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More Events: Kentucky Derby, Cinco de Mayo A Coffee Workshop

Kentucky Derby at Willie Jane Willie Jane will open early on Saturday in celebration of the Kentucky Derby, offering a bar menu that includes biscuits with short ribs; crispy Niman Ranch pig tails; and deviled eggs. The restaurant will be collecting donations toward OneFundBoston.org, benefiting vic ... More >>

5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District. *6 Developments That Will Change the Downtown Arts District's Future*How the Arts District ... More >>

DIY Porchetta: How to Make Your Own Porchetta Feast Recipes From Barbrix Chef Don Dickman

Porchetta, as we recently discovered, is having its moment in Los Angeles. Or maybe it's having another moment, as the glorious Italian ode to pig is hardly a recent discovery. The roasted pork dish had been gracing Italian menus, Italian food trucks and rustic Italian kitchens for a long time befor ... More >>

Huckleberry: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Consumer Reports Study Finds Pork Teeming With Bacteria

Oh, you dirty swine. A new and alarming Consumer Reports study found that pork chops and ground pork are teeming with nasty bacteria that cause food poisoning, CBS News reports. Urvashi Rangan, Consumer Reports' director of consumer safety and sustainability, told CBS, "We found potentially harmfu ... More >>

TEDx Symposium This Weekend Exploring Food Food Systems in the 21st Century

If you're looking for something to do this weekend beyond reading about the 232 tons of potatoes Olympic athletes are tossing back this year, there's a meaty symposium at the Fowler Museum at UCLA on Saturday: TEDx LA Miracle Mile: Food and Food Systems in the 21st Century. According to the TED w ... More >>

Most Meat Is Full of Antibiotics, Survey Finds

Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York has released the results from a survey of more than 60 fast food, retail, production and grocery companies asking them about their policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry, Forbes reports. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate their level of transp ... More >>

2012 L.A. Father's Day Dining Guide

With Father's Day approaching this weekend, we bring you your Los Angeles dining guide for Dad's special day. From grilling classes to bottomless craft beer to dad-themed cupcakes to truffle agnolotti from one of the best pasta kitchens in town, turn the page.

A Recipe From the (Now Itinerant) Wine Guy: Lou's Pig Candy

Several weeks ago, when it was announced that Lou Amdur was selling his wine bar, LOU, we offered a parting culinary keepsake for Squid Ink readers -- the recipe for LOU's famous pig candy. Want to know the origin story of this sweet, bacon-y side dish? If so, forget about the chocolate-dipped pork ... More >>

10 Holiday Take-Out Menus: Where To Go for Great Food To-Go

Huckleberry CafeOld Fashioned Coffee Cake at Huckleberry Cafe​Holiday dinners are stressful enough. Ditch dinner reservations and hours in the kitchen for a ready-made holiday dinner. Step 1: pick your menu. Step 2: place you order. Step 3: pick up order. Step 4: Eat. There'll be ample time fo ... More >>

Huckleberry: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Akasha: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Q & A with Chris Phelps and Zak Walters: Driving to Napa Valley for Pork Converting Vegans at Salt's Cure

A. FrougChris Phelps and Zak Walters from Salt's Cure​ If it's manly to love meat, there are no two manlier men in Los Angeles than chefs Chris Phelps and Zak Walters of Salt's Cure. The two opened Salt's Cure to supply local restaurants with specialty products such as house-made bacon and sau ... More >>

Q & A with Adam Fleischman of Umami Burger, Part 1: The 5th Taste, In-N-Out The Quest for Global Domination

photo courtesy of Adam FleischmanAdam Fleischman​ Given that we're deep into Los Angeles' full-blown Golden Burger Age, with the evidence amply documented on this site, it's almost hard to remember a time before it. The burger landscape was just on its way to becoming fully fleshed out (pun in ... More >>

Intelligentsia Pasadena Update: Gnocchi, But No More Lasagna Cupcakes

L. Balla​ When Intelligentsia opened in Pasadena last year, coffee geeks and foodies rejoiced: Not only could you finally get a decent macchiato in Old Town, but also charcuterie, lasagna cupcakes and Matthew Kaner-selected wines to boot. Now, six months later, almost all of that is still tru ... More >>

Valentine's Day Round-Up, Part 1: Prix-Fixe Menus

Flickr/Bakerella​ These days, every time we walk into a supermarket, pharmacy or even drive past certain intersections of town, we're faced with an explosion of red and pink, well, everything: "Be My Valentine" cards, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, fake long-stem roses, and endless tins of ... More >>

James Beard House Brings Its "Friends of James Beard" Benefit To SoCal

James Beard Foundation​ If you missed the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour stop in L.A. last summer, not to worry; the culinary powerhouse is headed back to Southern California, this time bringing with it a weekend full of cooking demonstrations, extravagant meals and even a few Food Network s ... More >>

Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Looking for love — and a good restaurant — along the Belmont Shore

Ask Mr. Gold: Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Could you recommend a first-date restaurant in or around Long Beach? I might be willing to venture farther, but I would prefer to remain as close to the Belmont Shores area as possible. --Sherrick B., Long Beach Dear Mr. B.: The Long Be ... More >>

The Wood Cafe's Fuzzy Logic

Ben CalderwoodHow big is it?​Everyone knows the basic algebra of a diner is starch plus protein divided by coffee³--pancakes plus bacon or eggs plus potatoes in a myriad of ways for breakfast, bread plus meat (e.g., the Wood's tumescent 8-ounce Niman Ranch Woody Burger) for lunch.

How I Celebrated National Pig Day

"What did you do today, Daddy?" squealed the children. "What did you do to celebrate National Pig Day?'' "Why, the same thing I do every day," I said. And you know something? It was true! Yesterday at Ford's Filling Station, a restaurant whose specialty is nominally the $400 whole-pig dinners you h ... More >>

Give a Brittle Bit: Morning Glory Confections

Have you tried pouring gigantic stockpots of hot molten butter and water boiled with sugar and cornstarch onto silicone baking mats, then quickly smoothing it out to form uniform sheets of thin, crunchy, rich sweetness? Needless to say, it's an extremely hot and potentially messy task. Fortunately M ... More >>

Diary of a 6 Year Old Foodie: Can Rustic Canyon Take Down The Golden State?

A few months ago, our 6 year-old foodie took on the In-N-Out burger and the Father's Office burger, enjoying both but criticizing FO's for its structural integrity and lack of consistency from one bite to the next. In the end, he decided that the best burger was, in fact, from The Golden State. Toda ... More >>

Construction Report: Tender Greens Hollywood To Open Next Month

Fans of Tender Greens who live in Hollywood soon won't have to drive over to Culver City or West Hollywood or San Diego--or anywhere else, for that matter--for their eco-friendly salads and plates of grilled Niman Ranch flatiron steak. Tender Greens is opening their fourth--and largest--location at ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Burgers

Rosh Hashanah Catering: A Guide to Timely Ordering

Photo Credit: Adam BakerCoconut Macaroons​While your internal clock may run on Jewish Standard Time, measuring by approximations instead of absolutes, restaurants don't. Making coconut macaroons and briskets for hundreds takes time and careful planning. So even though Rosh Hashanah is about a ... More >>

Henry's Hat Monday Night Football Half-time Show: Stand-up Comics with Your Bar Food

This weekend marks the start of the NFL season, and Monday the beginning of Monday Night Football, and thus the onset of football-watching at local bars and eateries and pretty much any restaurant with a nice big flat screen television turned to the game. Henry's Hat, the new gastropub in Studio Cit ... More >>

Food Games: ID Your Burger

Thanks for playing last week's first installment of Food Games, in which we asked you to ID a burger. For those who answered the Umami burger, you were right. Soon you'll have two more Umami locations to order one; lucky you. So here's another test: where's this burger from? It is a very tasty in ... More >>

Golden State's Beer Warriors, All Hopped Up

The ale-intensive gastropub serves some of L.A.'s best burgers and a mind-blowing beer float with brown-bread ice cream from Tai Kim's cult gelateria Scoops

Many Tastes That Taste Great Together: Andrew Steiner's Cheese Dinner at Rustic Canyon

Flickr: andrewscheese Cheese maven Andrew Steiner, whose eponymous Santa Monica shop is conveniently close to Rustic Canyon restaurant, helps curate a Local Artisan Cheese Dinner there on Monday, April 20. Steiner's selections provide some interesting jumping off points from which chef Evan Funke an ... More >>

La Mill: The Latest Buzz

The next generation of coffee cuisine

Globavore or Locavore

Two nights at Grace, close to home and from afar

Praise the Lard

Pig heaven in Pacoima

Certifiable

Big organic versus the little guys

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold