Gino Angelini

10 Best Octopus Dishes in Los Angeles

Cooking octopus can be tricky. But when done right, it's tender, delicious and loaded with health benefits (low-calorie, lean, vitamin-rich). Japanese and Mediterranean diets are swimming, as it were, with octopus options -- as is this town, where many restaurants have the dish on their menus. Accor ... More >>

5 Essential Italian Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Italian restaurants. This isn't every single Italian or Italian-influenced spot on the list, so make sure you check out the whole thing, but here are five of our favorit ... More >>

Angelini Osteria: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Porchetta Hits L.A.: The Mysteries of Pigsburgh

Porchetta is the thing to eat right now -- but deep roots belie its current trendiness

Now Open: RivaBella in West Hollywoood, From Chef Gino Angelini

RivaBella, a collaboration between Gino Angelini and Innovative Dining Group, opens its doors today for dinner in West Hollywood in the former Hamburger Hamlet location on Sunset. Angelini is the chef behind the celebrated and fairly intimate Italian restaurant Angelini Osteria, and Innovative Dinin ... More >>

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 >>

A November Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

In opening news, Pizza Rev (fast-casual "craft your own" pizza concept) is coming to Woodland Hills on December 5. And, as if we need more butter and sugar to stuff ourselves with this holiday season, Georgetown Cupcakes opened in Beverly Hills and Sprinkles at The Grove, channeling Willy Wonka with ... More >>

The Return of Test Kitchen: Rocco DiSpirito, Neal Fraser Quinn Hatfield

When the first Test Kitchen dinner launched in fall 2010, located in the lower level space that would later become Sotto, few diners -- if any -- realized the magnitude of what was happening. But by the program's end -- after chefs like Jordan Kahn, Javier Plascencia, Walter Manzke and a dozen other ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

75: Porcetto at Sotto

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. 75: Porcetto at Sotto. Porchetta is one of those dishes that, once you've tried it, tends to feature prominently in recurrent dreams. The same genre of dream a ... More >>

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 >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Planned Parenthood Food Fare, French New Orleans, Bacon & Sides, Beer Festival, Foie Gras Dinner, Paris Cookbook Fair

Planned Parenthood Food Fare If watching male politicians go into overdrive trying to limit women's access to birth control left you with a queasy feeling, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare. The headliner is chef Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern) along with an e ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Food Fare: Great Chefs, Great Cause

If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

Angelini Osteria: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Spaghetti Slam: Jollibee vs. Angelini Osteria

​ Despite what legions of new restaurants and food trucks would have you think, it takes a little more than just sticking something in a French roll to call it a fusion bánh mì, and throwing Indian food in a tortilla doesn't make it Mexican fusion. It seems like everyone with a pack of gene ... More >>

Minestraio Closes: Yet Another Restaurant To Come

Mondette reports that Minestraio has closed. The restaurant, which was located in the Orlando Hotel on 3rd Street and was La Terza in a previous incarnation, was owned and run by Gino Angelini (Angelini Osteria). Minestraio, a casual trattoria focusing on handmade pasta, opened almost exactly two ye ... More >>

Q & A With Heirloom-LA's Matthew Poley: Cooking School, The Word 'Chef,' and a Desert Island Meal

J. KoslowMatthew Poley with Tad Weyland​ In the first part of our interview, Matthew Poley discusses his trajectory from washing dishes at Angelini Osteria to cooking in Umbria at Casa Vissani to co-owning the rapidly growing catering company, Heirloom-LA. In this second part, Poley tells us ... More >>

Q & A With Heirloom-LA Chef/Co-Owner Matthew Poley: Lasagna Cupcakes, Cooking in Umbria, Success and Love In a Bowl of Pasta

J. KoslowMatthew Poley of Heirloom-LA​ Born and raised in Auburn, Michigan, Matthew Poley watched hours of cooking shows while his athletic brother delved into sports and scholastics. His grandmother took notice and began giving Poley the yearly Christmas gift he most looked forward to -- a n ... More >>

Q & A With Rustic Canyon Chef Evan Funke, Part 2: Duct Tape as Kitchen Tool, Pasta-making in Italy Home Again

Yesterday we left off the first part of our interview with Rustic Canyon executive chef Evan Funke when he was still at Spago, where he worked his way up the ranks during and after culinary school, and he'd just started telling us about not being able to walk anymore when we stopped. Sorry. Consider ... More >>

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Digging In: Forage Restaurant Opens in Silver Lake

People don't want to throw away food. It just happens, especially combined with the good fortune that our local climate provides when it comes to produce. Forage, a brand new restaurant in the former Town & Country space on Sunset near Hyperion, gives folks with excess fruits and veggies a place to ... More >>

Dinner at the Best Chef's Table In Town: What Would 20 of L.A.'s Top Chefs Dream Up?

Imagine gathering twenty of LA's top chefs -- in one cramped restaurant kitchen -- to cook up a 50-person thank you dinner for a beloved longtime customer. No egos allowed. On the chefs' night off. Free of charge. Oh, and each chef must agree on the menu. Not going to happen? It did. The secret, ... More >>

World Pasta Day This Sunday: Get Out Your Pasta Maker, or Let Gino Angelini Make Your Agnolotti For You

​For anyone currently eating a bowlful of pasta for breakfast, remnants of dinner last night at Drago Centro or Angelini Osteria; if you're getting amatriciana sauce all over your brand new copy of The Silver Spoon: Pasta book (out last week from Phaidon Press); or if you're just eyeing your A ... More >>

My Tagliolini, Your Pappardelle: Talking Pasta Shapes with Chef Gino Angelini

Photo Credit: University Hospitals, Ireland Cancer CenterChef Gino Angelini​Gino Angelini was born in a food lover's paradise, the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. He has been cooking since he was 14 years old and currently runs the highly acclaimed restaurant Angelini Osteria. He took a brie ... More >>

Where to Eat ... PIZZA Now

Casa Bianca, Zelo, Mozza, Bollini and more

Food's Big Night Out: Not Such a Big Night for Los Angeles at the James Beard Awards

Jessica RitzThe scene at Avery Fisher Hall, with Ted Allen in the mix. The James Beard Foundation Awards is the Big Night Out for an industry that's all about nights out. Cooks, writers, restaurateurs, sommeliers, and others in the service of making great food and interpreting it for a hungry public ... More >>

Where to Eat Now

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

Bollini’s Pizzeria

The new pie in town

Where to Eat Now

99 Essential - List Only

Low and Slow

That is the tempo. Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu’s La Casita Mexicana

Italian L.a.

The 20 Best

Ask Mr. Gold: Spaghetti Carbonara

Innard Beauty

Quest for Fire: Out of the Flames

L.A.'s best roasted, grilled sizzled and wood-baked cooking

Smoking Joints

Pizza

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 2

From The Hungry Cat to Providence

New to the List

Beyond Urban Rustic

At his new La Terza, Gino Angelini is giving every other Italian chef in town something to be nervous about

Dinner At Eight

Where to Eat Now

The Year on a Plate

City Beets

Not Just a Mama’s Boy

A great chef takes on home cooking at Angelini Osteria