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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 25, 2012
Food Network Alumni Bruce Seidel and Duff Goldman to Launch YouTube Channel HUNGRY
July 2 will mark a the emergence of a new platform for food television, thanks to former Food Network and Cooking Channel veteran Bruce Seidel. The Associated Press reports that Seidel, the creator of Food Network Star and Iron Chef America, will spearhead the launch of HUNGRY, a specialized YouTube ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
8 Craft Beer Bars in the San Fernando Valley Happy Hour Specials
The glorious San Fernando Valley. Spatially vast, heavily populated, and wildly lacking in proper places to drink. Or so we thought. Today, it's time to put your ignorance to bed and minimize the attitude long enough to see the truth -- that from Burbank to Agoura Hills you can always find a decent ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
6 Great Butcher Shops for Memorial Day Grilling
Where's the beef? It's at these Los Angeles meat shops, which will most certainly be bustling in preparation for this weekend. We've outlined a few recommandations for what to get a several of the city's most respected butchers -- locally sourced, organic, all that good business -- but we also nam ... More >>
Eat+Drink
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 24, 2012
Nong Lá Café Brings Bun Bo Hue to West L.A.
Nong Lá Café, the latest addition to the strip of Sawtelle Boulevard often known as Little Osaka due to its concentration of Japanese eateries, is offering something a bit different than most of its neighbors -- instead of ramen and yakitori, diners will able able to get a taste of Vietnamese spec ... More >>
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May 23, 2012
Cookbook Review: Grow, Cook, Eat, For Gardening Kitchen Tips A Recipe For Roasted Beets With Citrus Vinaigrette
Grow, Cook, Eat by Willi Galloway is a handy little book, despite the entertainingly transparent subtitle: A Food Lover's Guide to Vegetable Gardening including 50 recipes, plus Harvesting and Storage Tips. If you are spending your Saturday tending to your vegetable garden rather than pruning roses, ... 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 23, 2012
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 >>
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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
What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Morels
Morel mushrooms are back -- after a tense few days among antsy pickers up north. Conventional wisdom says that on the West Coast, morels show up in spring after two full days of 80 degree weather and that they favor recently disturbed earth, either from fire, logging or new landscaping. This bode ... 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 17, 2012
10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
Los Cincos Puntos, one of our favorite places for a taco, is located right near a cemetery. This is fitting, in a way: After all, in Los Angeles, nothing can be said to certain, except death and tacos. Indeed, we're willing to bet that if you peeked in backyards across town during Memorial Day week ... 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
Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart
Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... 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 15, 2012
10 California Summer Wine Events
Summer is a wine-drinking marathon in California, and up and down the coast, each weekend brings pleasant opportunities to imbibe outside. The diversity of events reflects the state's varied wine-growing regions. Those on hotel grounds come with a room night package -- a smart way to go. Because i ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Bon Appetit!: The Delicious Life of Julia Child: A Children's Book Celebrates the Life of Julia Child
Julia Child would have turned 100 this August, a centennial that will be celebrated by many venues across the country, including Vroman's bookstore in Pasadena. (Child was a Pasadena native.) The anniversary is also the occasion of the publication of a terrific new children's book by Jessie Hartland ... 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 11, 2012
10 Sickened by Raw Milk in California
Ten California residents have come down with food poisoning -- Campylobacter bacteria infections, to be exact -- after consuming raw milk produced by Fresno County-based Organic Pastures. Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the dairy have been recalled and are s ... More >>
Eat+Drink
May 10, 2012
The Original Food Trucks
Loncheras are riding the food truck tidal wave
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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
Cooking Drinking: Three New High Alcohol Cookbooks
Booze-themed cookbooks have never been terribly high on our everyday shopping lists, but there are those weekend moments when The Food of Morocco isn't quite what we're craving. Okay, that's not really true. We'd be content with Paula Wolfert's harissa any day of the week. But we're all for occasion ... 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 9, 2012
'The Avengers' Shawarma Bump Where to Feed Your Craving
Remember that scene in E.T. with the Reese's Pieces? It reportedly boosted sales of the candy so high in 1982 that the Hershey corporation was forced to keep a factory open minting the candies 24/7. The moral of the story? Feature a food in a popular movie and people with not-so-subliminally find th ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Wine Cellar: Master Sommelier Richard Betts on "Feral" Chardonnay
We've long been keen on winemaker Greg La Follette's Pinot Noir style, his bagpipe back story and the Friday night Bingo shirts he sports at wine tasting events. He's also weathered the wine business long enough that he doesn't worry about telling the whole wine truth, and nothing but the truth (so ... More >>
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May 8, 2012
Spicy Food Fight: Fukuburger vs. Kalbi Burger
Though it may be more anecdotal than anything else, there is a popular theory that during South Korea's recession in the mid-to-late 2000's the country's young unemployed masses became especially enamored with a dish called buldak, or "fire chicken," a sauce-covered stir fry that was prepared so hot ... 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
Cookbooks Panel at LitFest Pasadena
Cookbooks have long faced competition from magazines and newspapers. But now, it's the Internet Age. Print publications are putting their recipes online, and websites such as Epicurious and Food help you find instructions for virtually any dish with just a few clicks. Meanwhile, blogs are offering t ... 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
Flour Tea: A New Tea Shop in Pasadena
If Flour Tea seems like a hybrid of better Taiwanese tea joints and bakeries around San Gabriel Valley, it has everything to do with co-owners (and cousins) Nancy Ou and Johnson Wang whose collective résumé reads like a tea industry road map. Sitting on the corner of Cordova and Arroyo Parkway, ... 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 2, 2012
Sriracha Lollipops: Sucking on a Bottle of Hot Sauce
Wonder what would happen if you dipped this in a bowl of pho... From Lollyphile, the good people who brought us absinthe lollys: introducing Sriracha-flavored lollipops. We suppose it was just a matter of time before someone thought of making the famous sauce into a candy. The sriracha craze has be ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
Update: Hollywood Pies Moves West Seating Coming Soon
Are you familiar with Hollywood Pies, the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza operation that operates in semi-secrecy? We were big fans when we got our first taste late last year outside a nondescript building west of downtown -- a crispy, cheesy sauce-drenched pizza that weighed about as much as a manhol ... 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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May 1, 2012
Everson Royce: Silverlake Wine's Pasadena Spinoff Now Open
Opened last Saturday, Old Town Pasadena's Everson Royce is not quite a sequel to Silverlake Wine. Think character spinoff. Two out of three Silverlake Wine owners are involved; approximately 25% of the same small-production wine brands are stocked. Potential customers are greeted immediately at the ... 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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