Nancy Silverton

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: PinotFest, Wine Chocolate Tasting, "Back at Café du Monde," The Strand Dinner Crawfish Boil

Pasadena PinotFest Grand Tasting Praise the pinot! That's the theme of this tasting event, now in its sixth year. Sample 200 pinot noirs from California and Oregon wineries, including several exclusive to PinotFest. Also enjoy food courtesy of Noir Food & Wine and Altadena Town & Country Club. WHAT ... More >>

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 >>

Top 5 Gifts for Bread Bakers: Your Kitchen, My Boulangerie

For some of us, baking bread is something that we do without much thought, whenever it's cold enough to crank the oven, for giving to friends, when our kids demand it, or as a coping mechanism (see: the recent election, long distance relationships, Steve Nash). The smell of bread baking is a fundame ... More >>

Tech for Food Nerds: Chefs Feed 2.0 Launches Today

Chefs Feed, the app that launched a little less than a year ago, released version 2.0 today with a bunch of new cities and more social media interaction capabilities. Chefs Feed aims to do much the same thing as our Where the Chefs Eat posts aspire to -- that is, let the food professionals guide y ... More >>

Short Order Comes Up Short

The newish burger joint meets certain needs, but it's no must-try

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 >>

Time Machine Chefs: ABC's New Food Show Debuts in August, or Top Chef Meets Dr. Who

If you're tired of all the repeating chef reality shows out there, then ABC's latest foray into the genre will be worth checking out. The series pilot of Time Machine Chefs will air on August 16. No, this is not a food reality show with industry neophytes getting yelled at by Gordon Ramsay dressed u ... More >>

81: White Anchovy, Tomato, and Fresno Chile Pizza at Pizzeria Mozza

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. 81: White Anchovy, Tomato and Fresno Chile Pizza at Pizzeria Mozza. The mere mention of anchovies doesn't evoke pleasant memories for most people. Maybe someo ... More >>

L.A. Times Festival of Books Recap: Star Chefs Food Authors

Foodists could have done worse than to spend two sun-dappled days at USC last weekend for the L.A. Times Festival of Books. TV personalities and chefs including Michael Voltaggio and Chris Cosentino flaunted their skills at the Cooking Stage, Nancy Silverton dropped by for a chat, food journalists d ... More >>

More Fun With Dario Cecchini: His Dinner at Nancy Silverton's House

It was at the thirty year anniversary of Chez Pannisse where Nancy Silverton first met Dario Cecchini. At the time, Silverton only knew him as the famed Dante-reciting butcher of Chianti, but since then an international culinary friendship has been forged. Every year when Silverton visits Italy, she ... 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 >>

Short Cake Opens Friday Nancy Silverton Book Signing

Guzzle & NoshThe frisee lardon raft (left) and the bar (right) at Short Order.​Now that burger hub Short Order is running smoothly, the bakery component of Nancy Silverton and the late Amy Pressman's Farmers Market foray is set to open. Short Cake will debut this Friday at 9 a.m. Bakers Hour ... More >>

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 >>

Short Order: The Late Amy Pressman's Burger Obsession Stays Alive

If you've been around the back of the Farmers Market lately, you've probably noticed an odd glass appendage, and the funk of charred meat, and a waxing throng whose average age seems at least 20 years younger than the one next door at Du-Par's, a patio you'd swear didn't exist last week, and a fligh ... More >>

Short Order Opens Here's The Menu

Guzzle & NoshShort Order at the Original Farmers Market.​Short Order, the most anticipated burger restaurant since the dawn of time, will finally open tonight at 5 p.m. The burger joint fronted by Nancy Silverton, Bill Chait and the late Amy Pressman held a splashy opening party last night. St ... More >>

Mozza: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Nancy Silverton on a Pumpkin

Bi-Rite CreameryNancy Silverton as a pumpkin.​Nancy Silverton has been carved into a pumpkin and not as part sort of horrific Saw sequel but as an artistic homage sure to last throughout the ages -- or at least until the pumpkin rots. The hipster geniuses at San Francisco's Bi-Rite Creamery cr ... More >>

Is The Mozza Cookbook All Hype? Or Really That Good?

amazon.com​In our past cookbook reviews, when we have found a cookbook particularly compelling, we tend use words like "noteworthy," "fantastic" and yes, "compelling." But when Nancy Silverton's The Mozza Cookbook (with sous chef Matt Molina and writer Carolynn Carreño), which hits shelves t ... More >>

Q & A With Nancy Silverton: The Mozza Cookbook, The Problem of Gelato Doing One Thing at a Time Very, Very Well

A. ScattergoodNancy Silverton and her new cookbook at Mozza​ Nancy Silverton, who is an over-achiever in much the same way as is, say, Malcolm Gladwell, has had a productive summer even by her standards. Mozzas in Newport Beach and Singapore recently opened; Amy Pressman's burger project, Shor ... More >>

Test Kitchen Alumni Return for Anniversary

Guzzle & NoshSotto's boscaiola pizza; the exterior of the two restaurants; Picca's mollejita.​Next Monday, the former Test Kitchen space celebrates its 1-year anniversary with the return of several high-profile TK alumni to the kitchens. Upstairs at Picca, chef Ricardo Zarate will host Kogi im ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

Flickr/dubh​ 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 ... More >>

The Road To Singapore: Silverton, Batali and Bastianach Open Mozzas in Southeast Asia Pictures!

Far, far away in an island country known as Singapore, on the second floor of the 800,000 sq. ft. luxury mall known as Marina Bay Sands (a new Southeast Asian offshoot of the Rat Pack's old hangout of choice, The Las Vegas Sands), sits Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza. To the naked eye they are so e ... More >>

Barista Champ Nik Krankl Coming to Gelato Bar in Studio City

Barista extraoridinaire Nik Krankl, who just won the Intelligentsia barista championship for wholesalers in Chicago, will be showing off his steaming, swirling and pulling talents as guest barista at Gelato Bar in Gelato Bar's Studio City (4342 1/2 Tujunga Ave. Studio City, CA 91604). Pop in if you ... More >>

Barbara Fairchild Joins Twitter

​Barbara Fairchild, former editor of Bon Appétit, author of the just-published cookbook Bon Appétit Desserts, Studio City resident and generally lovely person, is now on Twitter. Because she has a bit more time these days (when we spoke to her by phone a few minutes ago, she was at home, h ... More >>

Updated: Pizzeria Mozza To Open in Newport Beach

Pizzeria Mozza​ Update: When a reader recently wrote in to ask about the status of the Mozza in Newport Beach, we thought we'd find out. Mozza general manager David Rosoff tells us that the pizzeria, which will be very similar to the original on Melrose and Highland, is coming along nicely. ... More >>

Your Chef Photo of the Day: Nancy Silverton's Circus Balloon Hat

From the Department of Silly Hats we have Mozza's Nancy Silverton sporting a stylish horizontally-challenged balloon hat at last weekend's 28th American Food & Wine Festival, Wolfgang Puck's charity event for Meals on Wheels. (The handsome yet oddly bare-headed guy to her right, is of course, is Moz ... More >>

September Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closures

October is creeping up on us, with or without this unexpected heat wave. Angelenos patiently waited in the 90-degree heat at the Abbot Kinney Street Festival on Sunday, September 26th, salivating over grilled cheese sandwiches, fried shrimp, bánh mì, funnel cakes and kitschy L.A. food trucks. If y ... More >>

Are Celebrity Chefs Good for Food?

Food Fight at LAX

Purveyor of bland challenges plans to upgrade cuisine

Mangiare in Famiglia

Nancy Silverton's meaty pop-up

Mozza 2 Learn: Cooking Class with Nancy Silverton and Matt Molina

Anne FishbeinNancy Silverton at her pizza station​On Thursday, Mozza fans are invited backstage for a cooking class with Nancy Silverton and executive chef Matt Molina. The class is one of the first in their Scuola di Pizza, a series of cooking classes which will run regularly after the first ... More >>

Focaccia at Mozza 2 Go, Mondays Starting September 28th

Nancy Silverton has been looking for something different to serve at Mozza 2 Go--something to serve by the slice, that people don't have to wait for, something with longevity. This year, during her annual trip to Italy, the pizza impresario travelled to Puglia, a region known for its distinct cuisin ... More >>

An Amendment: There Will Be No Nancy Silverton Burger Joint

Anne FishbeinNancy Silverton​Yesterday the blogosphere buzzed excitedly when EaterLA reported that Mozza's Nancy Silverton would be previewing burgers at Canele from her upcoming burger joint in the Farmers Market, called Grass Burger. A few hours after the story was posted though, Carolynn Ca ... More >>

Mozza 2 Go Delivery: Are You in the Zone?

If you live in Nancy Silverton's neighborhood or, to be more specific, the vicinity of her new Mozza 2 Go restaurant, you doubtless know that you can now get her near-legendary pizzas delivered. Many years ago, one's hipness in this town was measured by whether one lived in the 90210 area code, or m ... More >>

A Survivor's Guide to Food Festivals: Hydrate, Recycle, Pace Yourself & Don't Stalk The Chefs

Between the Gold Standard, Taste of the Nation L.A., and the Grilled Cheese Invitational, Los Angeles has hosted enough themed foodie conventions to provoke Christopher Guest's next mockumentary. Next weekend, the first annual Korean BBQ Festival and Cook-Off kicks off in K-Town, and on August 20th, ... More >>

Mozza 2Go: Pizza on the Run

Cookbook watch: the Mozza Cookbook!

Anne FishbeinNancy Silverton & Matt Molina at MozzaCan't get a table at the Osteria or the Pizzeria? Soon you can make lardo pizza at home. Nancy Silverton and Mozza executive chef Matt Molina are currently working on the Mozza cookbook. "It's going to be real restaurant recipes, not dumbed down ... More >>

Mastering the Art of Julia: How Did Nancy Silverton Make Julia Child Cry? "I thought, 'Oh, my God, I burnt the HELL out of Julia Child.'"

Anne FishbeinSilverton: She made a Child cryIn 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 icon Julia Child --we talk to Mozza's Nancy Silverton ( ... More >>

The Next Mozza: Nancy Silverton Gives Squid Ink Preview of New To-Go Restaurant and Pizza School

New Mozza's eastern storefront in prep mode on Melrose.Most feverishly anticipated restaurants get one big shot at an opening splash. It's the rare case where a food business can get two chances to make a major impression, let alone three. Mozza, however, is an exception. First, salivating palates ... More >>

Best Pizza: Pizzeria Mozza

The Big Idea

Osteria Mozza

Italian L.a.

The 20 Best

The New California Pizza Kitchen

Mozza lays down the dough

Believe the Hype

Pizzeria Mozza

First Bite: Bon Appetit

Ask Mr. Gold

America Childless

Julia Child, 1912–2004

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

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

The Morning After

Sandwiches from leftovers

Creme Brulee

And the sweetness of selling out