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The Top 10 Bars in Santa Monica

Bordered by the Pacific, the Palisades and the 405, Santa Monica is home and host to every shade of bar and every breed of drinker. Tourists may be our bread and butter, but they're also the bane of our existence, and we prefer our drinking establishments to be minimally invaded by camera toting, di ... More >>

Opening Soon: A Burger Round-Up

Can Los Angeles be considered an unofficial burger capital of the U.S.? It wouldn't be a tough argument to make. We have plenty of burger joints: Apple Pan, Hawkins House of Burgers, In-N-Out, Father's Office, Rick's, Pie'n'Burger, and Earlez Grille, to name a handful. Next week, two burger joints - ... More >>

Father's Office: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

The 10 Best Bars in Culver City

As we all know, Culver City has gotten very trendy in recent years. Home to famous spots like The Culver Hotel and Sony Studios, Culver City has developed a unique niche, according to one bartender we talked to: "It's where the hipsters go to hang out when they're not on." Whether or not that's true ... More >>

5 Great L.A. Restaurants For Single Awareness Day

Whereas couples or polyamorists have Valentine's, some singles have been propping up their very own holiday. Some sources point to it as the alt-version of Valentine's Day held on the 14th of February, but according to SingleAwareness.com the official Single Awareness Day is today, February 15. You' ... More >>

Draft Magazine Names America's Best Beer Bars

Draft Magazine has put out its list of the country's 100 best beer bars, and Los Angeles has six spots on the list (if you include Burbank).

Lucky Rice Night Market Coming to L.A.

Lucky Rice, the New York-based Asian food festival whose "culinary council" includes the like of Anthony Bourdain, David Chang, Marcus Samuelsson, and Masharu Morimoto, is moving out west -- well, further west that is. On the heels of its Las Vegas event back in June, Lucky Rice laid out plans for i ... More >>

Chaos Muppet Restaurants vs. Order Muppet Restaurants

A few weeks ago, Dahlia Lithwick wrote a piece for Slate in which she set forth The Muppet Theory of Humanity: We all can essentially be described as a Kermit or a Miss Piggy, a Bert or an Ernie, or, more generally, an Order Muppet or a Chaos Muppet. She applied this theory to everyone from Chief J ... 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 >>

The Oinkster's Burger Week Returns: White Castle Sliders, Big Macs Sourdough Jacks

From June 4 through June 10, Andre Guerrero's retrofied pastrami and burger shack in Eagle Rock will host round two of it's popular Burger Week, which features a burger-a-day tribute to some of America's cherished cheeseburgers re-engineered by the bun 'n' patty architects in The Oinkster kitchen. ... More >>

Bon Appétit Introduces L.A. 'Grub Crawl' Tour

Bon Appétit magazine has come up with the foodie answer to the weekend music festival: a monster 3-day tour of restaurants, bars, and music venues they're calling the "Grub Crawl." It's debuting in three cities this summer: Brooklyn (natch), New Orleans, and, to our pleasant surprise, Los Angeles. ... More >>

Foie Gras-loving Chefs Fight Ban With Last-ditch Petition

When the ban on foie gras takes effect on July 1, Californians with a taste for foie will be reduced to copping the creamy tan stuff in little, perfect slugs squeezed into wax paper packets like opium. They'll slip from hand-to-hand on public transportation. Liver-laden trucks will trundle from ne ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

10 Best Beer Bars In Los Angeles

With craft beer L.A.'s current unyielding obsession, it seems crazier than a 55% ABV beer that four short years ago that we were celebrating, along with dozens of tube sock-clad homebrew club sorts, the first local bars to land coveted cask-conditioned ales on tap. My how that fedora-topped draft be ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's 10 Best Dishes of 2011

Lukshon: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Son of a Gun: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Father's Office: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

The Want Ads: A Bacon Cheeseburger Bed Of One's Own

Craigslista cheeseburger bed​If you're the sort of person who eats out way too often at Umami Burger, frequently invokes Thomas Keller's well-documented love of In-N-Out as justification for your fast food burger fetish, and spends your weekends in close proximity to your charcoal briquets and ... More >>

Top 10: Most Kid-Unfriendly Restaurants in Los Angeles

Photo by Anne FishbeinIs there a pediatric burn specialist in the house? Soot Bull Jeep.​ Sometimes eating out with kids is all about the path of least resistance, which if you peruse OpenTable Diners' Choice list of the country's 100 most kid-friendly restaurants, seems to be the prevailing p ... More >>

Food News Roundup: President Obama's Eat Our Peas Moment, Brain Freeze Sang Yoon's Foie Ice Cream Sandwiches

-- Father's Office starts serving desserts. Not just any desserts, mind you, but foie gras ice cream sandwiches. [Grub Street] -- What Causes Brain Freeze? Which is a condition also called sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. Who knew. [Food Republic, via food52] -- Marja Vongerichten's "Kimchi Chro ... More >>

Oinkster does Umami, Father's Office & McDonald's for Burger Week

​It's a little late for National Hamburger Day, but it's never too late in our book. From June 6th through June 12th, Eagle Rock pastrami haven and burger barn The Oinkster is hosting its own Burger Week. They're honoring the mighty meat with a burger-a-day tribute to their favorite local ea ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Steingarten

A Recipe From The Chef: Lukshon's Shrimp Cakes

A. ScattergoodLukshon's shrimp cakes​ In our recent interview with Sang Yoon (Father's Office, Lukshon), the chef talked about a whole lot of things: sriracha experiments, why the name of his newest restaurant is an homage to his Jewish grandmother, what he'd do with a centrifuge. And thus to ... More >>

Beer Belly: Craft Beer Bar Opens in Koreatown

Caroline on CrackJimmy and Yume Han in front of Beer Belly; artwork by MR44.​ Unlike most young newlyweds who jump on the baby track once they get married, Jimmy and Yume Han decided to open a business instead. "We knew we wanted to go into business together, but we didn't know what," Yume sai ... More >>

Weiland Brewery: The Most Ridiculous Happy Hour in L.A.

Jake OgleWeiland interior ​ Los Angeles is 500 square miles and a thousand bars. So you have a pretty good selection of "happy hours" to get your drink on. That said, the two Weiland Brewery locations in downtown LA offer incredibly reasonable happy hour prices Monday-Friday from 3-7 p.m. an ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Lukshon

Hide the Dressing: DailyBurn's New iPhone App Tracks Calories Through Photos

​ The Calorie Counters will have their way. First, they took the fun out of fast food, and now they've found a way to use our own (i)phones against us. Today, DailyBurn released a new app called MealSnap with one very fancy and terrifying feature: it can identify and track the calories in ev ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/28-4/1

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Whatever the current style in Los Angeles restaurants ends up being named, all of it -- from the small-plate thing to the fixation on local, organic produce; the off-center proteins to the internat ... More >>

Jonathan Gold on Kid-Friendly Restaurants

First Bite: Son of a Gun, or What Would You Want To Change Anyway?

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ Whatever the current style in Los Angeles restaurants ends up being named, all of it -- from the small-plate thing to the fixation on local, organic produce; the off-center proteins to the international palette of flavors; and the resistance to even modest customer ... More >>

30 Burgers in 30 Days

Five of the best (... so far)

Sang Yoon's Lukshon Is His Most Fully Realized Concept Yet

New eatery livens up Helms complex

First Bite: Lukshon, Sang Yoon's Latest

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ We can be forgiven for surmising that something's up at Lukshon, can't we? Because we are at a Sang Yoon restaurant, nobody has tried to tackle us on the way to our (reserved!) table, and we are drinking Singapore Slings or an Beaujolais-style Canary Islands wine ca ... More >>

[Updated] The Pursuit of Hoppiness: Pliny the Younger (IPA Beer) Day is Here

koadmunkee​Update: We told you you'd have to keep monitoring the tap list yourselves, but we caved and decided to give you a hand. Here's the list of confirmed Pliny the Younger appearances as it stands right now: Verdugo Bar, Wednesday, February 16 at 6 p.m.; Hops and Barley (in Temecula), S ... More >>

Q & A With Rodelio Aglibot, Part 2: What Makes a Great Burger, The Question of Arugula, President Obama 7 Courses of Spam

A. Scattergoodchef Rodelio Aglibot at GO Burger​ In the first part of our interview with Rodelio Aglibot, BLT Restaurant Group -- and thus GO Burger -- corporate executive chef, the well-traveled chef discussed Los Angeles sports and the future of Filipino cuisine, among other things. Turn th ... More >>

30 Burgers in 30 Days: Fun with Buns at Rounds Premium Burgers (Day 4)

Sitting at the windowside counter at Rounds Premium Burgers in West Hollywood, watching drunk and soon-to-be-drunk clubgoers flit from bar to bar, we couldn't stop thinking about buns. Specifically, brioche buns, the de facto frame for every upscale burger, often lending them an unearned gravitas. ... More >>

Top 10 Food Trends for 2011

Photo credit: My Last BiteButterscotch budino from Mozza2Go​Now that we've examined the Top 10 Bad Food Trends of 2010, we're looking to the year ahead. As expected...bacon in everything. DIY molecular gastronomy. Gentrified hot dogs. The growing popularity of Korean food as it assimilates mo ... More >>

Your Weekend Restaurant PSA: Sunday's Triathalon Street Closure

map of LA triathlon​ If your Sunday morning routine typically includes wandering around northern Culver City, stopping in at Akasha for brunch and then strolling over to Ford's Filling Station and then maybe across the street to Tara's Himalayan and then heading back over to Le Saint Amour to ... More >>

Mac's Headroom

We have seen the future of macaroni 'n' cheese, and its name is Mac & Cheeza

The Great Burger Debate Continues: Ten L.A. Burgers Get Dissected

Muy YumWhere does Father's Office rank?​ The only thing more assured than poor driving during an L.A. rainstorm is people pointing out that nobody in L.A. knows how to do it. The same goes for hamburgers. It is impossible to eat one, or to even mention that you like one, without everyone else ... More >>

Diary of a 6 Year Old Foodie: Can Rustic Canyon Take Down The Golden State?

A few months ago, our 6 year-old foodie took on the In-N-Out burger and the Father's Office burger, enjoying both but criticizing FO's for its structural integrity and lack of consistency from one bite to the next. In the end, he decided that the best burger was, in fact, from The Golden State. Toda ... More >>

José Andrés Is Your Guest DJ: Molecular Gastronomy to Elton John

Ever wonder what's on José Andrés' playlist? You figure he must be listening to something cutting edge while he's thinking up cotton candy foie gras and playing with the nitro canisters at The Bazaar, right? Try Elton John's Daniel. We know this because the Spanish chef shares his personal soundtr ... More >>

Ask Mr Gold: The Sunday Meal. Burgers, Beers and Fries

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: We have friends in town from Seattle, and they're hungering for a really fine burger, excellent fries and a primo beer selection. (Is there such a place, a place that offers all three under one roof? A place that's open on Sunday? ... More >>

Fit for All Constitutions: The Fifth Amendment Alehouse in Santa Monica

The beer-and-sausage package has worked quite well for a certain laser-focused Arts District restaurant, and now the Fifth Amendment Alehouse brings a similar approach to Santa Monica. Daniel Petrovich, who owns the Fifth Amendment with his wife, Eden Noe, is honest about their inspirations for the ... More >>

Food Games: ID Your Burger

Thanks for playing last week's first installment of Food Games, in which we asked you to ID a burger. For those who answered the Umami burger, you were right. Soon you'll have two more Umami locations to order one; lucky you. So here's another test: where's this burger from? It is a very tasty in ... 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 >>

Eric Greenspan's 95 Theses: A Hamburger Challenge, Nailed to the Father's Office Doors, in Ketchup

The FoundryBattle of the burgersEarly this morning, 2 a.m. to be precise, Eric Greenspan issued a hamburger challenge to LA's reigning hamburger king, Sang Yoon of Father's Office. Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry on Melrose, staged what can only be called a covert food op, nailing his challenge ... More >>

All Hopped Up at The New Father's Office

Sang Yoon's latest is bigger and probably better than the original. But can you get a seat?

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