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Easter Sunday Food Drink Specials

For those who celebrate the holiday, Easter Sunday is a time to gather loved ones for brunch and, maybe, an afternoon egg hunt. If you're planning to host a celebration at home, there are purveyors and markets like Lindy & Grundy who offer a range of resources from traditional smoked hams and legs o ... More >>

10 Best Restaurants for Brunch in Los Angeles

Brunch is one thing that's done well in Los Angeles, a town that's very well-versed in mashups -- Carmeggedons I and II, for starters -- that grab more attention than should be necessary. And while it may not be the favorite meal service of chefs, this internal struggle is not transparent when you'r ... More >>

Beefsteak 2012: Flank Steak, Gluttony A Meat Troll Wedding

By any standard metric, this past Saturday's Beefsteak dinner at Vibiana was a success. There were hors d'oeuvres from chefs Jason Travi, who turned out truffled eggs and bourbon shots topped with veal broth foam, and Neal Fraser, who presented crab cakes, salmon blini and plump little lamb kidneys ... More >>

Meat Me Downtown: Neal Fraser's Beefsteak Dinner Returns

Last year's Beefsteak dinner at Vibiana's downtown was a pretty epic affair. An ode to old-timey New York, it was boisterous, use-your-hands, all-you-can-eat steak and beer drinking party based on the famous 1939 New Yorker story by Joseph Mitchell. Our former food critic Jonathan Gold even chroni ... More >>

Test Kitchen Returns: Testing ... 1, 2, 3

Test Kitchen was born in August 2010. Located in the lower level of Townhouse, the restaurant that would become Sotto and Picca, it was a culinary experiment, a rotating pop-up that featured different chefs and menus every night. During its 2010 run, from August to December, Test Kitchen held dinner ... More >>

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade: A Recap of the 2012 Event

L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade Stand is arguably the premier charity auction/food and wine event raising money -- a lot of money -- for pediatric cancer research. Hosted by Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, A.O.C., Tavern) and David Lentz (The Hungry Cat), it was held for the third year in a row ... 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 Return of Test Kitchen: Rocco DiSpirito, Neal Fraser Quinn Hatfield

When the first Test Kitchen dinner launched in fall 2010, located in the lower level space that would later become Sotto, few diners -- if any -- realized the magnitude of what was happening. But by the program's end -- after chefs like Jordan Kahn, Javier Plascencia, Walter Manzke and a dozen other ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up, Wirsthaus 1-Year Anniversary, Ode to Julia Child Dinner Chinatown Summer Nights

Royal/T's Farewell Pop-Up with Cordero Negro Culver City's Royal/T shuts its doors for good after next weekend, but not before going out with a bang. Chef Sandra Cordero, who apprenticed under Neal Fraser and Michael Cimarusti, will serve a special two-night dinner featuring traditional tapas like m ... More >>

Chefs Ben Ford, David LeFevre Neal Fraser Cook for GrowingGreat

It's being touted as a "unique foodie experience" for Angelenos. That is, Angelenos with $200 to spare. The "Taste of Spring" event happening May 19 at a private Manhattan Beach home involves cooking demonstrations from David LeFevre (Manhattan Beach Post), Neal Fraser (The Strand House), and possib ... More >>

"Porkapalooza" Cochon 555 Returns

Just when you'd managed to expunge -- via marathons and wheatgrass-and-spinach elixirs -- the last traces of Wilbur from your tract, the Cochon 555 roadshow is back for another round. This time, five local chefs, five heritage hogs, and five winemakers will tangle at the House of Blues on Sunday, M ... More >>

Create a Big Stink: Cabbage Cooking Contest at Metabolic Studio

If you love nothing more than to stand in the kitchen thinking up ways to make those humble heads of cabbage really sing, well then this is your opportunity to take center stage. As part of the Mayor's Day of Service -- aka Good Food Day, March 31 -- there will be a gathering of cabbage fanatics in ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Chefs for Hire, Spice Table Recipes Passion for Cilantro

Technology: Why cook when you can hire professional chefs to make dinner via Kitchit. In L.A., choose among Neal Fraser (BLD, Grace), Mark Gold (Eva), Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), and others. Food & Wine: Three Spice Table recipes (simplified!) from Bryant Ng, with photos by Anne Fishbein. Gilt Ta ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews a Beefsteak at Vibiana

Chefs Feed: Your Latest Food App

So many apps, so much food, so little time. The latest fun food app is called Chefs Feed, which was released yesterday by Credible, Inc., and it's sort of like an aggregate of all those Bon Appétit back pages where your favorite chef told you what they liked to eat on their own time. The Los Angele ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

National Donut Day: Celebrate with Huell Howser BLD

It's not so amaaaaaazing that National Donut Day is almost upon us. It occurs every year on the first Friday in June. What is amazing is that our very favorite Tennesseaan-turned-Angeleno, Huell Howser, is celebrating the big day with a trio of donut-themed episodes on his show, California's Gold. ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia

First Look Inside Playa: John Sedlar's New Restaurant Opening This Friday

Nick ArnoffPlaya's Strawberry Dessert​ Playa, the second Latin restaurant from Rivera chef John Sedlar, opens this Friday, February 11 in the Beverly Boulevard space formerly home to Neal Fraser's Grace. Turn the page for details, including Sedlar's new menu items, Julian Cox's inspiration be ... More >>

Just Your Average Chef Fest in an Historic Landmark National Park Hotel: Yosemite Chefs' Holidays at the Ahwahnee

Chris AndreChefs' winter wonderland: the dining room at the Ahwanee.​ For those who want to experience our country's natural treasures but aren't the camping type, here is the event for you. The 26th annual Yosemite Chefs' Holidays series of chef demonstrations, presentations, dinners, recepti ... More >>

Test Kitchen's Final Night: Alums Come Together To Feed You For A Good Cause

Flickr/Muy Yum​ Monday, December 13th, may be Test Kitchen's final dinner service, but Bill Chait and Brian Saltsburg's restaurant experiment is going out with a big-time culinary (and charitable) bang. For $150/person, Test Kitchen and non-profits Share Our Strength and Gettlove, are bringin ... More >>

The Mashed Potato: A Chef Survey

Nicholas Dynan, WBUR Radio​ Chances are, this is how Thanksgiving Day is going to look if you're cooking dinner: You're going to make sure you have a defrosted turkey on hand, get some pies in the oven, and then tackle a sack of potatoes. According to the USDA, the average American consumes mo ... More >>

Kid-Friendly Tacos

On four wheels, no later than 7 p.m.

Ask Mr. Gold: Kid-Friendly Tacos On Four Wheels, No Later Than 7 p.m.

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: As a mother of two kids young enough to still like noodles but old enough to make fun of Justin Bieber, I find myself in search of a kid-friendly taco truck. Good old-school tacos: no fusion, no Kogi lines. Anywhere from Venice to Pasaden ... 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 >>

Chefs Come Together to Support Good Food for All Angelenos

​ Philanthropic food lovers, mark your calendars: on October 6th some of the biggest and most sustainability minded chefs in the city, along with some conscientious local farmers, are coming together for the fundraiser Good Food for All, A Taste of the Los Angeles Foodshed. Hosted by the n ... More >>

Your Berkshire Pig Update: ReRide Ranch Pork For Sale at McCall's

Karen YooLefty Ayers and Nathan McCall, with Berkshire pork​ If you're the sort of person who dreams about jamón ibérico, who has repeatedly followed La Quercia's Acorn Edition from Jude Becker's farm to Herb Eckhouse's prosciutto factory, who has read Peter Kaminsky's Pig Perfect so many t ... More >>

A Molecular Gastronomy Class At Grace: From Lily Pads and Cabbage Leaves A Spherification Recipe

On a recent Monday morning a group of Los Angeles chefs and bartenders metaphorically traded their chef coats for lab coats at a food science class given by Fany Setiyo of Le Sanctuaire. Neal Fraser had set up the class at Grace restaurant for chefs wishing to learn more about molecular gastronomy ... More >>

Grace Update: An Anniversary Menu Doughnut Classes

LA Weekly Flickr pool/djjewelzDungeness crab salad at Grace Restaurant​ Grace, Neal and Amy Knoll Fraser's Beverly Boulevard restaurant, has neither closed nor yet relocated to it's future home downtown in St. Vibiana's rectory. All that in good time. Right now they're not only open, but celeb ... More >>

Eat Locally, Get Abused Locally: MasterChef Los Angeles Casting Call This Sunday

If getting screamed at by celebrity chef-ranter Gordon Ramsay happens to be one of your lifelong ambitions, then you have someplace to be this Sunday. On January 31st, there will be an open casting call for the L.A. auditions of MasterChef, Ramsay's new Fox show, at The Grove Sur la Table. The show ... More >>

Dinner at the Best Chef's Table In Town: What Would 20 of L.A.'s Top Chefs Dream Up?

Imagine gathering twenty of LA's top chefs -- in one cramped restaurant kitchen -- to cook up a 50-person thank you dinner for a beloved longtime customer. No egos allowed. On the chefs' night off. Free of charge. Oh, and each chef must agree on the menu. Not going to happen? It did. The secret, ... More >>

Once Bitten, Twice Fried: Best French Fries in Los Angeles, Part 2

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, pe ... More >>

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 >>

Grace Update: A View of The Cathedral What The Frasers Have Planned For Their New Restaurant

When Grace Restaurant closes and relocates, late next year, in St. Vibiana's rectory downtown, it will be after some pretty extensive work has been done to the space. The restaurant will occupy two floors of the the 1933 rectory, underneath Cardinal Mahoney's old suite (now a bridal suite) and a flo ... More >>

Milkshake Madness at BLD with Pastry Chef Mariah Swan 2 Recipes for Spiked Milkshakes

Mariah Swan, pastry chef at both of Neal Fraser's restaurants, BLD and Grace, had an epiphany last year. Why not take a childhood favorite, milkshakes, and make it more grown up by adding alcohol? Thus Milkshake Madness was born at BLD, held the last Sunday of every month. Swan transforms classic ... More >>

Buddha's Belly: Yakisoba and Chefs Hang-out

Last night at Eva, chef-owner Mark Gold was in fine form, greeting guests and chatting table-side on the third night since his new Beverly Boulevard restaurant opened. "You know, I wouldn't have ordered that," he said, considering the plates of foie gras with summer melon and maple, and Hokkaido sca ... More >>

Terroni's Foosball Goal: Italians Got Game

Brooke Burtonfoosball, Italian style​Every generation has its game. Before there was Wii, there were billiards, table tennis, darts and horseshoes. For many Italians from the 70's and 80's, the game they love is foosball. Which is why Max Stefanelli, managing partner of Terroni Restaurant on ... More >>

Head to Sea with Those Who Know Their Fish: Edible L.A.'s Fishing Excursion this Sunday

If one were to assemble a Noah's Ark of the current L.A. high-end restaurant scene, here's in part what it might look like.

Seen and Tasted: Nancy Silverton, Neal Fraser, the Boys of Animal and More Meet "L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook" Author at 3rd and Fairfax

L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook: Meet Me at 3rd and Fairfax by JoAnn Cianciulli brings the focus of L.A.'s famous gathering place back to where it belongs. Instead of waxing poetic about the dancing fountain, shiny retro trolley, and other tools of faux urbanism that have hogged attention si ... More >>

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