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    June 19, 2013

    Opening This Summer: Umami Burger in the Arts District

    The neighborhood where Traction meets 3rd will become even more of a foodist attraction come this summer when Umami Burger opens just steps away from Wurstkuche, The Pie Hole, and Angel City Brewery. The new Arts District spot marks the 15th Southern California post in Adam Fleischman's ever-growing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2013

    Opening Soon: Top Round Roast Beef in Mid-Wilshire

    We're well-served by tacos, burgers, and ramen in L.A. But when it comes to a classic roast beef sandwich, our main source is probably Arby's. Which says a lot. This could all change come Monday, June 17, when Top Round Roast Beef opens at the corner of La Brea and Olympic. The roast beef featured ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2013

    What's in Season at the Farmers Market: GMO Blues First Summer Corn

    When you Google Monsanto, the website link has both the company's name and its slogan -- A Sustainable Agriculture Company. It's a website that works very hard from the first click to reframe the conversation around the most controversial issue in worldwide agriculture. Perhaps with good reason. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2013

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Morels, Kind Of

    Acclaimed American poet William Jay Smith has so far painted the most accurate picture of the morel mushroom, in a short excerpt from his 1969 nature poems series. "Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up overnight -- these mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs upro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2013

    5 Great Old School Burger Stands in Los Angeles

    There's something special about the walk-up burger stand, that post-WWII staple of American eating that has slowly started to fade from view. There are still zillions of madre-and-padre burger operations around Los Angeles, pressing beef into ageless cast iron griddles, but many of them have opted f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2013

    22 Mother's Day Food Drink Specials (Bottomless Mimosas! Cupcakes! Tiaras!!)

    Mother's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you haven't gotten that one figured out yet, maybe it's time to start planning. Depending on your age and demographic, a crayoned card could work, or maybe your kid's card and a stiff drink. If you want something a bit more professional, turn the page for a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2013

    Now Open: David LeFebvre's Fishing With Dynamite in Manhattan Beach

    Seafood has been a large part of David LeFevre's life, beginning with childhood summers in Virginia to his repertoire as a chef at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago and Water Grill in downtown L.A. It was such that when he opened Manhattan Beach Post he noticed there was a very definite expectation for i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2013

    6 Favorite Italian American Delis for Cold Cut Sandwiches

    On May 28, the FDA will lift the USDA ban on imported Italian cured pork products. This means we'll finally get to enjoy artisanal salami from parts of Italy like Emilia-Romagna and Piedmonte. Although according to The New York Times, it remains to be seen how much will be made available to us, give ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Q & A With David Miscimarra: The Hollywood Pies Owner Talks Deep Pizza What to Expect at Their New Dine-in Location, Now Open

    If you drive by the new Hollywood Pies dine-in location, which officially soft opened this past weekend in West Los Angeles, you just might miss it. Taking up a humble 26-seat residence that fittingly used to house former pizza dive Pizza Mania, the location now sports a modest square sign of their ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 21, 2013

    littlefork Review: If You're Craving New England in Los Angeles, Jason Travi's Restaurant Is the Place To Be

    It's also a great place to get a drink in Hollywood

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2013

    Banadir Somali Restaurant: More Fun With Goat in Inglewood

    At first glance, Banadir Somali Restaurant looks more like Somalian community center than a restaurant. White bars cover the shaded and tinted windows. The main entrance leads to a long hallway with a kitchen off to the left. You have to look around a bit before noticing a door that leads to the din ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2013

    Happy National Pi Day: Talent Show, Pie-Eating Contest A Recipe for Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

    Still dreaming of those idyllic high school days of talent shows, math problems and after-school slices of pie? Yeah, we're not either, but this Thursday night at Machine Project, you can have your strawberry rhubarb pie and eat it too -- at the first-ever American Pi-dol talent show and pie-eating ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2013

    10 Best Crab Cakes in Los Angeles

    Recipes for delicate cakes of minced and bound seafood are as old as, well, maritime cooking. The crab version we mostly eat today -- crab, mayonnaise, breadcrumbs, eggs, seasoning and some onion, gathered up and pan-fried or broiled -- is a colonial American recipe that hasn't changed much since it ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 5, 2013

    Elemental Superfood Seedbars: Gluten-free and Still Delicious

    Three years ago, Nicole Anderson started making Elemental Superfood Seedbars out of necessity. The mother of a child with autism, Anderson noticed dramatic shifts in her daughter's behavior when she ate wheat, dairy and sugar, the cornerstone ingredients for almost all conventional snack foods. So A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2013

    800 Degrees Opening in Santa Monica this Fall

    A new 800 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria will set up its wood-burning oven in Santa Monica this fall, just a little over a year after the first one opened its doors in Westwood Village. Slated for a 5,000-square-feet space at 120 Wilshire Boulevard, the latest outpost will feature a take-out area and a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2013

    10 Best Dishes in L.A. for Homesick New Yorkers

    It's easy to start nodding off when people drag out the old "New York vs. Los Angeles" debate; it's a tired one, and largely a comparison of Big Apples to orange groves, anyway. But after Bon Appetit listed its 20 most important restaurants in America and New York outshone L.A. by a factor of six, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2013

    Horse Meat Found in IKEA Swedish Meatballs

    Across the Atlantic, the horse meat scandal continues to rock Europe -- and now it appears that IKEA's Swedish Köttbullar meatballs are the latest ready-made product found to contain horse meat. The Czech State Veterinary Administration alerted the public to traces of horse DNA found in meatballs p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2013

    Now Open: Big Al's Halal Pizzeria in Maywood

    Some say that L.A. is having it's pizza moment. Big Al's Halal Pizzeria entered the pizza fray on Saturday, Feb. 2 with a grand opening block party. Although, you might ask,"What exactly is halal pizza?" The second question you may ask is "Why halal pizza and in Maywood of all places?"

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2013

    Yoshinoya Beef Bowl: What Does It Really Taste Like?

    Let me preface all of this by saying that I've never been to a Yoshinoya Beef Bowl, and I'm willing to bet that you haven't either. In fact, I don't know anyone who has dined at a Yoshinoya Beef Bowl, and my contacts folder reads like a who's-who of questionable eaters. Yet, inexplicably, those oran ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2013

    Trader Joe's Mexican Chocolate How to Make Mexican Hot Chocolate

    Trader Joe's is known for traveling the globe to find a wide and ever-changing variety of foods. They recently went next door to bring back Organic Stone-Ground Mexican-Style Dark Chocolate, which has the shape, taste and paper packaging of traditional south-of-the-border chocolates. There are two ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    5 California Winemakers On The Best "Ripe and Fleshy" Valentine's Chocolate Wine Pairings

    Chocolate and wine. Could there be a more classic Valentine Day's pairing? There's one small problem: "The flavors of [dark] chocolate and wine aren't always that compatible," as a Food and Wine article summarized. Sure, there's that tannins on tannins thing, a double hit of bitter acidity in the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2013

    Where's the (Piedmontese) Beef? At Star King in Koreatown

    Where would you show off an elite variety of beef? Not in some flashy high-end dining spot but in the most beef-centric part of Los Angeles -- Koreatown. There, it's hard to find a place that doesn't serve bulgogi and galbi, and the buzz words are grass-fed, Wagyu, Kobe and Black Angus. That is, un ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2013

    What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Winter Hedgehog Mushrooms

    Damages from this past week's arctic push haven't been fully assessed yet, but you can be certain that tender greens like spinach and lettuces (already showing higher prices) and the ever-present artichoke harvests are first among the lost. One wild crop that does do well during the occasionally ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 10, 2013

    BierBeisl Brings Something Different to Beverly Hills

    Austrian chef Bernhard Mairinger has brilliantly old-school technique

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2012

    Langer's Pastrami Delivery: From L.A. to You

    The pastrami sandwich at Langer's Delicatessen is legendary. So delicious that it made our "100 Favorite Dishes" list. So distinctive that Nora Ephron deemed it "the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world." So beloved that Angelenos regularly queue up for a taste -- and out-of-towners bemoan thei ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2012

    Chefs Cook At Home, The Holiday Edition: Sotto's Zach Pollack A Recipe For Brisket

    This week and next, we'll be featuring the holiday food traditions of L.A. chefs. Today, Sotto's Zach Pollack tells us about his relationship with brisket. "Growing up a reformed Jew in West Los Angeles, I developed a relationship with brisket around the same time that I developed a relationship wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2012

    100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

    Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2012

    Storefront Brings the Old World to Los Feliz

    Lately I've been thinking a lot about an online trailer for an upcoming documentary by Erik Anjou called Deli Man, which chronicles the culture of the American delicatessen through interviews with such L.A. authorities as Norm Langer, Jackie and Marc Canter and, of course, Larry King. (If you can sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2012

    Bake This Now: 3 Must-Have Holiday Cookie Recipes

    Take a look at the calendar. It's time to do some major baking. Hanukkah beings Saturday; after next weekend, you'll be down to the Christmas shipping wire. And for those of us who simply use the season as a joyful excuse to eat more cookies, we'll be more than happy to take some of those Röckenwag ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2012

    Float Opens in Pasadena: A Hidden, Well-Curated Cafe

    At first inspection, the recently opened Float in Pasadena might appear to be simple and cozy new-wave coffeeshop -- one that serves locally roasted Handsome Coffee and tea from LA Mill. In this part of Pasadena, wedged into an alley of the South Lake Avenue shopping district which looks like it cou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2012

    6 Tasty Cold-Cut Subs Under $5 (Take That Subway!)

    When I was growing up, there was a little mom-and-pop supermarket in my town called Rainbow Market (over Thanksgiving I learned it had been recently replaced by a Wal-Mart, so it goes). As the main grocery in a small suburban town, it was the hub of most food shopping, and before any dedicated sandw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2012

    Top 5 Gifts for Bread Bakers: Your Kitchen, My Boulangerie

    For some of us, baking bread is something that we do without much thought, whenever it's cold enough to crank the oven, for giving to friends, when our kids demand it, or as a coping mechanism (see: the recent election, long distance relationships, Steve Nash). The smell of bread baking is a fundame ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    The Salty Six: The American Heart Assn. Names 6 Common High Sodium Foods

    You've probably heard of The Magnificent Seven, but what about The Salty Six? The saltiest foods might not be the ones you expect (French fries? Pretzels? Flamin Hot Cheetos?), according to the American Heart Assn. The group has singled out the "Salty Six" -- common foods that may be loaded with ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2012

    Localita & The Badasserie: Vegans Among Us

    Have you ever tried a vegan Reuben before? It's the kind of sandwich that might encourage a scoff or smirk from the hardened carnivore, but for the past three years it's been one of the most popular items at Locali, the city's first "conscious convenience store" in Los Feliz, which carries a bevy of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2012

    Abby's Millstone Baking Company Opens: Great Bread in Agoura Hills A Challah-Eating Contest!

    For people who track the vicissitudes of bread in this town, Abby Franke's bakery in Agoura Hills has always been on the radar. For many years, the German-born baker ran Stoneground Bakery, a tiny shop in a strip mall off the 101 that provided terrific hand-formed challah and old world breads made f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2012

    Comic Seth Front: Using Deli Foods To Explore Jewish American History One Nosh At A Time

    While many comics get their material from headlines, L.A. comedian Seth Front draws his inspiration from another source: deli menus. For the past two years, Front has crisscrossed the country giving talks on the culinary history of American Jews of Eastern European descent, using delicatessen foods ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2012

    5 Puzzling Kitchen Mysteries Solved: Screwy Egg Shells Bright Green Seeds

    CSI: Squid Ink is on the scene, out to solve some cold (and hot) kitchen cases. These are problems that have perplexed us for some time. From egg shells that can't be removed, to sunflower seeds that turn cookies green, we figured there had to be scientific explanations for these culinary conundrums ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 18, 2012

    Salumi Night at Mozza's Scuola di Pizza

    Mozza's Scuolo di Pizza dazzles thanks to chef Chad Colby -- and his salumi bar

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2012

    Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 2, Sauces

    Squid Ink is going back to basics with Martha Stewart's Cooking School, airing every weekend through the end of the year on PBS. Join us. See also: Martha Stewart's Cooking School: Episode 1, Eggs Martha Stewart believes in studying the classics, she says, as images of Einstein, Shakespeare and Ab ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    The New Pastrami Sandwich 3 Great Places to Get One

    This week we're launching a new series called Food of the Moment which devotes itself to an ingredient or dish currently experiencing an boom at local eateries. We'll then eat it, dissect it, discuss it -- and tell you where you can get some. In a Slate piece back in September, Rachel Levin chronic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    Kid In A Candy Shop: Spending $10 At Dylan's Candy Bar

    To a 9-year-old, $10 is a lot of money. It's 5 weeks' worth of allowance (if all your chores are done). It's the kind of sum you only come across in one fell swoop occasionally, perhaps tumbling out of a birthday card from great-grandparents, or given as spending money at some Disney resort shop. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2012

    35: "Sandwich" at Roma Italian Deli

    Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 35: "Sandwich" at Roma Italian Deli: If locating the best golden Sicilian olive oil, some buttery Prosciutto di Parma, or rounds of garlic-flecked m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    Feria de los Moles This Weekend: Puebla vs. Oaxaca

    Last year's Feria de los Moles (or Mole Fair) at L.A.'s Olvera St. drew 30,000 people -- and with good reason. The annual event, now in its fifth year and happening this Sunday, Oct. 7 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., celebrates this classic Mexican dish with food, music, dance, workshops, and even a friendl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2012

    10 Best Cheap Eats in Los Angeles

    As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, yesterday. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2012

    Game Day: 3 New Books On Snacks, Sandwiches and Beer

    We don't normally take what arrives in the mail as a sign to buy Dodgers tickets. But a beer, snack and great sandwich book from different publishers, all on the same day? Two are cookbooks, Salty Snacks and Emeril's Kicked-Up Sandwiches, the third is The World Atlas of Beer, a coffee table-sized be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2012

    Read This Now: Michael Ruhlman on Food Writing

    Does food writing matter? It's a question that food writers ask themselves in moments of self-doubt, and it's a question Monica Bhide asked on her blog back in August. When there's so much going on in the world, does what we eat and cook warrant our time and attention as writers? Since Bhide posed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2012

    10 Best Seafood Tacos in Los Angeles

    It used to be, a dozen years ago or so, that there weren't that many spots in town where you could find a decent seafood taco, much less a great one. Fast forward to 2012, and fish and shrimp tacos have gone through something of an evolution. There are plenty of fish in the sea now; you can barely ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2012

    53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich

    Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich. Quinn and Karen Hatfield's newish casual place on La Brea, The Sycamore Kitchen, is an exercise in incommensurateness, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2012

    Nabisco Introduces Candy Corn Oreos Destroys Halloween

    There's an old Louis Black stand-up rant where he theorizes that all the candy corn that was ever made was created in 1911 -- and it simply gets recycled by the candy corn companies year after year, like the Halloween version of the eternally forwarded Christmas fruitcake. Yes, candy corn sucks. Es ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2012

    Organic Food Is Not Better for You, Study Finds

    People who purchase organic food because they think it is more nutritious just got handed their heads of lettuce on a platter by Stanford University scientists. In a recent study, the researchers found that not only is organic food not better for you, it is not even any less prone to bacterial conta ... More >>

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