Westwood's Palomar Hotel is displaying artwork from Palo Klein Uber, Chris Trueman and Alison Rash for one night only. Free appetizers from Blvd 16 restaurant will be passed around the room, along with cocktails and wine. WHEN: March 15, 5-7 p.m. WHERE: Pa ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
5 Places to Eat When Your Parents Are Treating
It's not a special occasion, your parents just miss you and want to treat you to a good dinner and catch up. Awww. That's the best -- and if your budget is stretched thin and theirs isn't, all the better. The only issue is that their criteria for dining out is completely different from your own. The ... More >>
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March 12, 2012
Wang Xing Ji: Wuxi-style Cuisine Comes to the San Gabriel Valley
The panoply of Chinese regional cuisines in the San Gabriel Valley recently increased by one with the opening of Wang Xing Ji, a San Gabriel outpost of a noted Wuxi restaurant operating since 1913. Located in San Gabriel Square, the large shopping plaza known as "The Great Mall of China," the restau ... More >>
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March 9, 2012
City Tavern Introduces "Build-Your-Own" Cocktails
It's fun to order things Chipotle-style: a little from column A, a little from column B. Now, City Tavern is attempting to channel the same fun we have building our own burgers and burritos (and bears, we guess) into their cocktail menu. Recently the Culver City bar and restaurant announced a new " ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
LaOn Dining: "Exceptionally Satisfying" Korean Tapas
LaOn Dining is a tapas restaurant located right next door to Don Dae Gam, the immensely popular, pork-intensive Korean BBQ restaurant. If you walk into one because you thought it was the other -- depending on where you were trying to get to, the presence or absence of the tabletop grills should tip ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
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 >>
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March 6, 2012
Now Open: Beachwood Cafe, Formerly the Village Coffee Shop
Of all restaurant genres worth revisiting, the coffee shop ranks high. And it's one that Los Angeles, for better or for worse, particularly excels at updating. The Beachwood Café, formerly known as the Village Coffee Shop when it shuttered last year, has joined the ranks of the nouveau diner. This ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
Simmzy's to Open Second Location in Long Beach
Manhattan Beach's beachside restaurant and craft beer pub Simmzy's will be opening a second location in Long Beach's Belmont Shore shopping and entertainment district this Spring -- and artist's renderings of the final look were posted on Facebook recently. Construction has been underway on Simmzy ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
Gorday Ramsay to Open The Fat Cow This Summer
We know this is a prime moment for carnivores, what with the nose-to-tail movement in full swing. But Gordan Ramsay's new restaurant, slated to open at The Grove this summer, may be taking our meat-obsession a little too far. It's called, drumroll please, The Fat Cow. This comes just as Mendocino F ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Ray's and Stark Bar Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary
We use certain events to mark the passage of time. Birthdays. Graduations. Job promotions. Then there are restaurant openings. For some, they're just as meaningful as the time we blew out 16 candles, or tossed a tasseled cap into the air. Especially in our city, where food trends have changed as fas ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Top 20 Things We Learned About L.A. from Vintage Menus
We've been big fans of Menu Design in America since it came out in autumn of 2011. It's big, beautiful and lovingly curated by Taschen editor Jim Heimann, an obsessive menu collector and self-admitted menu thief. Now that we've had time to pore over the book, which features plenty of menus from Los ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Food News Roundup: America as Food Truck Nation, Ruhlman's Toys, Sushi Nozawa Song About Waiters
Michael Ruhlman: Great Kitchen Tools a very fun short film. Smithsonian Magazine: How America Became a Food Truck Nation (by Jonathan Gold). Daily Dish: The LA Times Food section debuted nearly 50 years ago. (It will fold into a new Saturday section beginning Mar. 10.) New York Times: On the cl ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
Happy Hour: Vinoteca Farfalla in Los Feliz
The Place: Vinoteca Farfalla, 1968 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Angeles; (323) 661-8070. The Hours: 4-7 p.m. every day. The Deals: Wines for $5 and $6, beers for $3 and $4, and discounts on the entire menu. The Digs: You might expect Vinoteca Farfalla, a wine bar about equidistant from hot spots The Alc ... More >>
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March 2, 2012
The Spice Table: Happy Anniversary A Week of Fun
If you have not yet been to The Spice Table, chef Bryant Ng's utterly beautiful brick house of a restaurant in Little Tokyo, you might try finally getting around to in next week. Although why you haven't yet gone to eat the marvelous marrow bones, or Ng's take on dishes from his native Singapore or, ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
New Health Department Policy Lets Dogs on Patios, Still Not on Chairs
For dog owners who have nice, well-behaved pups, going out to eat with your pack just got a little bit easier: a new Los Angeles County Public Health policy grants restaurants with outside dining areas with the authority to decide whether to give dogs a seat at the foot of the table. As the Dail ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
Jonathan Gold's 60 Korean Dishes Every Angeleno Should Know
See Also: A Google map for all 60 of the Korean dishes Jonathan Gold says every Angeleno should know, read "5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup," learn about "5 Koreatown Beer Joints: Hite Requirement," or just look at more of Anne Fishbein's beautiful Koreatown food photography. I ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
5 Koreatown Restaurants Open 24 Hours: Hangover Soup
There is a segment of the population whose late-night cravings consist not of bacon and eggs or burgers and fries, but of sizzling grilled short ribs and flaming hot soups and comforting porridge. That segment of the population is the one you'll find after last call in Koreatown. There are so many ... More >>
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March 1, 2012
I'm on a Boat: Why So Many Places in Koreatown Have Nautical and Pirate Designs
At the center of the city, there is a 100-foot-long ocean liner dry-docked in a parking lot. It would seem out of place in many if not most L.A. neighborhoods. Except here. Landlocked Koreatown is bobbing with nautical-themed restaurants, and you can't walk the length of a plank without stumbling in ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
4 Leap Year Dining Events for Feb. 29: The Edison, 29-Cent Wine, CITY Night, Roy Choi/Mark Peel Mashup
[Update: Just added the event at The Edison.] Make Leap Day William happy: Buy a Leap Day cocktail and receive a free sidecar created by The Edison's bartenders. Also, 40% discount on cocktails, beer, wine and selected food items. (As with every Wednesday, all wine by the bottle is half-off.) WHEN: ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
5 Best Barbecue Joints In Los Angeles
It seems hardly a 12-hour smoke has gone by since the days when polling around for the 5 Best Barbecue Joints in L.A. inevitably elicited those, "Well, if you have to eat barbecue in L.A.," and similar asterisk-studded brisket conversations that ended in buying a side firebox smoker (literally). We' ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
Old Town Pasadena's Happy Hour Week Starts Tomorrow
Old Town Pasadena is kicking off its second annual Happy Hour Week on Thursday, March 1. And much like an extension of happy hour, the 'week' will run for two weeks, until March 15. Participating restaurants, bars and lounges are set to offer cheap items such as $1 martinis, $2 beers and $3 appeti ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
Hardworking Trio Celebrates 50 Years at Taix French Restaurant in Echo Park
It's a weekday afternoon at Taix French Restaurant in Echo Park, and three employees in button-up shirts are reminiscing about 50 years of serving the restaurant's guests -- many of whom return time and time again. "They like the ambiance," says Bernard Inchauspe, a waiter. "Most of us, we're prett ... More >>
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February 29, 2012
A February Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings
The elderly browse the obits for long-lost friends; foodists check the blogs for restaurant passings. This week, sushi fiends flooded a Studio City strip mall for Nozawa's last days. After only two years, Elements Kitchen in Pasadena bid its patrons farewell. "Thank you all for the wonderful memorie ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Humans, Dogs Can Now Eat Together in L.A. County Restaurants
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced Monday that, effective immediately, dogs will be permitted to join their owners on restaurant patios and in outdoor cafes. The agency previously prohibited canines from county eateries. Guidelines were established after numerous requests ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Zagat Debuts Los Angeles 30 Under 30 List
Some of our favorite young chefs made Zagat's first ever Los Angeles 30 Under 30 list (a.k.a. how to make anyone over 30 feel inadequate). The honorees include Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), Joshua Drew (Farmshop), Jordan Kahn (Red Medicine), Ilan Hall (The Gorbals), Casey Lane (Tasting Kitchen), Crai ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
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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February 27, 2012
Killer Shrimp Is Opening Killer Cafe in April Newport Beach Coming Soon
Our sister blog Stick a Fork In It reported this morning that Killer Shrimp might be opening a second location in Newport Beach later this summer. We spoke this morning to Chris Reda, a manager at Marina del Rey, who tells us that a lease has not been signed yet, but they're very interested in a par ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Biáng Biáng Noodles Where to Find Them
One of the latest regional Chinese noodle variations to arrive in the San Gabriel Valley? Biáng biáng noodles. Originating in Shaanxi Province in central China, Biáng biáng noodles are another regional iteration of handmade noodles. For this, wheat noodles are torn into long, thick, wide strips ... More >>
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February 24, 2012
Orange County Restaurant Week Begins Sunday
OC Weekly/Kevin Laramilk and cereal at Chapter One in Santa AnaCalling all Angelenos who need an excuse to trek down to Santa Ana, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Costa Mesa, and other Orange County locales: Orange County Restaurant Week begins this weekend, running from Sunday Feb. 26 to Saturday Mar. ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Can You Dig It?, Global Food Porn, Test Kitchen Burger Night, ColLAboration Winterfest, Market Basket Cocktails
Anne Fishbein/LA WeeklyRoasted beets and cheese at MB PostCan You Dig It? Chef David LeFevre kicks off a seasonal series where he hosts a guest chef who will cook a three-course meal of shareable small plates. For the inaugural event, it's LeFevre's pal Giuseppe Tentori (Boka, GT Fish & Oyste ... More >>
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February 22, 2012
Car Crashes Into Pizza Buona in Echo Park
A car slammed into popular Echo Park restaurant Pizza Buona shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, shattering the glass window in front, smashing through tables and chairs and sending a pregnant woman to the hospital. The dining room was empty at the time, but a 20-year-old pedestrian was dragged ... More >>
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