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Paso Robles

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    10 California Summer Wine Events

    Summer is a wine-drinking marathon in California, and up and down the coast, each weekend brings pleasant opportunities to imbibe outside. The diversity of events reflects the state's varied wine-growing regions. Those on hotel grounds come with a room night package -- a smart way to go. Because i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Thanks for Drinking: Craft Beer Sales Rise Despite Sluggish Overall Market

    The Brewers Association has just released this year's numbers on U.S. beer sales. If you prefer Manifesto Eagle Rock Wit to Blue Moon (which is owned by MillerCoors) the news is good. Beer sales slowed overall, slipping 1.3% by volume. Within the craft beer industry numbers continued to rise with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    Trees Of Antiquity: Where To Buy Your Heirloom Apple, Apricot, Peach Sure, "Flavor Grenade" Seedlings

    flickr user thomitheosAn Apple-Filled Backyard​Most farmers market discoveries tend to involve a new way cook those black trumpet mushrooms or choose a Crenshaw melon. But some days, you just get lucky. Or perhaps it was our discussion with a few farmers about spaders (a device that tills the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2011

    Drink This Now and Later: Firestone Walker XV Anniversary Ale

    B. MesirowFirestone Walker XV from box to glass​The enlightened readers of this blog should be well aware by now that great beer is just as complex as wine. However, in the off chance that you have yet to ascend to the craft beer plane of being, we've found you a shortcut to Nirvana: Fireston ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Atwater Village Farm: Now Open How To Farm in a Gold Lamé Dress

    Patrick O'DonnellPiper Goldstein and products​There's a new wave of urban farmers, but Piper Goldstein takes it to the next level. She likes to farm in a gold lamé dress and work boots. A native to Los Angeles, she actually has Woodland Hills tattooed across her stomach. But she's not your ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Windrose Farm's New Smoked Chipotles: Warning, Your Pantry Will Never Be The Same Bill Spencer's Smoking Secrets

    jgarbeeBill Spencer Checking On His Tomatoes and Jalapeños​We could simply say that Bill Spencer is not the type to take the air-drying easy route to preserving the organic tomatoes and jalapeños that he and his wife, Barbara, grow on their Paso Robles farm all summer. And that they're fanta ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Le Comptoir: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    jgarbeeBill Spencer Checking On His Tomatoes and Jalapeños​We could simply say that Bill Spencer is not the type to take the air-drying easy route to preserving the organic tomatoes and jalapeños that he and his wife, Barbara, grow on their Paso Robles farm all summer. And that they're fanta ... More >>

  • News

    November 10, 2011

    L.A. Farmers Markets Exposed

    Often, produce sold at stalls isn't organic, grown by small farms — or even spray-free

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2011

    Capybara, World's Largest Rodent, Spotted in Paso Robles: Is It Wrong to Lust for a Carcass?

    AnimalPhotos.infoHydrochaeris hydrochaeris, aka the capybara​The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum has plenty of bizarre beasties in stock, many of them from creatures not found within a thousand miles of L.A. -- or within a thousand years of 2011. Which is why the museum is captivated ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2011

    Hearst Ranch Winery: What Wines to Pair with A Castle Visit Free-range Zebras and Grass-fed Beef Burgers

    Jeff KirshbaumBranding takes on its original meaning at the Hearst Ranch Winery ​ Free-range zebras, undeveloped California coastline as far as the eye can see and an epic house museum: Welcome to the Hearst Ranch Winery's neighborhood. Few California wineries can compete with the tasting room ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Good Food Jobs A Few Local Opportunities

    abrowncoat/flickrOjai Olive Oil: Your food job?​ Thanks to Michael Pollan, the mainstreaming of farm-to-table activism, and co-ops, many college students graduate with the hope of working with food -- in the ever-expanding field if not a field itself. While ten years ago, they'd have been a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Live Review: Basement Babies at The cAbin, By George!

    Sam BlochBasement Babies​Review by Sam Bloch. WHO: Truman Peyote, Matthewdavid, Sun Araw, Basement Babies WHERE: The cAbin, By George! WHEN: 7/5/11 In September 1995, an MTV reporter caught Bjork backstage at England's massive Reading festival. A few months earlier, she'd released her seco ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Weiland Brewery: The Most Ridiculous Happy Hour in L.A.

    Jake OgleWeiland interior ​ Los Angeles is 500 square miles and a thousand bars. So you have a pretty good selection of "happy hours" to get your drink on. That said, the two Weiland Brewery locations in downtown LA offer incredibly reasonable happy hour prices Monday-Friday from 3-7 p.m. an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Osteria La Buca Gets New Chef, New Menu

    ​In addition to a streamlined new look, Melrose-and-Western neighborhood favorite Osteria La Buca is getting a streamlined menu courtesy of new executive chef Jason Neroni, an Orange County native known for his cooking at Brooklyn's Porchetta and Manhattan's 10 Downing Food & Wine. (He's also ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Zin City: This Weekend in Paso Robles

    artandscience/Flickr​ There's no sin in Zin--particularly the cozy, relatively smooth sort frequently produced in Paso Robles. This coming weekend, March 18-20, the region will celebrate vines both old and new at the Paso Robles Zinfandel Festival where more than 50 wineries will play host to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    2010 Grape Harvest: California Winemakers On Why Tricky Doesn't Always Mean Tragic

    J. GarbeeThe Last Drops Of Harvest​To those of us who live in L.A. sans air conditioning, the mild California summer of 2010 was an unseasonably pleasant, food-truck friendly three months notably devoid of sweat-free nights other than the brief late-breaking heat wave. To the California wineri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Taste at the Wine House

    Ben CalderwoodWine in a box​ It can be a strange, solitary exercise, consuming wine dispensed by a computer. Purchase your access card from the order desk at the rear of the shop, steal a glance at the Wine House's Old & Rare cellars where magnum prices climb into the five figures, and make y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2010

    Cellar At Your Own Risk: Wine Is NOT Earthquake Proof Our 5.0 Weeknight Value Picks

    Flickr User scottottoOf Course The $4 Rosé Didn't Break​ As soon as we realized that no, we were not on a cruise ship sans Dramamine, Squid Ink did what we suspect most folks do during an earthquake: we lunged for the few prized bottles of Russian River Pinot still remaining from a particular ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Top 10 Wine Splits: The Thank You Gift That Keeps on Sipping

    wine.comGift Baskets Are So Last Year​Ladies and gentlemen, a polite reminder. The quintessential dinner party dilemma is not whether to risk veering from Mapquest directions, but what to take as a host/hostess gift. If you regularly arrive at the door without a small token of thanks, such as ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2009

    Beer, Coffee, Cupcakes and Greyhounds: Firestone Walker's "13" Anniversary Ale Release Party

    Firestone WalkerBrewmaster Matt Brynildson ​Tomorrow will be the third, and final, Friday the 13th in 2009 (the next triple play won't occur until 2015). On Saturday, we suggest you celebrate surviving yet another night of horror flick marathons by driving to Paso Robles for Firestone Walker's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2009

    Light up the Night at Diwali, India's Festival of Lights

    Oil lamps are traditional for Diwali​Dress up in your brightest and best to celebrate Diwali, India's Festival of Lights. The official day is October 17, but you can beat that by going to the L.A. Mumbai Sister City Affiliation's Diwali party the weekend before. On October 11, the group will g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Roxo Port Cellars: Don't Pass Paso without Pausing for Port

    What started as a tipsy 4th of July fireside chat four years ago between nextdoor neighbors Aaron and Erin Culp, both 1999 Cal Poly wine program graduates, and Jeffrey and Kimberly Steele, more seasoned business types, turned into one more fortified American business. As the Atascadero couples nib ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Don't Cry Into Your Wineglass: California Wine Wins Malbec Competition

    Barbara HansenA glass of Malbec​Don't cry, Argentina, but you've lost a bit of your glory. The top Malbec in the 2009 San Francisco International Wine Competition didn't come from Argentina, where Malbec is so common that wine judges there get tired of tasting it. Voted overall best was a Cali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Midlife Crisis Winery in Paso Robles: The End of One Crisis, The Beginning of Another

    Jill Mittan looks tired. But despite the looming death of the five year-old winery dream she shared with her husband Kevin, she's still pouring tastes and telling visitors about the local wine scene at Midlife Crisis Winery. On Sunday, July 27th that will end too.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2009

    Wine Guy Explains Wine Things: Good Cab, Bad Cab

    Wine Guy Lou Amdur of "Lou: A Wine Bar" returns this week with some thoughts about West Coast Cabernet Sauvignons, several tips on What Not To Buy and the answer to the question "Why do I always feel so gross after dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2009

    Days of Wine and Antelope

    The coming week ushers in a whole new slate of wine drinking opportunities around town. On Monday Lou is serving up ... antelope. Antelope? Really? As in the cute slinky bovid, or that ex-urban, quasi-rural valley located off of Highway 14? Yeah, but this meat from Broken Arrow Ranch also apparent ... More >>

  • News

    June 26, 2008

    Thousands of Drunks Beat the California DMV

    Drinking boaters lost their driver's licenses. But it was the DMV that broke the law.

  • Columns

    December 13, 2007

    Family Affairs

    “...these guys are on their computers all day. And the only way they’re going to date is on these sites. I mean, otherwise, they would just be hobbits for the rest of their lives.”

  • Art+Books

    March 29, 2007

    The Other Coast

    West meets East in “The Modern West”

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    Let’s Go for a Ride!

    Car culture on Pacific rims

  • News

    February 5, 2004

    Pilgrims’ Progress

    Blue and clerical collars team up

  • News

    November 1, 2001

    Who She Took With Her

    . . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

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