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    April 16, 2012

    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 >>

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    December 21, 2011

    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 >>

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    November 10, 2011

    Huckleberry: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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 >>

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    November 10, 2011

    Akasha: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 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 >>

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    March 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    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 >>

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    January 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 12, 2010

    Where There's Smoke, There's Fuego

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

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    August 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    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.

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    March 2, 2010

    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 >>

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    January 26, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Burgers

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 27, 2009

    Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

    Between a tweet and a truck

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 14, 2009

    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

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    April 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 13, 2008

    La Mill: The Latest Buzz

    The next generation of coffee cuisine

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    October 25, 2007

    Globavore or Locavore

    Two nights at Grace, close to home and from afar

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    August 2, 2007

    Praise the Lard

    Pig heaven in Pacoima

  • Eat+Drink

    June 22, 2006

    Certifiable

    Big organic versus the little guys

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    August 5, 2004

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Big organic versus the little guys

  • Eat+Drink

    November 7, 2002

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Big organic versus the little guys

  • Eat+Drink

    September 26, 2002

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Big organic versus the little guys

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