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Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Cocktail Competition, USC Fair Food Fest, L.A. Weekly's Plate Lucques Cassoulet Night

Cocktail Competition Who can make the tastiest red-colored cocktail? In a benefit for Go Red for Women, an American Heart Association initiative, bartenders from Marina del Rey restaurants Café del Rey, Hal's Bar and Grill, Chart House, James Beach and Tony P's will compete to create the best vodka ... More >>

Plate: LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food and Wine Event on March 3

For all of you who drive by the Petersen Automotive Museum, not to check out the cars but to reminisce about all the gluttony that has gone on there in previous years, it's time to mark your calendars. Once again, the car palace will be the site of LA Weekly's annual food and wine event, formerly kn ... More >>

23: The Tasting Kitchen's Pork Rillettes

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. 23. The Tasting Kitchen's Pork Rillettes: Deciding what to order at The Tasting Kitchen, the Abbott Kinney restaurant run by chef Casey Lane that ha ... More >>

Manhattan Beach Post's Couscous Salad

The couscous at Manhattan Beach Post -- how have we survived without it until now? The flavors are so right. Perhaps you remember that "OMG I love this", feeling from the first time you had the Crying Tiger Beef at Jitlada or a Kogi taco? Yeah, like that. If you were part of the overheated throng a ... More >>

Cacao Mexicatessen's Uni Chile Güero Rellenitos

If you were lucky enough to be one of the first 20 people to visit Cacao Mexicatessen's booth at The Gold Standard this year, you probably tasted this magnificent dish. A tender yellow chile is fried, peeled, slivered and then topped with enough raw uni paste to rival the richness of a thousand egg ... More >>

Gold Standard 2012: Photo Slideshow

The temperature climbed into the 80s, but that didn't diminish the enthusiasm of about 1,800 people gathered at the rooftop parking lot of the Peterson Auto Museum last Sunday for Gold Standard: the L.A. Weekly's food-sampling bonanza featuring 40 restaurants picked by Jonathan Gold. Even Bludso's B ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Lychee Panna Cotta at Gold Standard

This LA Weekly flickr pool photo, by Misty O. of nomsnotbombs, was just one of many delectable sights at yesterday's Gold Standard. Although maybe the most colorful. The lychee panna cotta topped with nasturtiums came from Starry Kitchen, one of 40 restaurants invited to participate in the food bona ... More >>

The Tar Pit Closes: To Open Again Soon, Somewhere

The Tar Pit, Mark Peel's retro cocktail bar and restaurant, served its last pickled deviled eggs and clams casino and Vieux Carre on Saturday night. Open on La Brea Avenue -- conveniently located a few blocks north of Peel's restaurant Campanile -- since late 2009, The Tar Pit closed because of a pr ... More >>

The Spice Table: Happy Anniversary A Week of Fun

If you have not yet been to The Spice Table, chef Bryant Ng's utterly beautiful brick house of a restaurant in Little Tokyo, you might try finally getting around to in next week. Although why you haven't yet gone to eat the marvelous marrow bones, or Ng's take on dishes from his native Singapore or, ... More >>

The Gold Standard

Jonathan Gold Is Leaving the L.A. Weekly

Mr. Gold, we hardly knew thee.Anne Fishbein​Yes, it's true. The Weekly's longtime food critic, Jonathan Gold, has accepted a job with the L.A. Times. He'll be leaving here in a few weeks. We're sad to see him go, as Gold is not just the first -- and only -- food critic to win a Pulitzer Prize ... More >>

The Gold Standard 2012: Save The Date, Start Fasting

Anne Fishbeinglasses at the 2011 Gold Standard​It's that time of year again. No, not movie award time -- note to foodists: you may want to bring a bag of macarons to The Artist, just to keep yourself awake -- but time to gear up for the 2012 Gold Standard, that glorious event in which Jonathan ... More >>

[Updated:] LA Weekly's First Annual Pancake Breakfast

Flickr/stormgrasspancakes​ Update: 7/25, 2:30 p.m. A few more people will be cooking your pancake breakfast next month. Specifically, Salt's Cure, 101 Noodle Express and Glowfish Truck. Which should help answer some pressing questions about bacon. The issue of coffee is also coming into focus, ... More >>

Hipsteropolis Rising: Taste of the Eastside Food Festival

Anne FishbeinAn egg sandwich from Auntie Em's​ Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. Like UCLA football (not arrived) a ... More >>

Q & A With Gilberto Cetina: Chichen Itza, His New Cookbook, The Scoville Scale The Happiness of Chowhound Guys

Facebook/Gilberto CetinaGilberto Cetina​Anyone who loves cochinita pibil, the Yucatecan dish of pork roasted in banana leaves, knows the well-traveled route to Chichen Itza in the Mercado La Paloma near USC just south of downtown, which also houses Ricardo Zarate's Mo-Chica. Chef-owner Gilbert ... More >>

The Manila Machine: Off the Streets

Manila MachineMarvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johnson​ The Manila Machine, this city's first Filipino food truck, parked for the last time this past Friday and went on indefinite hiatus. The announcement, which was not, sadly, an April Fool's Joke, was made by Marvin Gapultos and Nastassia Johns ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Pho Filet

Ask Mr. Gold: Take Two Down, Pass 'em Around

​Dear Mr. Gold: My fiancee and I are trying to eat everything on your 99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die list, but we noticed that a couple of of the restaurants have closed down: Anisette Brasserie and Pho Bac. Can you suggest restaurants to replace these two? --Joseph Saranglao

From Food Blog to Food Truck to Cookbook: Marvin Gapultos Gets a Book Deal

screenshot of Burnt Lumpia post​ Local food blogger Marvin Galputos, who runs the Filipino food blog Burnt Lumpia, is having a good run lately. The Filipino food truck, Manila Machine, that he started with fellow food blogger Nastassia Johnson (Let Me Eat Cake), participated in the 3rd annual ... More >>

Last Night: 2011 Gold Standard [Photos]

"I can't hold my stomach in anymore," we heard someone, a man, exclaim as he rested between bites at yesterday afternoon's Gold Standard. The third annual tasting event, held once again at Petersen Auto Museum, featured dozens of local restaurants with dishes on offer ranging from the baroque wi ... More >>

Last Night: The Drinks of Gold Standard 2011

B. Mesirow​ We are well aware that yesterday's Gold Standard was all about the food, even in the week of the cocktail. However, those of you who overlooked the various adult beverages offered at the event missed a rare and awesome opportunity to drink large quantities of high class, top quali ... More >>

More Fun With Food Trucks: Truckit Fest at Union Station

Flickr/ScrunchlefaceUnion Station​ If you're really good at coordinating your food events, there's another great one this weekend, in addition to, of course, the Gold Standard. The Truckit Fest (@truckitfest) is this Sunday at Union Station. The food truck festival is the first of what will be ... More >>

Your Gold Standard 2011 PSA: Yes, There Are Still Tickets Available

​ Put down that hamburger or plate of duck carnitas taco right now. Because if you're not fasting already, or existing on a movie star diet of consommé and salads, you maybe need to be. No, not because you can't move after last night's Oscar bash (your James Franco and pot brownies joke here ... More >>

The Gold Standard 2011: Final Restaurant List (Drumroll Please)

​ If you've not yet cleared out your dance card for Sunday, March 6th, bought your tickets to the 2011 Gold Standard, and set the date for your fast, you are herewith reminded. This year's happy event, the third annual Gold Standard, will take place on Sunday March 6th, from 1-5 p.m., at the P ... More >>

[Updated] The Gold Standard 2011: So Much Food, So Little Time

​ Update: The Weekly just announced a special presale for this year's Gold Standard tickets, starting today. Save $10 on both regular and VIP tickets. Enter promo code GOLD 11 when purchasing online or calling 1-888-878-9651. Discount available only until 10 a.m. on Thursday, January 20. The ... More >>

Barista Champ Nik Krankl Coming to Gelato Bar in Studio City

Barista extraoridinaire Nik Krankl, who just won the Intelligentsia barista championship for wholesalers in Chicago, will be showing off his steaming, swirling and pulling talents as guest barista at Gelato Bar in Gelato Bar's Studio City (4342 1/2 Tujunga Ave. Studio City, CA 91604). Pop in if you ... More >>

Ears to Good Friends: 5 of the Best Pigs' Ears in Los Angeles

LA Weekly flickr pool/djjewelzpigs' ears at the Lazy Ox​ When did pig's ear begin to take over the culinary universe? Was it Eric Frechon's delicate curls of pig's ear on the best-of-hog plate at the Bristol in Paris? The whole deep-fried ear April Bloomfield introduced at the Spotted Pig in G ... More >>

City of Angles

Into the Abyss

Another week in the life of Jonathan Gold's belly

There Will Be Belly: The 2nd Annual Gold Standard Food and Wine Event

If you happened to be looking for Octavio Becerra, Ludo Lefebvre, Leo Bulgarini or Susan Feniger yesterday, they were all at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and no, they weren't ogling over the Hot Wheels Hall of Fame. Ludo was busy churning cornichon sorbet out of his Pacojet to adorn cups of cold ... More >>

A Survivor's Guide to Food Festivals: Hydrate, Recycle, Pace Yourself & Don't Stalk The Chefs

Between the Gold Standard, Taste of the Nation L.A., and the Grilled Cheese Invitational, Los Angeles has hosted enough themed foodie conventions to provoke Christopher Guest's next mockumentary. Next weekend, the first annual Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off kicks off in K-Town, and on August 20th, ... More >>

LA People 2009: Buckskin Blues — Pat Boone

The Downtown Boom, Phase 2: Rolling Out the Blood-Red Carpet -- Bullfighters and Happy Hours Galore

Happy hour, happy surroundings -- Rivera's tequila-lined Sangre Room.After staying apace with the rash of bar and restaurant openings in downtown Los Angeles over the past few months, now it's time to track the specials and events that these joints are offering to encourage the ballyhooed era of the ... More >>

GO LA: Gay Fusion, Jackie Kashian and the Gold Standard Food Festival

Plus, lots more to see, hear and consume in town, March 6-12

GOLD DIGGER?

#1 Combo

A full serving of Rauschenberg, with a side of Youngblood and Hundley