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Evan Kleiman

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2012

    Tech for Food Nerds: Chefs Feed 2.0 Launches Today

    Chefs Feed, the app that launched a little less than a year ago, released version 2.0 today with a bunch of new cities and more social media interaction capabilities. Chefs Feed aims to do much the same thing as our Where the Chefs Eat posts aspire to -- that is, let the food professionals guide y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Evan Kleiman Pops Up at the Charleston With a 4-Course Dinner

    If you're still mourning the loss of chef Evan Kleiman's Angeli Cafe (who isn't?), you can sample her food again at the Charleston on Monday, May 7, with two seatings at 6 and 8 p.m. The KCRW Good Food host will prepare a four-course rustic Italian meal, served family-style. "Every day I get emails ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 19, 2012

    Jonathan Gold's Angeli Caffe Eulogy

    Evan Kleiman's beloved Melrose Avenue trattoria closes after 27 years

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2012

    Angeli Caffe's Final Days: Reservations Now Open for a Late Service

    If you, like many many people in this town, have been lining up to eat a last meal at Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe, which is closing its Melrose Avenue doors after 27 years, you'll be all too aware that the last service is Friday night. You will also know that the place has been booked solid. Last ni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/3-1/6

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Let me get this straight: You're in Los Angeles, the single greatest eating city in the world, and what you're craving is a writhing mass of greasy, no doubt previously frozen fries in the style of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    Evan Kleiman's Farewell Tour Angeli's Last Days Extended

    Guzzle & NoshAngeli Caffe interior​Last week we reported that Evan Kleiman would be shuttering her Angeli Caffee on January 8th. The response was so overwhelming -- since the announcement they've been serving roughly 200 or so dinners a night -- that the door-closing has been extended to Jan. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    The Year In Food Interviews

    One of the beautiful things about journalism, not unlike therapy, is that you get to talk to people about themselves. In this case, we have the enormous privilege of being able to take our notepads and recorders and iPhones into the kitchens and restaurants -- or hotel lobbies and neighborhood coffe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/26-12/30

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I am imagining six years as an ABD in Dumpling Science, and my fear smells a lot like goose noodle soup. Or is that what's simmering downstairs on the stove?" The World in Dumplings: Or, Not Livin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Upon The Closing of Angeli Caffe: A Love Story

    Back in 2009, I was assigned by the LA Weekly to cover a wedding that was being held at Angeli Caffe. I can't remember how the story came to me but I've known Evan Kleiman for longer than either of us would like to see in print. Yet I don't see her very often. Over the years, she's become the friend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe to Close

    Very sad news: One of Los Angeles' best known and most loved neighborhood restaurants is going out of business. After 27 years, Evan Kleiman's Angeli Caffe will close next month. January 8th will be its last day in business. Owner and chef Evan Kleiman, who also hosts the weekly KCRW program Good ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2011

    [Updated] Easy As Pie: Evan Kleiman's Pie App (A Sneak Peek)

    Easy As Pie​Update: 11/17, 8:30 a.m. Easy As Pie app is now available. You can download it in the iTunes store. The original piece, published 11/16, is below. Evan Kleiman takes her love of pies to a new level with Easy As Pie, an iPhone and iPad application that debuts tomorrow. We took a qu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2011

    Eric Schlosser Returns to L.A. on Nov. 17

    (L to R): Evan Kleiman moderates a discussion between Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.​Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, who visited Southern California in February to talk with Michael Pollan and Evan Kleiman about the business -- the very big business -- of food, returns to Los Angel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Nancy Silverton

    (L to R): Evan Kleiman moderates a discussion between Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser.​Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser, who visited Southern California in February to talk with Michael Pollan and Evan Kleiman about the business -- the very big business -- of food, returns to Los Angel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    And Now, A Brief Message From Evan Kleiman

    Screenshot of Evan Kleiman's Twitter page​

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Last Night: Top 10 Quotes from KCRW's Global Street Food Panel

    Guzzle & NoshCrowds wait in fron of the Nom Nom Truck (left); a taco from Mariscos Jalisco (right).​If you've been to some of the apallingly oversold food truck festivals of the past couple years, the sight of lines snaking around food trucks outside the Broad Stage on Sunday morning should ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    And Now, A Brief Message From Evan Kleiman

    Screenshot of Evan Kleiman's Twitter page​

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    And Now, A Brief Message From Evan Kleiman

    Screenshot of Evan Kleiman's Twitter page​

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Evan Kleiman Talks Global Street Food - Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

    ​Street food existed long before the myriad of Twittering food trucks took over Los Angeles. Evan Kleiman (chef/owner of Angeli Caffe, host of KCRW's Good Food) reminds us of that on May 1st, when she moderates the Global Street Food event featuring OC Weekly Managing Editor and food contribut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    Reminder: Food Inc. Talk with Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Evan Kleiman at USC on Wednesday

    Food Inc.​ For ticket holders, a quick reminder that the Evan Kleiman moderated talk between Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser is this week: this Wednesday, February 9 at USC's Bovard Auditorium. As Kleiman previously pointed out, these two writers and food activists don't get together often, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    And Now, A Brief Message From Evan Kleiman

    screenshot of Evan Kleiman's Twitter page​

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser Talk to Evan Kleiman - Free Tickets Available

    Michael Pollan via Wikipedia​Are iPhone alarms working yet? They'd better be, because you need an alert at 9:00 a.m. sharp this Thursday, January 13th when free (free!) tickets become available for USC's Visions and Voices event featuring authors Michael Pollan of The Omnivore's Dilemma and Er ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    The Twelve Days Of Cookies: An Italian Taralli Recipe From Evan Kleiman

    Evan KleimanA Taralli Holiday Tree​On the first day of our Twelve Days of Cookie Recipes we brought you Alice Medrich's milk chocolate and hazelnut peanut butter meringue recipe. On the second day, we diverged slightly off the straight and narrow cookie path with a recipe for homemade peanut b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/29-12/3

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The refrigerator is swept of leftovers, the bowl of cranberries has been scraped clean, and the half-gallon of superconcentrated turkey stock in the freezer doesn't begin to compensate for the loss." Ask Mr. Gold: Take a Dip ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2010

    Chefs Come Together to Support Good Food for All Angelenos

    ​ Philanthropic food lovers, mark your calendars: on October 6th some of the biggest and most sustainability minded chefs in the city, along with some conscientious local farmers, are coming together for the fundraiser Good Food for All, A Taste of the Los Angeles Foodshed. Hosted by the n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2010

    Pie-A-Day Contest 2010: 234 Pies, An Apron Show, But No Pie Throwing (Yet)

    Good Food blogDelilah Snell's (The Road Less Traveled) mixed berry pie​ The end of another Los Angeles summer, the end of another season of pies for Evan Kleiman. Kleiman (Angeli Caffe, Good Food) has closed her second Pie-A-Day contest and will judge the entries this Sunday, September 5th, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    MasterChef Debuts Tomorrow: Begging the Question, Chef or Cook?

    FoxGordon Ramsay tastes a contestant's dish​Tomorrow night FOX premieres a new cooking competition show in which home cooks will compete for the title of MasterChef.  The top 50 contestants will cook the signature dishes that got them on the show for judges Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Q & A With Evan Kleiman, Part 2: L.A.'s Italian Scene, Food Trucks The Radio Hell of Swedish Cookbook Authors

    In the first part of our interview with Evan Kleiman, chef-owner of Angeli Caffé and host of KCRW's Good Food, she was considering the somewhat disconcerting fact that her Melrose Avenue restaurant recently celebrated its quarter century anniversary. In the second part of the interview, Kleiman dis ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    A Recipe From the Chef: Evan Kleiman's Peach-Tomato Salad With Burrata

    A. Scattergoodpeach-tomato salad with burrata at Angeli Caffe​ After sitting down recently in the dining room of Angeli Caffé for a chat about this and that, Evan Kleiman was kind enough to give us the recipe for this peach-tomato salad with burrata, which is currently on the menu at her rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Q & A With Evan Kleiman: More Pies, 6,000 Interviews Trading Cooking Schools for Apprenticeships

    A. ScattergoodEvan Kleiman, at Angeli Caffe​ Angeli Caffé has been a Melrose Avenue fixture, a destination, a refuge, the source for a fine plate of spaghetti alla checca, for a quarter of a century now. Twenty-six years, to be precise, as Evan Kleiman celebrated her restaurant's 25th annive ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2010

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

    -- Maury Rubin's Birdbath Bakery not opening after all. [Eater LA] -- Cookware shops in Paris. [David Lebovitz] -- Supporting our local food trucks in the face of a call for increased regulations. [Eating L.A.] -- A review of Tacos El Rocky. [LA Taco] -- Geoff Nicholson reviews Anthony Bourd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    The Return of Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day Project

    Evan Kleiman is baking pies again. This might not seem like a particularly momentous announcement -- a chef baking pies -- were it not that Kleiman, chef-owner of Angeli Caffé, cookbook author and host of KCRW's radio show Good Food, baked pies every single day for months last year as part of her P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Food at Dwell on Design, the 2010 Restaurant Design Awards A Cocktail Naming Competition

    Matt SchodorfCafé de Leche in Highland Park designed by FreelandBuck.​ It's that time of year again, when Dwell on Design takes over the aesthetically challenged L.A. Convention Center with many food-centric events during the weekend of June 25th through 27th. First off, finalists for the s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    Golden Fridays on KCRW

    Zocalo Public SquareEvan Kleiman, Ruth Reichl, Jonathan Gold and Laurie Ochoa at the Skirball in January​ You won't find KCRW's Good Food host Evan Kleiman and LA Weekly's Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold on Saturday mornings when you usually expect them, but you will find them ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Passover Planner: Restaurant Seders Around Town

    Photo: J. RitzEvan Kleiman's matzo ball soup at Angeli.​ The two nights of Passover seder 5770 fall on Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30. Our local, trusty, sophisticated Passover mavens honor the broad Jewish culinary diaspora while hewing to some familiar traditions as well. Bottom lin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2009

    Happy Anniversary, Angeli Caffe: Evan Kleiman's Restaurant Opened 25 Years Ago Today

    Happy Anniversary, Evan Kleiman. Or, more accurately, Happy Anniversary Agneli Caffé, which opened its Melrose Avenue doors 25 years ago today. The chef, cookbook author and host of KCRW's Good Food is profiled in today's L.A. Times' food section cover story (check out the photo of Kleiman in a g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2009

    Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day Contest: The End of Pies In Sight

    For some months now, Evan Kleiman has been baking pies--and baking pies and baking pies--as part of her Pie-A-Day project for KCRW. Now that it's November, Kleiman is nearing the end of her pastry marathon. As the culminating event, KCRW will host a Good Food Pie Contest on Saturday, November 14th, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Evan Kleiman's Good Food Program Tomorrow: Gold & Parsons on the Demise of Gourmet

    Anyone who's been downing Eric Alperin's violet-scented cocktails to cope with living in a post-Gourmet world should get up at least by 11 tomorrow morning and turn on the radio. On KCRW's Good Food program, Evan Kleiman will be discussing the demise of the much-loved magazine with the Weekly's Jona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Evan Kleiman's Pie in the Sky Quest: The Pie-a-Day Project

    Evan Kleiman, chef-owner of Angeli Caffé, cookbook author and host of KCRW's radio show Good Food, has been baking pies lately. A lot of pies. A pie every single day, in fact, as part of her Pie-a-Day project on her KCRW blog. And although KTLA will be doing a live broadcast tomorrow morning from h ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 28, 2009

    Another L.A. Love Story — the Setting, Angeli Caffe

    The waiting game

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    Passover in LA: Italian Specials With Pot Roast Traditions at Angeli

    Evan Kleiman cooks up a delicious hybrid Passover at Angeli with an emphasis on Italian traditions, as evidenced by cianfotta green veggie stew and one of Evan's faves, pesce en carpione. But you won't have to miss out on pot roast and chicken matzo ball soup either. Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m., ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Taco Madness 2009: Last Chance to Vote for LA Taco Immortality

    Online polls close Sunday at midnight in LAtaco.com's first-annual Taco Madness tourney. In the championship's final round, it's all about Los Feliz versus Santa Monica. Yuca's or Tacos Por Favor? Will this contest be about rallying neighborhood support, or about the place that inspires taco love ci ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 23, 2006

    Because Atkins Is So Five-Minutes-Ago

    Online polls close Sunday at midnight in LAtaco.com's first-annual Taco Madness tourney. In the championship's final round, it's all about Los Feliz versus Santa Monica. Yuca's or Tacos Por Favor? Will this contest be about rallying neighborhood support, or about the place that inspires taco love ci ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 6, 2003

    All in the Family

    Online polls close Sunday at midnight in LAtaco.com's first-annual Taco Madness tourney. In the championship's final round, it's all about Los Feliz versus Santa Monica. Yuca's or Tacos Por Favor? Will this contest be about rallying neighborhood support, or about the place that inspires taco love ci ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 17, 2000

    White Space

    The possibilities and pleasures of pasta

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