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Now Open: Twist Eatery in Hancock Park

At Twist Eatery, the new bakery café that opened on La Brea Boulevard this past Monday, the menu covers Morocco, California and the Mediterranean, in the form of sandwiches, bowls and salads. The mix of influences is a map of owner Joelle Bercovitch's upbringing. "I'm from several different places ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: sbe Chef Danny Elmaleh an Artichoke Flatbread Recipe

When creating new dishes for sbe restaurants Cleo and Mercato di Vetro, Danny Elmaleh leads a team of four in search of something that gives what he calls a pop of flavor. This can come from anywhere: an herb, a certain spice, or one in the range of vinegars they are experimenting with. It's an ingr ... More >>

Ask Squid Ink: Couples Cooking Classes, or Love Me Tandoor

Dear Squid Ink: In your experience with the wonderful restaurants and chefs of our city, have you stumbled across any unique places that offer cooking lessons? My lovely and talented wife is quite accomplished in cooking various cuisines at home and I'm looking to surprise her with some unique cook ... More >>

A September Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

Celebrating the "change" in season (it's L.A., come on), restaurants around town are revamping their menus, adding new happy hours (City Sip, The Parish, Dominick's, etc), prix fixe specials and pumpkin everywhere they can. Known for creating menus from scratch, Test Kitchen returns to Sotto with a ... More >>

The Undercover Vegetarian: Mezze

It's an slight paradox for a vegetarian, this menu at Mezze. On the one hand, it's an extremely vegetarian-friendly menu. On the other, the things vegetarians usually count as tried-and-true safe zones are, at Mezze, decidedly not. The tabouli has bacon in it. The falafel comes over a stew of braise ... More >>

Paula Wolfert Comes to L.A.'s Central Library: Moroccan Food, Favorite Kitchen Tools Issues of Sous-Vide

If you love couscous, Moroccan cuisine and the many glorious cookbooks of Paula Wolfert (not necessarily in that order), you have someplace to be this Saturday morning. Wolfert will be speaking at downtown's Central Library in an event brought to you by the Culinary Historians of Southern California ... More >>

L.A.'s Idea of Jewish Food vs. What Jews Really Eat

​Our latest attempt in Understanding Cuisine through Racial Profiling finds us examining the dietary habits of Jews. But what kind of Jews? One respondent wrote, "You meant to ask what American Jews eat, right? Otherwise you will get sucked forever into separating Moroccan Jews from Polish Jew ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Winter Cocktails, Latkes, Caviar, Tasting Menus, Recovery

Winter Cocktail Launch Bartender Jaymee Mandeville's unveils her seasonal cocktail lineup featuring warming libations like Breaking Castagne (cognac, mezcal, housemade chestnut syrup, mole bitters and nutmeg), Grimhilda (apple brandy, chipotle honey, pama and lemon) and Remedy X (rosemary-infused wh ... More >>

The Best Cookbooks of 2011 (And Sure, They Double As Great Last Minute Gifts)

jgarbeeStill Life With (Good) 2011 Cookbooks​Because if you still haven't gotten a gift for someone of genuine or obligatory importance on your list (your closest friend; your boss/mother in law), check those Amazon availability lists right now. Or better yet, stop by your local bookstore. W ... More >>

A Recipe: Joan Nathan's Moroccan Chicken with Olives and Preserved Lemons

Katie StoopsJoan Nathan's Moroccan chicken with olives​If you're planning to head to Joan Nathan's talk at the Central Library this Saturday, you could do worse than spend the days prior to the event cooking. Specifically, cooking one of the dishes from Nathan's book Quiches, Kugels, and Cousc ... More >>

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The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Paula Wolfert's The Food of Morocco, Now That's A Cookbook

There are a handful of cookbook authors -- Diana Kennedy (hyper local Mexican cuisine), Maida Heatter (home baking), Paula Wolfert (Moroccan cuisine) -- whose personal obsession not only with cooking, but truly with a culinary culture, is so focused, so resolute, that when they finally release anoth ... More >>

David LeFevre's Manhattan Beach Post: Now Open

M. B. Post​ For those of you who have been pining for chef David LeFevre's cooking since he left Water Grill last year, you can now find it on the menu again. His own menu, at his first restaurant. LeFevre's Manhattan Beach Post (abbreviated to M.B. Post) opens today. As for why Manhattan Beac ... More >>

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Mezze: Opening Next Month in the Former Sona Location

L. Balla​ There should be a show like Moving Up for restaurants, where the former tenants of a space get a peek at what the new tenants have done, and comment on it. Mezze would be at the top of our list for screen time. The new Mediterranean restaurant, slated to open next month in the form ... More >>

Best Almond Paste: Fat Uncle Farms Calls It Marzipan, We Call It Good

J. GarbeeAlmonds, Honey And Apricots (Or Oranges) = The Marzipan Of Your Dreams​ In today's world of health-touting food packaging, even hard alcohol is boastfully going organic (you would think 80 proof would make anything pesticide free). And so there is an insidious pleasure in buying farm ... More >>

Thanksgiving Dining: 6 Holiday Dishes With A Global Spin

Cham Korean Bistro​ You eat kimchi pizza, Filipino adobo burritos and Japanese rice patty burgers. So when it comes to Thanksgiving, the most traditional of American food holidays, boring old stuffing won't do. Here are six Thanksgiving options that will make your globetrotting palate sing wi ... More >>

Paula Wolfert and The Watched Pot Her New Book

A. ScattergoodPaula Wolfert considers a pot of couscous​ As you may know, if you got your fix of Merguez sausage, roasted lamb and Tuareg weaponry this past weekend in Pasadena, Paula Wolfert was in town for the Couscous Festival. The celebrated cookbook author, couscous expert and friend of ... More >>

Top 5 Just-For-Drinks Restaurants

Los Angeles may well be ground zero for the let's-meet-for-a-drink cocktail culture, what with all the aspiring Sammy Glicks running around. And the city is crammed with bars and restaurants that cater to them, most of which have the plastic, glossy newness of a TCA chemical face peel. For the rest ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: John Sedlar's Scallops Arabesque

A. ScattergoodJohn Sedlar's scallops Arabasque​ John Sedlar, chef-owner of Rivera and the subject of our most recent interview, is cooking some ambitious food at his downtown restaurant these days. Three menus, three rooms, three continents, and a lot more than three dishes. And while we coul ... More >>

Momed Explores the Eastern Mediterranean

Momed, the new Mediterranean restaurant in Beverly Hills, was lucky. It inherited a wood burning oven from the previous occupant, the Italian restaurant Rosti. And so you can have Turkish flatbreads straight from that oven with such toppings as oven-roasted wild mushrooms, akawi cheese and broccoli ... More >>

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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 >>

10 Leg of Lamb Recipes I Briefly Considered Making Yesterday

Flickr/One from RM​ 1. Julia Child's gigot a la moutarde. Bea Arthur's favorite, sure. But powdered ginger and pounded dried rosemary? Even on Easter, this one requires a leap of faith. 2. Chorizo-stuffed leg of lamb from Suzanne Goin's Sunday Suppers at Lucques. The Mexican-Moroccan-Prove ... More >>

Chameau Restaurant & Catering Reopens As Chameau Deli Bar

French-Moroccan restaurant, Chameau, located in the Fairfax district, and originally opened in Silver Lake in 2001, reopened last Saturday as Chameau Deli Bar. Prices have been slashed and the restaurant is much more casual than its previous design. Co-owners Kelly Klemovich and chef Adel Chager dec ... More >>

Passover Planner: Restaurant Seders Around Town

Photo: J. RitzEvan Kleiman's matzo ball soup at Angeli.​ The two nights of Passover seder 5770 fall on Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30. Our local, trusty, sophisticated Passover mavens honor the broad Jewish culinary diaspora while hewing to some familiar traditions as well. Bottom lin ... More >>

Today In WTF: Man Serving Time For ID Theft Does It Again From Behind Bars, Graduates To Federal Prison

​An identity thief got an extra 102 days behind bars Monday, this time in federal lockup, after he was caught taking out credit card lines in other people's names as he served time in a state prison in El Centro, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Authorities say he even obtained persona ... More >>

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