Mark Peel

Bludso's Review: A Compton Classic Comes to Hollywood

Kevin Bludso's barbecue works even in translation, our critic finds

10 Great Cookbooks for Summer

Sure, you may have a dozen newly opened gastropubs within Yelp distance from where you live. Or food trucks. Or, arguably best of all, neighborhood taquerias. But in summer, when L.A. farmers markets are loaded with gorgeous produce, sometimes it's more fun to cook your own dinner. Just to prove you ... More >>

Life of Pie: L.A. Celebrates Its Pizza Moment

From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. On a Wednesday evening, 10 students sit along the counter at the Scuola di Pizza, the, yes, "School of Pizza" at L.A.'s premier pizza joint, Mozza. I'd like to say we're a varied lot, but that wouldn't be true -- we're uniformly w ... More >>

Post & Beam, Govind Armstrong's New Baldwin Hills Restaurant, Is Good -- But It Could Be Even Better

Watch This Now: The Tasting Kitchen's Casey Lane Discusses 'Working Ripe'

When we here at Squid Ink use the term "working ripe" it usually refers to those times when we head into the office after a particularly moist gym workout, but for Casey Lane, head chef at Venice's Tasting Kitchen (as well as the upcoming Parish and Itri), the term has another meaning altogether. I ... More >>

Battle Sangria: Rick Bayless vs. Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken a Recipe from the Winner

C. LeVasserJamaica sangria by Rick Bayless​Some of us have been going out a lot less these days. But rather than unnecessarily spending twenty dollars on a rare gueuze at Father's Office, we've been throwing our money at things like Scharffen Berger chocolate, or imported speck from Alto-Adige ... More >>

Classic, With A Twist: Michael's Debuts Guest Bartender Series

Bar Toscana​ Like a six deuce Impala with an electric engine, the 30 year-old Santa Monica restaurant Michael's is getting a serious infusion of the hot new thing. This Thursday, January 20th, Michael's will kick off a series of monthly guest bartender events featuring some of L.A.'s most tal ... More >>

Beacon in Culver City to Close This Sunday

Photo: Anne FishbeinThis Beacon to go dark on Sunday.​ The place that ushered in the new generation of Culver City restaurant culture is closing. This coming Sunday, January 16th will be the last day of business at Beacon. Executive chef and Chinois on Main alum Kazuto Matsusaka along with hi ... More >>

Drink This Now: Earl Grey Martinez at 320 Main in Seal Beach A Cocktail Recipe

Caroline on Crack320 Main's Earl Grey Martinez.​ Back in 2009, bartender Audrey Saunders introduced tea-infused cocktails to Los Angeles at Tar Pit on La Brea Avenue, where she partnered with Mark Peel (Campanile) on an extensive drinks menu. Saunders is long gone from Tar Pit, but tea-infused ... More >>

Los Angeles Magazine Hosts The Food Event 2010: From The Vine

Los Angeles MagazineThe Food Event 2010: From the Vine​​If you missed last month's Taste of Beverly Hills or Wolfgang Puck's American Wine & Food Festival, mark your calendar for October 24, when Los Angeles Magazine hosts The Food Event 2010: From the Vine at Malibu's Saddlerock Ranch. ... More >>

Q & A With Martha Rose Shulman: The New Book, Letters to Julia Faux Meat

Michele van VlietMartha Rose Shulman​Martha Rose Shulman has been a food fixture in this town and beyond for many years, teaching cooking classes at Venice Cooking School, working on the cookbooks of some of L.A.'s favorite chefs -- she co-authored Mark Peel's recent New Classic Family Dinners ... More >>

New Top Chef Cookbook: Why To Think Twice Before Signing Up For That Reality TV Show

​The reality of reality television shows like Bravo's Top Chef is that if you're chosen as a contestant, you get to sign a big fat contract. You know, the kind of legalese that says something along the lines of the network gets to do pretty much anything it pleases. Including using you to prom ... More >>

Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen The Joys of HSN

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>

L.A. Bloggers Judge Top Chef Masters A Viewing Party at The Edison

Top Chef MastersMake room for some food bloggers at Judges' Table​ L.A. chefs like Mark Peel, Susan Feniger and Ludovic Lefebvre aren't the only locals showing up on Top Chef Masters this season. Wednesday night, the judges' table will get a little bit bigger with L.A. food bloggers Bill Espa ... More >>

Treat Her Right: Mother's Day Dining Options

Flickr user Bakerella​ Mother's Day in Los Angeles always brings the gift of good May weather, and the perennial foolproof option of a Sunday farmers' market visit followed by a home cooked meal. But here are a few other suggestions on how to treat a deserving lady right, since chances are th ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Cheese, Crying and Marcus Samuelsson

Bravo TVEpisode 2 of Top Chef Masters​ Episode 2 of Top Chef Masters kicked off last night, and while there were no L.A. chefs represented in this episode, the show does take place in L.A., so we got to enjoy a lot of B-roll shots of Union Station. This week's chefs were Marcus Samuelsson (R ... More >>

WeHo Where To: Small, Cozy, Italian, French ...

James Beard Semifinalists Announced: The L.A. Edition

James Beard​This morning the James Beard Foundation announced the semifinalists for its 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards. Judges will vote to determine the final 5 nominees in each category, which will be announced on March 22nd. The winners will be announced at the Foundation's award party, ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Cocktail Art

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer djjewelz, who took the gorgeous shot with a Canon PowerShot S90. The cocktail pictured is an Old Cuban at the Tar Pit, the newish bar on La Brea from Audrey Saunders and Mark Peel. LA Weekly Flickr pool/djjewelzOId Cuban at the ... More >>

A Q & A With LOU Chef D.J. Olsen, Part 2: Life in Strip Malls & Why He's Not a Fan of Spittle on a Plate

In the first part of our interview with LOU chef D.J. Olsen yesterday, Olsen talked about life in the small kitchen of the Hollywood wine bar. Today, he discusses the relative happiness of strip mall food, the problem of culinary foams and the occasional hazards of eating in Taipei. And check back l ... More >>

Oscar, Mr. Gold

Where to go after the Academy Awards

The Giving Tree: dineLA Restaurant Week 2010 and L.A. Chef "Family Tree"

Start putting your restaurant wish list together and get ready to dial reservation lines. The restaurants participating in the winter '10 round of dineLA have been announced and getting all your ducks (hopefully confit) in a row to take advantage of the semi-annual deal can be a frenzied process. Re ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Where to Go After the Academy Awards

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I'm going to the Oscars in March but not to the ball afterward. It's been difficult finding a nice restaurant that's open past 10pm on Sunday night. Where can a group of tuxedos and gowns make reservations for dinner not kno ... More >>

LA Chefs' New Year's Resolutions

As the final hours of 2009 tick away, Angelenos dash off their New Year's resolutions like grocery lists. Food lovers are known to promise eating better and exercising more, but what to do the food makers of our city decree on New Years? We checked in with some of our city's top chefs to find out ... More >>

Evan Kleiman's Pie-a-Day Contest: The End of Pies In Sight

For some months now, Evan Kleiman has been baking pies--and baking pies and baking pies--as part of her Pie-A-Day project for KCRW. Now that it's November, Kleiman is nearing the end of her pastry marathon. As the culminating event, KCRW will host a Good Food Pie Contest on Saturday, November 14th, ... More >>

Top 10 Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: A Loaf of Bread, A Pound of Cheese...

Not just your plain-Jane American cheese on toast anymore, the grilled cheese sandwich is both comfort food and cultural icon. Proving that you can do an awful lot with a few slices of bread and a hunk of cheese. From a lavish raisin bread with shortribs and tallegio to a simple aged Cheddar and tom ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Kitchen Toys: The Anti-Griddle

eBayThe Anti-Griddle: better than plastic​You know the Top Chef sets were seriously outfitted for the Top Chef Masters shows. You don't turn that crowd loose in a kitchen and not give them the good stuff. Mark Peel, Campanile chef-owner and recent Top Chef Masters alum, says that in addition t ... More >>

Nicole's Gourmet Opens Their Warehouse for 1-Day Sale: Bring a Truck for Those Parmesan Wheels

Damien Newton - LA StreetsblogNicole's Cafe and Market in South Pasadena​So if you're Michael Cimarusti (Providence), Josiah Citrin (Melisse), or Mark Peel (Campanile), where do you pick up that giant wheel of 24-month Parmigiano Reggiano, that mess of dried morels, or those imported specialit ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Perry Farrell and Macy Gray Surprise at L.A. Weekly's L.A. Weekend, Plus We Get Krafty at the Grilled Cheese Invitational

Other than the term "swine flu," we learned several very important things over the weekend: Bea Arthur (RIP) made a damn good leg of roast lamb, there is definitely a limit to how much grilled cheese one can consume, and that the Belvedere vodka served at our L.A. Weekend festival -- yeah, that stuf ... More >>

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

Eat, Like, a Pig

Where to go for the whole hog

Where to Eat Now

Restaurants for Wine Lovers

Counter Intelligence

Don't Swerve and Drive

What to do in Los Angeles this week

99 Essential - List Only

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Ask Mr. Gold

Private Parties

Killer Wine Lists

Dinner At Eight

Night Fishing

From Planting to Plating

How the Santa Monica Farmers Market transformed the restaurant landscape

Ask Mr. Gold

Where to Eat Now

Braise Be: Jar

The Farmers Market School

Smart Food

Puck’s Lament

When Spago’s celebrity chef chastised the media for ignoring the state of fine dining, he struck a chord with this critic

Sheltering Sky