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Loire

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    March 23, 2012

    Walt Disney Concert Hall's Secret Garden: From Patina Chef Tony Esnault

    Restaurant chef's gardens are popping up in unusual places, but nowhere more unlikely than in the midst of downtown L.A.'s skyscrapers. Flourishing on an upper level of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall is an outdoor rooftop garden -- public at that -- that lets visitors take in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    LudoBites 8: The Wine List

    LudoBites 8 (with its eminently more sane booking policy) debuted last night, which means a new wine list curated by Domaine LA along with chef Ludo and his wife, Krissy. The big news: the wine list now includes beer and cider (a Normandy cide from Domaine du Manoir in Montreuil, France, to be preci ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Lou: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    LudoBites 8 (with its eminently more sane booking policy) debuted last night, which means a new wine list curated by Domaine LA along with chef Ludo and his wife, Krissy. The big news: the wine list now includes beer and cider (a Normandy cide from Domaine du Manoir in Montreuil, France, to be preci ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2011

    Best Smoked Salmon: Michel Cordon Bleu

    jgarbeeSmoked Fish From Michel Cordon Bleu​Michel Blanchet has all of the markings a pedigreed French chef, a lingering Loire Valley accent and cherubic foie gras paunch among them. But the owner of Michel Cordon Bleu fell for the Scottish side of the hors d'oeuvres plate when he opened his Le ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Inside Seal's Rich and Famous Life: House For Sale

    ​Celebrities--they're just like us! Living at the mercy of the real estate market, subject to the whims of the Kuznet cycle, only at a higher plateau. Seal and Heidi Klum bought a foreclosed home at an auction for $14.9 million back in December of 2010. Now they're listing their Beverly Hills ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    David Haskell's Magnum Wine Pairings: Or, Adventures in Apricots, Uni & Potato Chips

    emdot/Flickr​ Los Angeles sommelier David Haskell (Le Cirque, Bin 8945) -- whose Magnum event with chef Joseph Mahon at Royal/T on April 17th through April 19th will benefit the Japanese sake industry devastated by March's earthquake and tsunami -- usually likes to tell a story when he does a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    Last Night: Second Glass Wine Riot at Santa Monica Place

    ​ They came with their propaganda and their party fever. They welcomed everyone, invited the masses into the cavernous space where they assembled at Santa Monica Place mall, jamming to the driving beats of DJ Andie Cassette. And they poured wine. Lots of wine. Wine from all over the world. Sec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    Fig & Garcia Farms Teach At-Risk Teens About Nutrition & Local Produce

    C. BishopBraised Oxtail with oranges and prunes from FIG & Garcia Farms' dinner​ Last night, Fig's executive chef Ray Garcia hosted the restaurant's first farm dinner of 2011, serving dishes filled with Fallbrook's Garcia Farm's (no relation) recent harvest of over 50 varieties of citrus. Whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    [Updated]: Ortolan Closes

    Update: We just got off the phone with Christophe Emé, who confirmed that Ortolan has indeed closed its beautiful doors. Emé said that he'd been working with a partner to retool the restaurant, but that the partnership had fallen through. He's currently trying to find a new partner, and has closed ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 19, 2010

    LudoWines

    What to drink on the fly with the Lefebvres

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2009

    A Recipe From The Chef: Patina Chef Tony Esnault's Recipe For Butternut Squash Soup

    Patina chef Tony Esnault likes soup. It's one of his favorite dishes to cook at home for his two young sons, William and Charles, and it was one of the dishes most emblematic of his childhood growing up in the Loire valley in France. Esnault serves a small bowlful of this butternut squash soup as an ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 8, 2007

    Transcendent, Transitory Tapas

    Ludovic Lefebvre’s temporary contemporary

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2005

    Marineland: Michael Cimarusti's Providence

    Ludovic Lefebvre’s temporary contemporary

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