Mary Sue Milliken

Dinner and a Movie: L.A. Film Fest Food and Drink Deals

The 19th Annual L.A. Film Fest is launching this Thursday, June 13, and running until Sunday, June 23, at L.A. Live. For attendees, there are discounts for meals more substantial than a bag of popcorn and drinks stronger than theatre soda. And nearly all are within close walking distance, particular ... More >>

Seoul Food

Meatless Mondays: Susan Feniger A Burmese Gin Thoke Melon Salad Recipe

A three-week trip to an ashram in the Indian town of Ahmednagar in 1981 shifted Susan Feniger's (Street, Top Chef Masters, etc.) aesthetic and approach as a chef. Before then, her professional purview was almost exclusively located within traditional French restaurants on the East coast to the West, ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Brunch Class, Bar Crawl, Coffee Talk Wine Tour

Brunch Cooking Class Learn to cook a Mexican-inspired brunch from Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger. The chefs will demonstrate how to make Border Bloody Maria; guava empanada; heirloom bean and bacon tostada; Peruvian shrimp and grits; and La Bomba rice pudding. WHAT: Brunch Cooking Class WHEN: ... More >>

The State Department Unveils the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership

We thought we were going to a small reception at the State Department. It was day 3 of the Association of Food Journalists annual conference, this year held in Washington D.C. As we stood in line to undergo the rigorous security clearances needed to enter the building (we had been asked to provide d ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Art Smith Teppanyak-ity-yaks

Who says a Quickfire has to involve fire at all? On last night's episode of Top Chef Masters, raw was the name of the game for the chefs, who found themselves surrounding a massive ice sculpture adorned with seafood they had to serve up sans heat for a chance at immunity. And as is appropriate for ... More >>

Diana Kennedy Holds Book Signing at LACMA

Have you checked out Diana Kennedy's 2010 cookbook Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy? Because if you have, and you really should, you'll notice it feels a little more academic than most cookbooks: It was commissioned by a governor of Oaxaca in order to catalog the state's regional cuisine. Oax ... More >>

Q & A with Gustavo Arellano: Taco USA, Mexican Authenticity Food Writing

You might suspect Gustavo Arellano, the brain and wit behind the popular syndicated and OC Weekly column ¡Ask a Mexican!, as one of those Mexican food sticklers who bristles at ideas of yellow nacho cheese, the chimichonga, the chicken fajita pita, enchilada combination plates and Taco Bell's 50th ... More >>

4 Leap Year Dining Events for Feb. 29: The Edison, 29-Cent Wine, CITY Night, Roy Choi/Mark Peel Mashup

[Update: Just added the event at The Edison.] Make Leap Day William happy: Buy a Leap Day cocktail and receive a free sidecar created by The Edison's bartenders. Also, 40% discount on cocktails, beer, wine and selected food items. (As with every Wednesday, all wine by the bottle is half-off.) WHEN: ... More >>

Q & A With Suzanne Goin: Chefs Move to Schools Fundraiser, Knocking on Ma Maison's Door Obama's Secret Service Detail

When you cross the beautiful threshold of Lucques, Suzanne Goin's Melrose Avenue restaurant, her first -- of now many, including A.O.C., Tavern and the recently opened The Larder at Maple Drive -- you are at once reminded of how profoundly relevant both that restaurant and, more importantly, the che ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Night at the Mausoleum, HallowedVine, A Dark Carnival II, Long Beach Farm Dinner, Day of the Dead Cooking Class, Bitter In The Mouth

Guzzle & NoshThe crowd at Villains Tavern, which will host Dark Carnival II this weekend.​Night at the Mausoleum Meet some of the Los Angeles celebrities who are now in permanent residence at the mausoleum beneath the cathedral. The guided tour of these hallowed halls is preceeded by an option ... More >>

Battle Pot de Crème: Mark Peel vs. Suzanne Goin a Recipe from the Winner

C. LeVasserThe duo of pots de créme.​We, and maybe you, continue to spend the majority of our time cooking at home, rather than eating out. Learning how to make things like New Orleans-style boudin blanc, and Sardinian malloreddus, seems to bring us a good bit more joy these days. So today, w ... More >>

Last Night: The 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards The Winners

J. RitzOutstanding Chef nom Suzanne Goin and Best NYC Chef winner Gabrielle Hamilton on the green carpet outside the JBFAs. ​ We Californians have a reputation, however fictional or exaggerated, for looking on the bright side of things. So when it comes to reporting on the 2011 James Beard Fou ... More >>

The Cocktail Issue: Border Grill's Sangrita A Recipe

Anne FishbeinBorder Grill's sangrita​ This week's cover story is the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day here on ... More >>

Staff Meals: 10 L.A. Chefs/Restaurateurs Recall the Best and Worst

Picasa user KeithChefs eating​"I never had a bad staff meal," said former Palihouse chef Gary Menes. "I'm very grateful for all the chefs I've worked for. They don't have to do it. It's not mandated by law that they have to feed us, or the waiters. That's their generosity, and I humbly accept ... More >>

LAX Concession Aftermath: Alan Rothenberg Resigns From L.A. Airport Commission

Alan Rothenberg​Alan Rothenberg resigned today from the Los Angeles Airport Commission, in a move that should make it easier for the commission to award airport concession contracts.Rothenberg was the source of a conflict of interest that forced the commission to recuse itself on the first round o ... More >>

Food Fight at LAX

Purveyor of bland challenges plans to upgrade cuisine

Yesterday At Taste of the Nation: Photos Of Hunger-Fighting Food

Taste of the Nation Los Angeles had its annual event yesterday at the Culver City Media Park, and as usual, there was a lot of good food and drink. All ticket sales, as well as money received from charitable donations and the silent auction, went directly toward fighting childhood hunger. There wer ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Cooking Class at Ciudad

This past Saturday, celebrated English chef Fergus Henderson (St. John Restaurant, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating) gave a cooking class with Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken at their restaurant Ciudad. Since most of us are not, as Milliken is, old friends of Henderson's, or local celebrated ... More >>

Teach A Man to MAKE A Mojito, He'll Drink For A Lifetime: Caribbean Cooking Class at Ciudad

CiudadMojitos​Perhaps due to restaurant week, which runs until Friday, October 16, the benefit blitz has slowed, leaving you wondering how best to spend your money this weekend. That is what you're wondering, right? Of course, you could extend your dollars by taking advantage of the bargain ea ... More >>

A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger

Scan courtesy Susan FenigerEveryone's in the kitchen with Julia​A Chef's Take on Julie & Julia, by Susan Feniger, chef-co-owner of Ciudad, Border Grill and Street: I'd like to say something right up front: I'm not a film critic, I'm not a writer, and I generally don't like movies about cooki ... More >>

Mastering The Art Of Julia: Drinking STREET's Susan Feniger Under The Table

Sony PicturesMeryl Streep as Julia Child in "Julie and Julia" In this week's ongoing Mastering The Art of Julia series - partly started in anticipation of this summer's Nora Ephron-directed Julie & Julia, starring Meryl Streep as the food world's warbly-voiced Julia Child - we talk to STREET's Susan ... More >>

The Raw, the Cooked and Everything in Between: Taste of the Nation

The raw and the cooked--and everything in between--were showcased at Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation fundraiser event in Culver City on Sunday. Many of the participating local chefs were big on crudo, while others preferred carbonizing their protein. The sheer number of chefs and food busin ... More >>

Sex, Lies and Videotape

All at once, if that’s how you like it: What to do June 12-18

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

Mastering the Art of Julia: Mary Sue Milliken Hears a Thump

Sony PicturesChild in time: Streep as Julia This summer, Meryl Streep will appear as the food world's warbly-voiced icon Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. The movie is based on Child's autobiography and Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, in which ... More >>

Newest Episode of Susan Feniger's Street Noise Released -- Web Videos Show Making of an LA Restaurant

There are many ways to publicize a new restaurant, but in this age of Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen, Susan Feniger has come up with a cool new way to let potential customers get a glimpse of her cooking style -- and the many headaches of opening a place from the ground up -- by starring her own we ... More >>

Back on the Street: Susan Feniger's World Cuisine

A virtual museum of street food, snacks and savories from every part of Asia

First Bite: Susan Feniger's Street

When it opened in the 1980s, City Restaurant felt a lot like the future of Los Angeles cuisine: a restaurant that absorbed the influences of both the local Asian communities and the exotic places to which a reasonably hip Angeleno might be expected to travel, and re-envisioned the flavors through th ... More >>

Where to Drink Now: The New Cocktailian's Guide

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Bring the Funk

Izayoi moves to the rhythm of the izakaya

Cash in Your Chips

Dinner and Drinks Downtown

Ciudad, the Pan-Latin downtown outpost of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, may be all things to all people, but especially to all people whose pleasures include bending an elbow every now and then.

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Dancing Fools, Baby Jane, John Doe and a Midnight Cowboy

Barhopping the Red Line

Downtown L.A.

Women in the Kitchen

Dinner At Eight

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Pan-Latin

Live Music

Two Ways to Party

You won’t get Nancy Silverton and Mary Sue Milliken to agree on much

Fajita pitas, Octopus Tacos, and the Birth of California Cuisine

25 moments — over 25 years — in L.A. restaurants

Where to Eat Now

Winter Restaurants 2002

Part 3

Menudo Schmenudo

Tortilla Soup; plus more “troubles”

Slow Food

In search of a good stew

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