Mendocino

Now Open: Mendocino Farms Downtown in FIGat7th

Mendocino Farms opened its 6th location and 3rd downtown outpost yesterday with a new sandwich operation at Taste, the food court in FIGat7th that already houses Juicy Lucy and Oleego.

More Events: A Beer Pairing Dinner, Family Fun Day Spring Cocktail Launch

5-Course Beer Pairing Dinner at Mohawk Bend Chef Erick Simmons and brewmaster Jesse Houck have put together a five-course dinner menu complete with beer pairings. The meal begins with mini pizzas matched with Carillo Kolsch. The first course of potato gnocchi is served with Emil's Special Beer. The ... More >>

March Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

Something about springtime makes Angelenos long for a healthier lifestyle. Perhaps the constant Victoria's Secret commercial ads or research claiming junk food will kill a man's sperm. Whatever it is, more juice bars and macrobiotic foods have arrived, namely at new restaurants including Shojin, M.A ... More >>

Go Pork Yourself

Paiche Preview: Ricardo Zarate's New Restaurant Coming to Marina Del Rey

It looks like the MDR dining scene is getting a much needed shot in the arm in early 2013, thanks to chef Ricardo Zarate and business partner Stefan Bombet. The duo behind Picca and Mo-Chica are planning a new concept called Paiché [pronounced pie-chay ] set to open in the Waterside complex on Linc ... More >>

Los Angeles Chefs Discuss Downtown L.A. at ALOUD

"We can forget all our troubles, forget all our cares and go downtown ... everything's waiting for you!" When Petula Clark sang this line in 1964 -- albeit about New York -- who could have known she was she forecasting the future of downtown Los Angeles as a culinary destination? Numerous chefs have ... More >>

Caju Naneng Myon: Stop-n-Shop Kimbap

Forget Lunchables, the real cool kids in grade school were the ones had kimbap in their brown bags. Those loosely wrapped rice and seaweed rolls stuffed with this and that, a close cousin of Japanese futomaki, are one of the favorite mobile lunches in Korea. You can find packages of kimbap in the de ... More >>

Gorday Ramsay to Open The Fat Cow This Summer

We know this is a prime moment for carnivores, what with the nose-to-tail movement in full swing. But Gordan Ramsay's new restaurant, slated to open at The Grove this summer, may be taking our meat-obsession a little too far. It's called, drumroll please, The Fat Cow. This comes just as Mendocino F ... More >>

Now Open: Blue Cow Kitchen & Bar

Blue Cow, the latest project from an expanded team behind the string of Mendocino Farms sandwich shops, opened Feb. 13, bringing a brimming kitchen agenda to California Plaza. Leave it to a restaurant that comes bundled with a suite of sustainable/locavore/farm-to-table values, and an interior full ... More >>

Mendocino Farms Banh Mi: Sandwich of the Week

When is a banh mi not a banh mi? That is not a trick question, by the way. When it has no charcuterie? When it lacks pickled vegetables? Must it be served on a baguette? The ever-blurring boundary between all other sandwiches and the banh mi -- or what's passing for one these days -- undoubtedly wi ... More >>

What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Sexy Cabbage (No, Really) A Sauerkraut Recipe

Cabbage is fucking sexy. So says Facebook. The Amateur Gourmet and the Rosati Family Winery in Mendocino concur. It's easy to agree, thus elevating this once lowly, leafy brassica from a dense vegetal bowling ball to a wintertime celebration. Cabbage doesn't unseat the fig from the top of the sex ... More >>

Not Your Standard Thanksgiving Wine Pairings: Top Winemakers On The Tofurky Challenge

www.yrousseauwines.comTofurky! Let's Toast! (Center: Yannick Rousseau, Y Rousseau Winemaker)​The problem with those incessant Thanksgiving food and wine pairing write-ups in every food publication this time of year? They all presume the food on your table will most certainly be Saveur magazine ... More >>

Opening and Closing in Your 'Hood: An October Restaurant Roundup

Guzzle & NoshR.I.P Gastrobus, Welcome Gastronomico​Attaining overnight success in the restaurant business is largely an urban myth (unless you're backed by a corporate restaurant group with tons of money to spend on marketing). Even a few empty seats in your new eatery can make you sweat. Whil ... More >>

Mendocino Farms Opens Blue Cow "Sandwich Atelier"; Closes Casa

LA Wad/FlickrMendocino Farms Mascot inspired the new concept​ Mendocino Farms is known for its quirky sandwiches -- the one that first got us was an addictive combo of duck confit with duck-skin cracklins -- and its approachable farm-to-table lunch fare at its three locations (two downtown and ... More >>

Marijuana Growers Find a Home on California Farmland?

realcaliforniamilk.comWhat are those cows munching on?​Since California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, growers of pot have, well, grown wise, evolving from a campaign that emphasized the cancer-afflicted grandma growing pot on her windowsill (way to legalize it) to the reality of large-s ... More >>

Census Data: Lesbians More Likely to Live in Norcal, Gay Men in SoCal

Patrick Range McDonaldDo WeHo gays scare the lesbians away?​Last week, NYC beat California to marriage equality. (Well, unless you count our fleeting sliver of justice in 2008.) So, for one honorary week, we'll refrain from calling it New York Shitty. Though that won't stop the Onion from pick ... More >>

L.A.'s Underground Mushroom Network, Or How To Feed Your Urban Fungi Habitat

JGarbeeThe Mushroom Grower Tip-Off​Morels aren't exactly what come to mind when someone mentions under their breath that they grow mushrooms, particularly when that conversation takes place over homebrews in a grungy warehouse space somewhere in that nondescript area of L.A. just east of downt ... More >>

Mendocino Farms to Sell Winning Grilled Cheese Invitational Sandwich

Mendocino Farms​ In addition to the new four-category format at the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational, this year's event will feature a bonus for one lucky winner: Their sandwich will be sold at Mendocino Farms and the money will go to charity. Company founder Mario Del Pero will serve as an e ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Markets: Wild Mushrooms

Felicia Friesema Giant Live Oak Chantarelles at Tutti Frutti's farm stand at the Hollywood market.​ During the summer, our local scrubby oak groves are covered with water-starved, crispy yellow field grasses. But thanks to the recent deluge we're now seeing Live Oak Chanterelles at several fa ... More >>

Meet Your Grape Grower: Charlie Barra, The 84-Year-Old Owner of Barra and Girasole

Evan JohnsonCharlie Barra​Should you be fortunate enough to reach your 65th grape harvest -- as a grower, not simply an imbiber -- you know when it's time to put those Sangiovese and Pinot Grigio grapes to work. And when to step back and let them enjoy a few more weeks on the vine. Squid Ink w ... More >>

Cobb Salad Fight: Clementine vs. Mendocino Farms

The Cobb salad, as the story goes, is an original L.A. dish, invented in the 30s by Bob Cobb at the Brown Derby. Most restaurants of a certain ilk seem to have it on their lunch menus, and patrons love to add their personal modifications (that's an old Los Angeles custom too). It is also one of the ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/23-8/27

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "All I can say is that it would be a shame to endure even a single extra day without having experienced the Salt's Cure BLT -- super-ripe heirloom tomatoes, chunky toast and a pig's worth of the restaurant's sweetly smoky bac ... More >>

Meth-Face Imaging Software Puts Scare Into Kids

Face2Face​A California sheriff has helped a tech company develop 3D imaging software that can show people what their face would look like if they start and continue abusing methamphetamine for months and years. The results are shocking and compelling enough that law-enforcement agencies from L ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

Intelligentsia Brings Home the Gold: Free Hacienda La Esmeralda Tasting Today

tonx via Flickr​In Mendocino, outdoor farmers are busy harvesting the last marijuana crop of the season, and in Los Angeles, the folks at Intelligentsia Venice are relishing in their portion of the Geisha varietal coffee crop from Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama, where a very limited amount is ... More >>

Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

The Theory of Relativity as it Relates to California Pinot Noir: How Much is 'Best Ever' Worth to You?

Blame it on the Rain. The current issue of Wine Spectator has the phrase "BEST EVER California Pinot Noir" splashed across the front page. The editors are referring not only to Sonoma, but as far north as Anderson Valley in Mendocino County and as close to home as Santa Barbara. The reason? Near per ... More >>

Plan C

To Succeed, Must We Secede?

Ready To Rumble

The Northern California seismic threat to the Southland

The Record of Gray Davis

The Griles Files

Inside Bush’s plan for California coast

Letters

Why I Drive a Hate Crime

Going down the road feeling bad . . .

The Grapes of L.A.

Winemaking can once again be local

Them

California takes on the Fire Ant

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

E-lationships

Sylvia Brownrigg's Metaphysical Touch