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A Diary of the Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture

"The San Andreas is not Los Angeles' only fault," cracked architectural historian Thomas Hines at the kickoff to Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.. Hines didn't really mean it -- he was quoting a joke that people from, say, San Francisco might make -- but the quip hit just ... More >>

Q & A With Rich Marcello of Strand Brewing Company: This Weekend's Bottle Release, Texts From Fans How the Beer Scene is Like NASCAR

Less than two months after Strand Brewing Company celebrated its 3rd Anniversary -- and just over a year after opening its always-busy Torrance tap room -- the foundational South Bay beer-makers are ready for another epic milestone: bottles. Starting with a two-day kickoff at the tap room this wee ... 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 >>

Top 6 Los Angeles Breweries to Watch In 2013

Los Angeles might have one of the younger beer communities on the West Coast, but it is certainly making up for lost time. The city that once lived in the shadow of beer powerhouses like San Diego and Portland is finally starting to come into its own with new breweries beginning to ship suds and man ... More >>

Cognoscenti Coffee Opens Today in Culver City

After starting his Cognoscenti Coffee as a pop-up coffee cart in Burbank and Eagle Rock, then setting up shop inside Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Yeekai Lim now has expanded into a room of his very own. Four hundred square feet of room, to be exact: Cognoscenti Coffee's new shop in Culver City ... More >>

Koreatown: America's Hippest Neighborhood

Reality show K-Town unmasks the liquid rituals fueling Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood

Test Kitchen Returns: Testing ... 1, 2, 3

Test Kitchen was born in August 2010. Located in the lower level of Townhouse, the restaurant that would become Sotto and Picca, it was a culinary experiment, a rotating pop-up that featured different chefs and menus every night. During its 2010 run, from August to December, Test Kitchen held dinner ... More >>

10 Best Onion Rings in Los Angeles

Angelenos, there are some spectacular onion rings being fried up in our midst. They're most commonly found in two very similar, yet disparate places -- burger joints and steak houses. In other words, you can pay $3 and get them on a plastic tray with a beer or a bottomless soda; or you can pay $12 i ... More >>

Meet Your Food Bloggers: Drew Hubbard and Ben Waters of L.A. Foodie

Pair two affable, self-described "food dudes" living in L.A. -- digital marketing consultant Drew Hubbard with film and video editor Ben Waters, who has improv comedy training -- and you get L.A. Foodie. The site with the colorful burger logo and light-hearted tone delivers commentary on topics rang ... More >>

Budweiser Magnum Soon to be the Costliest Beer in India

Last week Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that the new Budweiser Magnum will become the highest priced super-premium beer in India, Economic Times reports. The strong, American-style lager will debut in a 650 ml bottle (22 oz. bomber) for 150 rupees. Is that a wildly high price? While 150 Rs comes in ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

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 >>

Expo Line Design: The L.A. Weekly Review

A forecast of insultingly high gas prices, paired with a buoyant burst of car-free optimism (including an ambitious bike-share program just announced by the city), make the timing perfect for L.A.'s newest rail line to debut. Starting April 28, the Expo Line will travel the eight miles from downtown ... More >>

L.A.'s Craft Beer Revolution Has Golden State's Jason Bernstein Raising His Pint Glass

Smog City Brewery: An Interview With the New L.A. Brewery You Probably Haven't Heard of the Unofficial Launch Party Next Week

Smog City. If it sounds like the perfect name for the next L.A.-area brewery, that's because it already is. With new local breweries making headlines months before they even open these days, we were caught off-guard when Smog City Brewery co-owner Laurie Porter contacted us after reading our homebre ... More >>

Battle Sangria: Rick Bayless vs. Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken a Recipe from the Winner

C. LeVasserJamaica sangria by Rick Bayless​Some of us have been going out a lot less these days. But rather than unnecessarily spending twenty dollars on a rare gueuze at Father's Office, we've been throwing our money at things like Scharffen Berger chocolate, or imported speck from Alto-Adige ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Shin Sen Gumi

Ask Mr. Gold: Yuzu Ramen Purple Foods
 That Start With "Q"

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: I'm a raw vegan who eats nothing but purple foods starting with the letter Q. Can you recommend a good steakhouse for me? --Robyn Brown, via Facebook

Top 10 Local Burger Condiments

JGarbeeHomemade Burger Buns Come In All Sizes, Too​As our fearless 30-burgers-in-30-days critic moves on to ice cream, some of us are still thinking about burgers. Because it's suddenly June, which means summer, or so we have been told. And so, we are now calendar-committed to stocking up on c ... More >>

Q & A With Sang Yoon: Lukshon's Test Kitchen, Issues of Heat Ghetto Fish Sauce

A. ScattergoodSang Yoon outside Lukshon​ Sang Yoon is not an easy man to pin down. He moves quickly. He doesn't like interviews, or at least so it's always seemed to us. But when he actually sits down and starts talking, he often doesn't stop. Which is very cool, since he's got a lot of intere ... More >>

Q & A With Sang Yoon, Part 2: His Jewish Grandmother, Duck Tongue Why The Chef Wants A Centrifuge

A. ScattergoodSang Yoon outside Lukshon​ At the conclusion of the first part of our interview with Sang Yoon (Lukshon, Father's Office), the chef was considering the relative merits of using heat as a weapon and why you can ask for sriracha at Lukshon although to ask for ketchup at Father's Of ... More >>

Last Night: The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards The Winners

J. RitzOutstanding Chef nom Suzanne Goin and Best NYC Chef winner Gabrielle Hamilton on the green carpet outside the JBFAs. ​ We Californians have a reputation, however fictional or exaggerated, for looking on the bright side of things. So when it comes to reporting on the 2011 James Beard Fou ... More >>

Dogfight: The Bacon Wrapped Hot Dog vs Let's Be Frank

Gregory Bojorquez​ This SoCal-NorCal rivalry thing is totally overblown. We're all Californians, and they've got some great stuff up there, like beer, book publishers, and hyphy rap. Who cares that they use obnoxious words like "hella," that they have their own stupid logo, or that they root ... More >>

Wine on Tap: Restaurants Get Into the Flow

Vinson PhotographyWine Cask Santa Barbara​ Wine has always been tapped from barrels. Rarely though, except at a winery, can you drink it that way. That is changing as more California winemakers are packaging wine in multi-gallon kegs and restaurants junk bottles for tap systems. Draft wine is ... More >>

Hop Heaven Comes to LA: Naja's Place 3rd Anniversary IPA Festival

Martin SvabNaja's crowd​ Hops will prevail at the best India Pale Ale (IPA) festival that will happen all year in the Southland. Naja's Place 3rd Anniversary IPA Festival begins Thursday, April 21. If Father's Office is the granddaddy of all L.A. beer bars, Naja's Place is the godfather. In ... More >>

Hooray for Inglewood!

High West: The Spirit Of The Rye, Rye West Their Newest Double Rye Release

J. GarbeeThe Regional Whiskey Face Off Continues ​If you follow the spirits circuit, specifically those of the barrel-aged corn and rye persuasion, High West Distillery in Park City, Utah, has probably been on your radar for a while. If not, you'll hear about this young craft distillery soon i ... More >>

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 >>

Meat as Sculpture

Introducing the Maillol burger

Waterloo & City: Virtuosity and Beer

Just what Culver City needed

LA's Beer Gurus Pick Their Favorite Summer Brews: Dogfish Head, Drakes, The Bruery

flickr user bubliSummer Beer Tasting: Raspberries Not Included​Despite the lingering June gloom, it's going to get hot. Soon. And we will all need a cold -- and preferably, good -- beer. Which to choose? Squid Ink asked some of LA's beer glitterati (a mix of professional brewers, gastropub ow ... More >>

Q & A With Ben Ford, Part 2: The Definition of a Gastropub, Life in Culver City FFS Going Mexican

In the first part of our interview with Ben Ford of Ford's Filling Station in Culver City, Ford had just been discussing parsley -- specifically, the beautiful plating of it at Chez Panisse, where Ford worked in his early 20's -- and life on the line at Campanile. Today, Ford gets us up to date. Tur ... More >>

L.A. Beer Experts Mythbust 5 Complaints of Amateur Beer Drinkers

Caroline on CrackFor Beer Chick Christina Perozzi glassware plays a key role in how beer is properly served.​ With the popularity of gastropubs and craft beer bars in our city, you can't just walk into a beer-serious bar and order a tall, cold one anymore. Now there are many factors to consid ... More >>

Tom Leykis and Adam Leemon: A Perfect Pairing

Top 10 Holiday Gifts: Presents for Foodies

For some people, food is just the stuff we eat, but for others, it's a bit more important. Take your mother, whose favorite television show is Top Chef and who staged a Quickfire Gravy Challenge at Thanksgiving this year. From the boyfriend who says "yes chef!" when you're boiling pasta for dinner t ... More >>

Top 10 Ways to Eat Local in L.A.

So you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma and watched Food, Inc twice, but you still aren't quite sure how to eat local in Los Angeles. The city is covered in exhaust smoke, and it's harder to imagine growing food here then being one of those people who, um, walk. Still for all its metropolitan appearan ... More >>

The Naked Pint Released Today! Plus a Conversation With Local Beer Experts/Authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune

Beer-- it's for everybody.​Today marks the release of The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer, from authors Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune. Perozzi, also known as The Beer Chick, was named "Best Beer Sommelier" by LA Magazine and is currently regarded as one of the top beer e ... More >>