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March 29, 2013
Weird World of Wine: A News Round-Up
Slate: The William Koch lawsuit over counterfeit wine sparks a look at how a $10,000 bottle of wine is a show of "prestige, rarity and age" and not necessarily of quality. NPR: New Jersey winemakers are seeking to formalize a geographical label of sorts -- Outer Coastal Plain -- to circumvent stere ... More >>
Eat+Drink
March 28, 2013
L.A.'s Wine Bars Are Better Than Ever. Here Are Our Seven Favorites
Slate: The William Koch lawsuit over counterfeit wine sparks a look at how a $10,000 bottle of wine is a show of "prestige, rarity and age" and not necessarily of quality. NPR: New Jersey winemakers are seeking to formalize a geographical label of sorts -- Outer Coastal Plain -- to circumvent stere ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2013
Q & A With Lou Amdur: Glazed Hams, Slutty Chardonnays What to Drink at Easter
See also: L.A.'s Wine Bars Are Better Than Ever. Here Are Our Seven Favorites Lou Amdur, may have sold his cozy, Laundromat-and-Thai massage parlor adjacent Hollywood strip mall wine bar, LOU, last March. But he still has that gift for being able to effortlessly hold forth on all things wine and fo ... More >>
Blogs
March 15, 2013
Wally's Wine & Spirits Has Been Sold: And The Wine Shop Goes To?
A moment of silence for another local wine retailer. Steve Wallace has sold Wally's Wine and Spirits. Once a small outpost in West L.A., since it opened nearly forty five years ago the Wally's name has become synonymous for quality, be it the wine and spirits collection or its fundraisers. Plenty o ... More >>
Blogs
January 22, 2013
Night Market's "Lost" Wine Dinner with Lou Amdur
On Sunday night, Kris Yenbamroong held a wine dinner with Lou Amdur (of the much-missed LOU wine bar) at Night Market, and it was at a level of food and wine geekdom that is both rare and thrilling to those of us who like a little cerebral stimulation while we stuff ourselves and drink too much. ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2012
10 Best L.A. Restaurants That Closed in 2012: An Elegy in 10 Parts
The conclusion of every year is a time to catalog both beginnings and endings, to look back over what exactly happened in the twelve months now drawing to a close. Which means that we're getting a lot of lists -- thank you, David Letterman -- as we calibrate and recalibrate, and remember, or try to, ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market
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. 88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market. Kris Yenbamroong's Night Market, a next-door offshoot of West Hollywood's Talesai, has quietly taken on the mantle of ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2012
Lou Amdur and Sotto Celebrate Sicily This Thursday
What has wine guru Lou Amdur been up to since selling his wine bar earlier this year? Quite a bit, apparently. Fresh off a recent trip to Sicily (Vittoria and Etna, for those keeping score), Amdur will be hosting a one-night Sicilian wine dinner at Sotto on June 21, at 7 p.m., focusing on natural It ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2012
A Recipe From the (Now Itinerant) Wine Guy: Lou's Pig Candy
Several weeks ago, when it was announced that Lou Amdur was selling his wine bar, LOU, we offered a parting culinary keepsake for Squid Ink readers -- the recipe for LOU's famous pig candy. Want to know the origin story of this sweet, bacon-y side dish? If so, forget about the chocolate-dipped pork ... More >>
Blogs
March 23, 2012
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Twitter: 10 of Our Favorite Food-Related Tweets
Twitter turned six years old this past Wednesday, which means six years of communicating via intermittent bursts of 140-character sound bytes and six years of convincing ourselves that even the most mundane of thoughts are worthy of a megaphone. According to the official Twitter blog, there are now ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2012
Q & A With Lou Amdur: On Selling His Wine Bar, Software Insomnia Drunks in the Parking Lot
When Squid Ink was born back in 2009, Lou Amdur, the owner of the wine bar, LOU was one of the first experts we turned to. No matter the question -- be it of terroir, or amphorae or why wine geeks use puzzling descriptors -- he never made us feel dumb for asking it. His answers took us near (Wine Ex ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2012
10 Best Romantic Restaurants in L.A.
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, thus it is time to book reservations at your favorite swank restaurant. Assuming you have a date for the evening. If you do not, well, check back later for our Best Dive Bars in L.A. list. Of course your significant other may not be the white tablecloth sort, s ... More >>
Eat+Drink
November 10, 2011
Lou: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011
Valentine's Day is fast approaching, thus it is time to book reservations at your favorite swank restaurant. Assuming you have a date for the evening. If you do not, well, check back later for our Best Dive Bars in L.A. list. Of course your significant other may not be the white tablecloth sort, s ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2011
Building the Perfect Bloody Mary: World's Most Complicated Cocktail (Really)
The Bloody Mary, that proud mix of tomato juice, vodka and a potential spice drawer's worth of ingredients, may be the most complex cocktail in the world -- at least from a chemical standpoint. That's why, after tackling the chemistry of coffee, tea, fruit juices, soda pop, beer, wine and other al ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Wine Shop Report: Has Trader Joe's Grown Up Since Two Buck Chuck?
J. GarbeeThe Partial Trader Joe's Tasting, Including That Il Valore Sangiovese Welcome to the wine shop tasting edition of Squid Ink, an occasional roundup of current offerings at select local wine shops. Take note of the word "select," as it basically means those we can afford. As in, this w ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
A Recipe From The Chef: Patricia Tsai's Chocovivo Snack
Patricia TsaiChocovivo's chocolate and cheese on breadPatricia Tsai is a bit of a role model. As we discovered in part 1 and part 2 of our interview with the chocolatier and owner of Chocovivo, Tsai persevered through extraordinary events in order to do what drives her -- make bean-to-bar ch ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/27-12/30
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When Donna Simpson dreams, she dreams big. The 650-pound New Jersey mom aims to be the fattest woman in the world. And to be the best, you have to make sacrifices." New Jersey Woman Eats 30,000-Calorie Christmas Meal. "Mu ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Q & A With Lou Amdur (Part 2): Lambruscos, Blanc de Blanc Champagne and The Effervescent Cure-All Known As Alka-Seltzer
Anne FishbeinLou Amdur, of LOU: A Wine BarIn part one of our conversation with Lou Amdur, owner of Lou: A Wine Bar, we asked him for suggestions about what to drink on New Year's Eve, and he sang the praises of yeasty proseccos and fizzy red lambruscos (especially the ones made by third gener ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
There's Got To Be A Morning After: Lou Amdur's Bloody Mary Recipe
Flickr user kthreadA Bloody MaryIf you read our interview with Lou Amdur (Part 1, Part 2), owner of the wine bar, LOU, you know that if you present him with a simple question, like, "What should we drink on New Year's Eve?" he will give you an answer that is equal parts invention and knowledg ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
Q & A With Lou Amdur: What To Drink On New Year's Eve (Part 1)
Our colleague Jonathan Gold once pointed out that Lou Amdur, owner of LOU: A Wine Bar, "can probably talk more profoundly about biodynamic wines than anyone who hasn't actually buried a dung-filled animal horn at midnight during a full moon." So it only makes sense that with a tiny handful of 2010 l ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2010
Your Busy Outdoor Food Fundraiser Weekend Agenda: Cube's Rooftop BBQ, Garden School Foundation Savor the Season
Photo: Amy Sheridan It's in the hands of the capricious climate gods whether Cube Café and Marketplace's Pork 'n' Beans Rooftop Afternoon BBQ will be a hot-weather cookout or a crisp fall affair. On Saturday, October 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Cube Foundation Garden, Cube welcomes featured g ... More >>
Blogs
June 28, 2010
Use Your Noodle: Chinese Director Zhang Yimou's Remake Of The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple
Sony Pictures Classics For all the marquee prominence in the title of Chinese director Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop, (slated for release on Sept. 3rd) we only see a kitchen staff shift into high gear once. In the scene, Wang -- the villainous owner of a restaurant located in ... More >>
Blogs
June 11, 2010
Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/7-6/11
In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "She gets her cow, you can eat as low on the food chain as you'd like, and you all drink hoppy oceans of microbrew - everybody wins!"
Blogs
June 8, 2010
Q & A With Lou Amdur: Jean-Paul Brun's Basic Beaujolais What To Drink With A Grilled Nathan's Hot Dog
In anticipation of the summer equinox -- June 21st -- Lou Amdur, owner of LOU: A Wine Bar, returns to Squid Ink with some thoughts on rosés, why a dialed-down acidity profile is good and a few do's and don'ts for backyard grilling season. Squid Ink: Summer is almost officially upon us. That means ... More >>
Eat+Drink
February 26, 2010
99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die
Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos
Blogs
January 27, 2010
A Q & A With LOU Chef D.J. Olsen: Cooking For Wine People, Trading Music For Food & The Secret Cult of the Midwest
To get to LOU wine bar, you must drive slightly further east on Melrose than you might expect, past the food corridor of the as-yet-reopened Hatfield's and the happy complex that is Mozza and the technically masterful food of Providence, to a nondescript strip mall off of Vine. You must spot the mal ... More >>
Blogs
August 17, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Tasting Tuesdays, the Concept of Terroir and Benedictine Monks Who Say, "Eat My Dirt"
Anne FishbeinWine Guy Lou Amdur Takes The Terror Out Of TerroirRecently, at LOU: A Wine Bar, owner Lou Amdur instituted "Tasting Tuesdays," a weekly celebration of the concept of "terroir" that offers a flight of wine paired with a flight of genuine US farmstead and artisanal cheeses at $14. ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2009
But How's the Food? Barbara Bestor on Restaurant and Bar Design
Photo credit: Alison DyerSpend some time around Silver Lake and chances are you recognize Barbara Bestor's office, even if her name is unfamiliar. The SCI-Arc trained architect's practice is based out of a former hair salon on Fountain Avenue, the exterior of which serves as an ongoing changi ... More >>
Blogs
July 13, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Good Cab, Bad Cab
Wine Guy Lou Amdur of "Lou: A Wine Bar" returns this week with some thoughts about West Coast Cabernet Sauvignons, several tips on What Not To Buy and the answer to the question "Why do I always feel so gross after dr ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Love for the Grotesquely Beautiful, aka the Willem Dafoe Wines
Anne FishbeinHmm, is this wine grotesquely beautiful or just beautiful? Lou Amdur returns to the Squid Ink lineup this week with some grotesquely beautiful thoughts. SQUID INK: Recently, you described a wine on your list at Lou: A Wine Bar as "grotesquely beautiful." What does that even mean? LO ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2009
Dry, There's the Rub: Two Simple Recipes to Prepare for BBQ Season
Courtesy of the chefThe young man and the sea creature: Courtland and pulpo. Where's the rub? After we posted this week's Wine Guy Explains Wine Things, in which Lou Amdur suggested several terrific wines for barbecue season, we couldn't get barbecue off our mind. Lou mentioned his love of using a d ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: BBQ and the Search for Smoky Animality ... Plus, How to Avoid Drunken Magnanimity
It's time to fire up the Weber and make some hamburgers. What kind of wine should I have on hand?
Blogs
May 8, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Grüner Veltliner, the White Wine that Acts Like a Martini, Plus Party Reds and When Gnarly Is Good
It's time to fire up the Weber and make some hamburgers. What kind of wine should I have on hand?
Eat+Drink
April 30, 2009
Slurpees: Seeking the Bliss Factor at the Pacific Oyster Wine Competition
The one day of the year when no matter how many oysters one consumes, it is not nearly enough
Blogs
April 28, 2009
Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Lou Says, "Asti La Vista, Baby"
Anne FishbeinWine Guy in his natural habitat This week, we approached our favorite wine guy, Lou Amdur of Lou, with a fizzy question: What's the difference between Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti? ... And was that a groan I heard, Lou, when I mentioned Asti Spumante? But first: Apropos of nothi ... More >>
News
November 20, 2003
Letters
Anne FishbeinWine Guy in his natural habitat This week, we approached our favorite wine guy, Lou Amdur of Lou, with a fizzy question: What's the difference between Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti? ... And was that a groan I heard, Lou, when I mentioned Asti Spumante? But first: Apropos of nothi ... More >>
News
June 28, 2001
Letters
Anne FishbeinWine Guy in his natural habitat This week, we approached our favorite wine guy, Lou Amdur of Lou, with a fizzy question: What's the difference between Asti Spumante and Moscato d'Asti? ... And was that a groan I heard, Lou, when I mentioned Asti Spumante? But first: Apropos of nothi ... More >>

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