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May 6, 2013
Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!
The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2013
The 2013 James Beard Chef Awards: Los Angeles Gets The Shaft
The James Beard Chef Awards have just wrapped up in New York City, and Los Angeles took home zero awards. It's hard to resist feeling kinda whiny when looking at the list of winners and considering that New York City got 7 awards and accounted for 50% of all the non-region-specific awards (as well ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2013
5 Restaurant Picks From Red Medicine's Jordan Kahn
Where The Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we check in with Red Medicine's chef, Jordan Kahn. Jordan Kahn says he hasn't taken a regular day off since October. And since his restaurant is open until 2 a.m., that m ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2013
Machneyuda Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon Bring Israeli Cuisine Center Stage in L.A.
Check out Anne Fishbein's photo gallery of Assaf Granit and Uri Navon's Israeli dinner. On their first trip to Los Angeles, Israeli chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon wasted no time in getting to know some of this town's culinary habits. They shopped at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, partnered with ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2013
Is This 500-Year-Old African Sculpture Worth $1 Million? LACMA's Collectors Committee Gets to Decide
See also: *LACMA Collectors Committee's Battle Royale *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The Resnick Pavilion, the newest building and the only single-story one on the Los Angeles County Museum's campus, was closed to the public this weekend. But if you looked in the window, you would have see ... More >>
Eat+Drink
April 4, 2013
Allumette Review: Miles Thompson's Echo Park Restaurant Is Outrageously Ambitious
The Vagrancy Project founder has talent to spare
Blogs
February 21, 2013
Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre L.A. Restaurant Overview
On a recent episode of his podcast "Go Fork Yourself," Andrew Zimmern -- host of the Bizarre Foods series -- reveals his list of Los Angeles restaurant picks in something less sensational than we've come to expect from the Travel Channel guide to unfamiliar foods around the world. In fact, it's so s ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
James Beard Semifinalists 2013 Announced: The L.A. Edition
The James Beard Foundation has just announced their semifinalists for the 2013 chef and restaurant awards. To be clear, this is not a list of nominees, but rather a list from which the nominees will be chosen. L.A. has quite a showing, in the national categories as well as in our region. For Bes ... More >>
Blogs
January 18, 2013
Where The Chefs Eat: Night Market's Kris Yenbamroong (Otherwise Known as Banh Mi Santa Claus)
Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we talk to Kris Yenbamroong, chef and owner of Night Market, about his regular spots. Bánh Mì My Tho / Bánh Mì Buu Dien: "There's this thing I do -- it involves dri ... More >>
Blogs
January 8, 2013
Where the Chefs Eat: Sotto's Steve Samson
Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, Steve Samson, chef (along with Zach Pollack) at Sotto, tells us his favorite spots to eat these days. Although he's known for his unflinchingly Italian cooking at Sotto, o ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2013
Dana Goodyear, L.A.-Based New Yorker Writer, Has a New Book of Poetry
See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Los Angeles readers may be forgiven for thinking that Dana Goodyear is a food writer. In The New Yorker, where Goodyear has been a staff writer since 2007, she's written about Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, the chef ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2012
5 Overlooked L.A. Dining Trends of 2012 (That Will Change the Way You Eat in 2013)
Every year dining trends come and go -- on the suface 2012 might not have looked like the most eventful year, aside from the foie gras ban and some high-profile restaurant closures. But like the Santa Ana's, the winds of change are forever blowing in L.A., and the seeds of what will likely arrive in ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2012
5: Crispy Pig Head at Animal
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. 5. Crispy Pig Head at Animal. A certain brand of excess has quite rightly given Animal a reputation as a purveyor of dude food: meat-heavy, no-holds ... More >>
Blogs
November 14, 2012
Top 10 Los Angeles Chefs to Follow on Instagram
Sure, you can see the beautiful dishes that your favorite chefs spend hours making in real life. When, perhaps you go to their restaurants and actually eat their food. But since we often spend more time looking at pretty pictures of dinner than we do consuming it, the tech gods have given us Instagr ... More >>
Blogs
November 8, 2012
Song of the South: Animal, Son of a Gun, and the Real Takeaway of the Southern Food Trend
This week, in place of a review, we're running an essay about the Southern food trend in L.A. and beyond. A few weeks ago, the Southern Foodways Alliance held its annual fall Symposium, and the chefs asked to cook the dinner that kicked off the event were L.A.'s own Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. Wha ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2012
6 Things We Learned From the Roy Choi Ludo Lefebvre Talk
As part of the ALOUD series at the L.A. Central Library, two of the L.A. dining scene's most controversial and beloved figures got together on Wednesday evening to finally set the record straight about their respective unorthodox paths through the culinary world during a program titled "Taking the K ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
The Chef's Library: Ludo Lefebvre Variations Culinaires
Ludo Lefebvre is a busy dude. His restaurant collaboration with Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo is set to open in the next few months, with a possible fried chicken concept to follow. And his new cookbook, LudoBites, hit shelves last week. In celebration of the new book, we thought it would ... More >>
Blogs
September 5, 2012
Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle
Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2012
10 Best Foie Gras Dishes in Los Angeles
On July 1, the boom finally drops: The country's first statewide ban on foie gras goes into effect in California, making it illegal to serve or sell. For more on this, check out our critic Besha Rodell's consideration of the Last Days of Foie Gras. In honor of the work by chefs and kitchen staff do ... 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.
Blogs
May 1, 2012
California C.H.E.F.S. Host Foie Gras Super Dinner
In protest of California's rapidly approaching foie gras ban, C.H.E.F.S. (the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards), an organization that sounds like an maniacal conglomerate out of a James Bond film, or perhaps a culinary-slanted take on the Avengers, announced yesterday that it will ... More >>
Blogs
March 26, 2012
[Updated] UCLA's Science & Food Series: Or, Why There's A Modernist in Your Soup (or at Your Dinner Table)
Update: The lovely folks at UCLA have just told us that there are still spots available for the June 9 lectures. Maybe go reserve one now. General admission is $20; UCLA students get in free with a valid student ID. This semester is a pretty good time to be a "non-science student" at UCLA: 50 lucky ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2012
Life Underground: Hidden Dinner at the Vagrancy Project
Has the age of the pop-up restaurant already passed its prime? These days, when a seat at LudoBites garners the same demand as playoff tickets at Staples Center and Wolvesmouth chef Craig Thornton finds himself rebuffing weekly offers from Vegas investors looking to commercialize his underground din ... More >>
Blogs
December 14, 2011
10 Food Predictions for 2012
2011 was quite a year in the Los Angeles dining scene. If you had told us a year ago that we'd be eagerly wolfing down plates of alligator schnitzel, polenta sushi, and corned beef tongue sandwiches from a Michael Voltaggio shop with the word "sack" in its title, we wouldn't have believed you ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Yotam Ottolenghi Cooks Vegetarian: At Animal, of All Places
You could file this one under the heading Fusion Cooking or maybe just Irony. Yotam Ottolenghi, the British chef and cookbook author, most recently of the book Plenty, will be in town next month cooking a dinner at Animal. This is funny because Ottolenghi is justly famous for cooking stunni ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2011
James Beard 2011 Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition
Award season is approaching again, and we don't just mean the Oscars. The nominations for Food & Wine's best new chef award opened yesterday, and now the James Beard Foundation has announced the semifinalists for their restaurant and chef awards. Here's the complete (very long) list. The Be ... More >>
Blogs
November 18, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Vendy Awards Update: Nina's Foods the Winner
Midtown Lunch LANina's Foods wins Vendy Awards The 1st Annual L.A. Vendy Awards were on Saturday, and Nina's Foods, from Nina Garcia, was named the winner, after serving pambazos and handmade, grilled quesadillas. The judges for the event were Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA; The Teenage G ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
Jeremy Fox Brings Vegetables (Vegetables!) to Animal
SF WeeklyChef Jeremy FoxAs we mentioned in our March interview with Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Jeremy Fox, the highly acclaimed former chef of Ubuntu in Napa, is coming to Animal. Fox will be working with the Animal chefs on a vegetable intensive, prixe fix, multi-course menu from May 17th t ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2010
LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Some Wine With Your Bacon
This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of a flute of brut rosé Champagne taken at Animal, comes to you courtesy of photographer Love & Lemonade. Something to drink with your offal, your poutine, your foie gras loco moco. And proof that Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook do in fact serve something that does not ... More >>
Blogs
November 30, 2009
José Andrés Is Your Guest DJ: Molecular Gastronomy to Elton John
Ever wonder what's on José Andrés' playlist? You figure he must be listening to something cutting edge while he's thinking up cotton candy foie gras and playing with the nitro canisters at The Bazaar, right? Try Elton John's Daniel. We know this because the Spanish chef shares his personal soundtr ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2009
Animal's Vinny Dotolo Added to Jonathan Gold Carnivore! Panel With Feniger, Becerra and Peel -- Saturday Noon at LA Weekly LA Weekend. Plus, Kogi Taco Truck on Friday and Dogs From Let's Be Frank on Saturday
Anne FishbeinAnimal's Vinny Dotolo, the scarfed one, will be talking meat. Vinny Dotolo and partner Jon Shook are incapable of keeping their fleshly tendencies out of every possible course at their Fairfax restaurant Animal -- consider that their most talked-about dessert is the bacon-chocolate cru ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2009
Seen and Tasted: Nancy Silverton, Neal Fraser, the Boys of Animal and More Meet "L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook" Author at 3rd and Fairfax
L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook: Meet Me at 3rd and Fairfax by JoAnn Cianciulli brings the focus of L.A.'s famous gathering place back to where it belongs. Instead of waxing poetic about the dancing fountain, shiny retro trolley, and other tools of faux urbanism that have hogged attention si ... More >>
Eat+Drink
January 1, 2009
The 10 Best Dishes of 2008
Hot dogs and hominy, blowfish and a fine cup of joe
Eat+Drink
August 28, 2008
Animal: Boys in the Hood
Feeding Fairfax's Dude District

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