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  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    5 Places to Eat and Drink Around Dodger Stadium

    Remember the Dodgers? The baseball team we loved but whose stadium we abandoned because of all that nasty Frank McCourt business? Now that Magic Johnson has gone on and saved the Dodgers, we can all head back out to Chavez Ravine on a lazy weekend afternoon to catch a game or two, baseball gloves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    10 Best Dim Sum Restaurants in Los Angeles

    Los Angeles is a special place. While the rest of America opts for eggs and a mimosa on Sunday mornings, a good portion of Los Angelenos prefer Chinese banquet-style restaurants for their weekly fix of turnip cake and tea. The long impatient lines and lack of parking spaces on Valley Boulevard is pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again (And Again)

    Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Congratulations to Rene Redzep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Want to Start a Food Blog? Food Blogging for Dummies Could Be Just What You Need, Depending on Your Pie Expectations

    We were bound to get a food-blogging edition of the endless "Dummies" series (we must not be getting any smarter) one of these days. With Food Blogging for Dummies, the days of "Branding Your Food Blog Through Consistency and Frequency" chapter headers has arrived. The author is Kelly Senyei, an as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Food Photography: Herb Ritts, The Black & White Squid Ink Pasta Pairings At The Getty

    If you've ever found yourself completely devoid of compelling reasons for a friend to meet you at a museum on a gorgeous, beer-on-the-beach sort of Saturday (the dark galleries are at least air conditioned, the tram to the Getty is sort of fun), you have new food fodder: The Getty Restaurant is serv ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 26, 2012

    Phil Rosenthal, Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, on His Journey Through the World of Food

    If you've ever found yourself completely devoid of compelling reasons for a friend to meet you at a museum on a gorgeous, beer-on-the-beach sort of Saturday (the dark galleries are at least air conditioned, the tram to the Getty is sort of fun), you have new food fodder: The Getty Restaurant is serv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Alie and Georgia on Classy Ladies: Vintage Dresses, Boy Humor and Cocktails

    "Swizzle your beef sticks a little slower," the director says to Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark as they stir their jerky-infused tequila Bloody Marys -- a drink they've dubbed the "Beefy Tomato." It's an odd direction, but every move the women make while demonstrating the drink recipe is supposed t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Are Your Plates Making You Fat?

    Can the color of your plates make you eat more or less food? Yes, according to new research done at the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. Lab director Dr. Brian Wansink, Ph.D., and Dr. Koert van Ittersum discovered that diners served themselves more food when there was little contrast between the color of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Our Next Meal: Got Kosher Cafe

    Never mind molecular gastronomy. When you bite into Tunisian-style brik a l'oeuf at Got Kosher Cafe you experience one of the world's great feats of culinary alchemy. Stab into the crunchy, paper-thin crepe (called malsouqua) and the runny egg yolk oozes out, enriching both the potato chip-crisp p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Roti-Go-Round: Southeast Asian Roti from Gindi Thai, Simpang Asia and Penang Malaysian Cuisine

    Somehow, food always seems to taste better when it's shared. And not just as it's passed around a table, but also when it travels across borders. The South Asian Subcontinent has passed down its plates far and wide, providing the inspiration for new dishes through its native ingredients like pepp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Bizarra Capital: Beyond the Border

    Uptown Whittier can sometimes feel deliberately hidden -- a small stretch of mom 'n' pop businesses sequestered from any nearby freeway or convenient access. It's a fine example of late-'80s public planning, too -- a time when a penchant for Spanish Revival and mismatched pastels gave way to its no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    The Orange Blossom: A Cocktail From the More Civilized LA A Recipe

    There is another LA, one where the restaurant food is phenomenal. The flavors are exquisite, the portions proper (neither "bite-sized" nor spilling over the edges of the plate), the prices reasonable and the settings glorious. Further, it is a place where you may get a gourmet meal accompanied by a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    The New Era of (Good) Healthful Cookbooks, Starting With Hero Food And Salad for Dinner

    Those low-fat, low-carb, low-trend-whatever cookbooks will likely always have a market. But yet another positive trickle-down effect of the current farmers market and backyard gardening era has been the really great "healthful" cookbooks we've been seeing recently, Hero Food: How Cooking With Delici ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    6 Things We Bet You Didn't Know About The Boba Truck New Oxnard Store Location

    Since it's launch in 2010, The Boba Truck has become a serious contender in the Southern California bubble tea scene. Patrons know it for its unique flavors like Fuji Apple Green Tea and Rose Oolong Tea -- but there's actually much more behind the four-wheeled tea spewing machine. Turn the page for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Ground Organ Meat: The New Farmers Market Burger Essential From Novy Ranches

    If you've been wondering where all the "organ burgers" have been hiding among the ground beef, turkey and vegan summer grilling options, you're in luck. Novy Ranches recently began selling ground grass-fed organ meat (kidneys, heart and tongue) at the Sunday Brentwood Farmers Market and on its websi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Food Word Clouds: Animal The Joy of Foie Gras

    Today's food word cloud is of this month's menu from Animal, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's Fairfax Avenue restaurant. Look closely and you get a quick idea of what makes the restaurant so much fun: poutine and oxtail, fondue and Spam. You can also see how important foie gras has been to the place, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Katie Carguilo Wins U.S. Barista Championship; Intelligentsia's Charles Babinski Places Second

    Over the weekend, Katie Carguilo took the champion title at the annual U.S.B.C. event -- that would be the United States Barista Championship and not the United States Bowling Congress (though that too apparently had everyone on pins and needles this weekend). Hosted by the Specialty Coffee Associa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Yelp Introduces Yelpy Insights: Find, or Avoid, Places Vegetarians and 20-Somethings Like

    Thirty-something vegetarian looking for restaurants that other 30-something vegetarians also enjoy? Now, there's a Yelp for that: The site recently rolled out two new filters called "Yelpy Insights," which narrow search results based on eateries "liked by vegetarians," as well as those liked by 20- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    10 Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.: Happy Earth Day

    Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22, and regardless of where you stand on the dietary spectrum, consider curbing your carbon footprint with a meal free of animal by-products. Non-profit organization Environmental Working Group found that eating one less burger per week for a year equates to reducing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Thanks for Drinking: Craft Beer Sales Rise Despite Sluggish Overall Market

    The Brewers Association has just released this year's numbers on U.S. beer sales. If you prefer Manifesto Eagle Rock Wit to Blue Moon (which is owned by MillerCoors) the news is good. Beer sales slowed overall, slipping 1.3% by volume. Within the craft beer industry numbers continued to rise with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Food News Roundup: New Farm Food Bill, Gluten-Free Restaurants Dario Cecchini at Valentino

    The Associated Press via the Washington Post: A new farm and food bill is in the works, but it faces an uphill battle. Gilt Taste: More chefs learn to cook without gluten. Daily Dish: A recap of Dario Cecchini's visit to Valentino last night. Loud and meaty.

  • Eat+Drink

    April 19, 2012

    Sushi Restaurants in Los Angeles: Top 10

    The Associated Press via the Washington Post: A new farm and food bill is in the works, but it faces an uphill battle. Gilt Taste: More chefs learn to cook without gluten. Daily Dish: A recap of Dario Cecchini's visit to Valentino last night. Loud and meaty.

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Taqueria Cuernavaca: Land of Eternal Spring

    If you didn't initially order the taco al pastor at Taqueria Cuernavaca, surely you will after the trip to the salsa bar. Because while loading the small plastic cups with salsa and a few dark, dark red chiles de árbol, you'll probably glance into the kitchen. And in said kitchen, you'll spot meat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Tax Day Deals to Mark the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat

    It's Tax Day, one of a few days this Election Year that you'll likely be remotely interested in tearing apart the finer parts of the so-called Buffett Tax and seeing how it would have directly affected you, or not. At least, that interest will hold for a few seconds, until you've stared at your sad ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Chocolate Pie Chart: A Thank You Gift for the One Who Does Your Taxes

    Had there been a chocolate pie chart when we were growing up we might have learned to do math. Instead we had cryptic train equations and SOCATOA, and thus pursued English degrees at liberal arts colleges. So while we still haven't quite figured out how to do income taxes, we have a few dozen adject ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood

    Reading Charlotte Silver's new memoir, Charlotte au Chocolat: Memories of a Restaurant Girlhood is like being in an art museum, gazing at images of another time and place. And that's what Silver, 31, had in mind when she wrote this remembrance of her early years growing up in her mother's four-star ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    American Distilling Institute's 2012 Artisan Spirits Awards Winners

    In certain glossy magazine and high-end spirits competition circles, a vodka's photogenic front-page appeal is as important as what's inside the bottle in determining its award-winning value. But with the American Distilling Institute's annual Artisan American Spirits Awards, which were released las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Eat This Now: Lamb Sandwich ("Fried with Meat") at Beijing Restaurant

    While it isn't as prevalent as pork, lamb turns up quite often on Chinese restaurant menus in the San Gabriel Valley, where lamb dishes range from the seemingly omnipresent cumin lamb skewers to soups, stews and meat pies. There also are restaurants like China Islamic and Omar's, the Uighur place, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    AU 79 Expanding To Pasadena

    Arcadia-based tea house AU 79 Tea House is now expanding. The Taiwanese boba restaurant is set to open their Pasadena store on Friday, April 20. All drinks will be 50% off on opening day. Named AU 79 Tea Express, the new shop is located just across the street from Pasadena City College. "We want to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    L.A. Weekly Food: New Hires and Big (Exciting!) Changes

    Let's start by stating the obvious: There have been big changes to the L.A. Weekly's food section recently. And there are even more on the way. After our longtime critic Jonathan Gold departed for the L.A. Times, we've been nibbling on this and that: a reflection on cookbooks from Roy Choi, a piece ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    10 Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches in Los Angeles

    What is a grilled cheese sandwich? It's comfort food. It's warm and retro-yet-now and endlessly customizable. It's something that can be low-brow, high-end and everything in-between. How is it defined? For the purposes of this guide, we're saying a grilled cheese is a vegetarian sandwich that's ser ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 12, 2012

    L.A. Chefs Can't Get Any Respect From New York Publishers. Could Comme Ca's David Myers Break the Curse?

    What is a grilled cheese sandwich? It's comfort food. It's warm and retro-yet-now and endlessly customizable. It's something that can be low-brow, high-end and everything in-between. How is it defined? For the purposes of this guide, we're saying a grilled cheese is a vegetarian sandwich that's ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    5X5 Collaborative Chef Dinners Begin April 29

    From late April to September, a few of L.A.'s most acclaimed restaurants will offer a six-course tasting menu at $150 per person, not including wine pairings. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Special Olympics. If you're so inclined, stop reading and sigh. What else could be so bo-ring and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival, 626 Night Market, Anne Willan's Cookbook Family Tree, Cherry Blossom Festival The Tripel's "Brews and Bites"

    Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival 250 wineries, 75 chefs (Daniel Boulud and Jacques Pépin among the many stars), a beautiful beach, and you. That's the premise of this fifth annual event, which is packed with tastings, dinners, lectures and activities. Events include a "Say Farewell to Foie Gras" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2012

    Tamales at Guisados

    If you're going to Guisados, the Boyle Heights eatery that, along with Mariscos Jalisco, just won LA Taco's epic Taco Madness 2012, you undoubtedly are going for one, or two, or three of its famed stewed and braised tacos. But tear your eyes away from the long list of available taco fillings chalke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    SushiBots are the Anti-Jiro, Create 3,600 Pieces Per Hour

    There is chef Jiro Ono, in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, dedicating 75 years of his life to the art of sushi, making and serving only one piece at a time at his tiny restaurant in Japan, and then there is this: Sushi robots that churn out 300 medium-sized rolls per hour, or rice mounds for nigri at 3,600 m. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2012

    Passover Pizza: Matzah Pizza from Fresh Brothers

    For people who have been observing Passover since Friday night, right about now you might be experiencing signs of pizza withdrawal. Fear not. Fresh Brothers Pizza has a fix for you --- a special matzah pizza, available until the holiday ends Saturday night. (We'll digress for a moment to note how m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    Coming This Summer: Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats

    Anticipation in the nonfiction food book world depends on your taste in dining companions, past and present: Julia Child, Yottam Ottolenghi, Diana Kennedy, perhaps. And this summer, it will also depend on how you feel about cats. Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in The Company of Cats by Patricia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    "State of Food Blogging" Survey Results: Guess How Much Food Bloggers Earn (You're Right)

    According to the results of the first State of Food Blogging Survey, your friendly neighborhood food blogger can be described as "a married woman in her 30s or 40s living in the United States. While she is either a parent or perhaps on the way to being so, she is likely to be employed full time, par ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2012

    A Last Minute Easter Recipe: Nigel Slater's Lamb Tagine With Apricots

    It's the Friday before Easter weekend (Really?) and you (we) have no idea what to cook on Sunday (oops). Lucky us, Nigel Slater's new book Ripe: A Cook in the Orchard, which hits stands next week, has just shown up at our doorstep. We're considering the book's arrival a premonition. We should real ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    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

  • Blogs

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    2012 IACP Award Winners Announced

    The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2012 award winners at their annual conference last night in Ne ... More >>

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