Rene Redzepi

Girasol Review: CJ Jacobson's New Studio City Restaurant Doesn't Always Succeed

The chef's stint at Noma is a clear influence but the execution sometimes trips him up.

This Week's Restaurant Review: Girasol in Studio City

This week, our review considers Girasol, the new restaurant from CJ Jacobson in Studio City. You can read the full review over in the food section, or get an abbreviated taste below. Chef: CJ Jacobson is best known as a Top Chef contestant, having appeared in both seasons three and ten. In between, ... More >>

Christina Tosi and Zoe Nathan Give a Science & Food Talk at UCLA A Pie Personality Quiz

An apple pie bake-off with a twist opened the final installment of the UCLA Science & Food lecture series this past Sunday, in which students enrolled in the corresponding undergraduate class vied for the best in final group project. The range of theories, as it turned out, would expand further when ... More >>

UCLA's Science and Food Series: The 2013 Season

If you were among the lucky few who spent many an evening sitting in a UCLA lecture hall last spring, listening raptly as Dave Chang or Rene Redzepi talked about all the crazy stuff they do in their food labs, then it's time to grab your calendar and email the university again. This year, Professor ... More >>

Alma Review: This Downtown Restaurant May Be the One You've Been Waiting For

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

Eats at the London 2012 Olympics

LONDON -- Game on for eating well during the Olympics, which begins today, July 27, and run through August 12. Already one of the best dining cities in the world, London has been spiffed mightily up for the Olympic games. Billions have been spent on new athletic venues; streets have been reconfigur ... More >>

88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market

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. 88: Fried Pig Tails at Night Market. Kris Yenbamroong's Night Market, a next-door offshoot of West Hollywood's Talesai, has quietly taken on the mantle of ... More >>

David Chang at UCLA: Umami Reverse Engineering The Joy of MSG

So what did David Chang pass around at last night's UCLA science and food lecture? After Rene Redzepi handed out seaweed ice cream at the previous lecture, expectations were perhaps higher than they'd be at a normal university event, where people do not generally get experimental snacks. The Momofuk ... More >>

Q & A With Professor Amy Rowat: Food and Science at UCLA, Danish Gastro-physical Societies Experimental Cakes

If you've been attending UCLA's Science & Food lectures, which began in April and continue through next month, you'll know who Professor Amy Rowat is. She's the one who put the series together, whose happy task it was to find sand fleas and an old electric blanket for Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams ... More >>

Norwegian Cakes and Cookies: Sverre Saetre's Norwegian Pastry Book A Recipe for Wreath Cake Tart

Scandinavian cuisine is newly hip, thanks to René Redzepi and Noma in Denmark. Now Norway is getting into the act with something that just might steal Redzepi's show: glorious, buttery pastries and rich, creamy desserts. The contender is Norway's star pastry chef Sverre Saetre, whose book on moder ... More >>

Food News Roundup: Food Stamps at Farmers Markets, Disneyland's Club 33 Eater L.A.'s Pizza Week

The Philadelphia Inquirer: The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $4 million grant will help supply the technology for farmers markets to accept food stamps. (The Electronic Benefit Transfer card has largely replaced paper coupons.) Eater L.A.: Chinese pizzas, most expensive pizzas ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/7 - 5/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "I was never trying to make a statement about vegetarianism at Ubuntu, I was just trying to showcase the best ingredients I had available." Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Prefabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post- ... More >>

Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams at UCLA: Seaweed Ice Cream Cricket Sauce

The crowd that gathered last night at UCLA's Moore Hall to hear chefs Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams and Professor Amy Rowat give a lecture on food and science had more fun than is customary at most academic gatherings. Redzepi, the chef and founder of Noma in Copenhagen, and Williams, the head of ... More >>

The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again (And Again)

Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the third consecutive year, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Congratulations to Rene Redzep ... More >>

UCLA's Science and Food Series: Rene Redzepi and Lars Williams Lecture Rescheduled for May

If you were all geared up to attend UCLA's Science and Food Series with Noma chef Rene Redzepi on April 2, only to find yourself crying into your edible dirt when the lecture was cancelled, cheer up. UCLA has rescheduled "The Exploration of Deliciousness" with Professor Amy Rowat, Rene Redzepi and L ... More >>

Time Magazine Picks 100 Most Influential People in the World: Including Two Chefs

Yesterday Time Magazine named it's 100 Most Influential People in the World, proving yet again that lists are more important than real news. Among the hundred super important people are two chefs, both of whom unquestionably deserve to be at the top of any list that includes foodists. (One could not ... More >>

Spain's Elena Arzak Named World's Best Female Chef

Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Fe ... More >>

7 Food-Related April Fools' Pranks: From Spielburgers to Bacon-Scented Kitty Litter

Yesterday was April Fools' Day, that sacred holiday in which you can't trust anyone any more than you already don't. And even though it was a Sunday, a good number of food-related folks (including us) nonetheless jumped at the chance to prank a witting or unwitting audience with various fake tweets ... More >>

[Updated] UCLA's Science & Food Series: Or, Why There's A Modernist in Your Soup (or at Your Dinner Table)

Update: The lovely folks at UCLA have just told us that there are still spots available for the June 9 lectures. Maybe go reserve one now. General admission is $20; UCLA students get in free with a valid student ID. This semester is a pretty good time to be a "non-science student" at UCLA: 50 lucky ... More >>

A Recipe For Foraged Green Salad with Goat Cheese A Foraged Greens Primer

You don't have to be a Nordic, Michelin starred-chef like Rene Redzepi to work wild-grown foods into your cooking. We can forage right here in Los Angeles County. Because of our summery winter, edible plants such as Lamb's Quarters, Miner's Lettuce, Nettles and Wood Sorrel, are flourishing now in ou ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Le Comptoir

Chef Gary Menes' latest appears, for a bit, at downtown's Tiara

Red Medicine: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

dubh/Flickr​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. Los Angeles Times: Farmshop gets 2.5 stars, local artisan distilleries, gnocchi by Tom Colicchio. New York Ti ... More >>

Q & A With Ruth Reichl: Gilt Taste, L.A. Food, The Role of The Restaurant Critic, Her Movie The Corrective of Food TV

As you probably know, Ruth Reichl was recently in town for a launch party at Mozza for Gilt Taste, the shopping-as-literature site of which she's the editorial advisor. We caught up with her over coffee at José Andrés' Tres: frilly patisserie, coffee urns, decor like Monty Python meets Versailles ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Recommends Ink.

More Ink for Michael Voltaggio's Ink

Los Angeles is the land where the celebrity chef was born, where Q ratings ruled, where journalists first learned to ask, "What do you cook on your night off?'' But L.A. has never seen a phenomenon like Michael Voltaggio, whose snarling passion, antihero good looks and devotion to his chef brother h ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Picca

At Ricardo Zarate's restaurant, Peruvian meets the Japanese izakaya

Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

vegetation: planting thoughts: Rene Redzepi Wants to Make Chefs Smarter

aliciazs/flickrThe kitchen at Noma​ Are you a chef or a farmer? Can you fly to Copenhagen in late August? If so, and you act quickly, you can join René Redzepi's club. On the 27th and 28th of that month, the celebrated Noma chef will host vegetation: planting thoughts, an exclusive symposi ... More >>

And Now, A Brief Message From Rene Redzepi ( His Grandma)

​ Screenshot of Rene Redzepi's Twitter page​

And Now, A Brief Message From Rene Redzepi

Screenshot of Rene Redzepi's Twitter page​

2011 James Beard Media Award Winners

​It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>

Red Medicine

Jordan Kahn's Vietnamese eatery deserves notoriety for its food, too

Top 10 Cookbook And Drink Gift Pairings: The Hard Alcohol Edition

J. GarbeeSaffron Makes So Many Things Better. Much Better.​Those crazy low Amazon prices are great if you're buying a new cookbook for yourself, but they quickly deflate that $50 $32 Noma perceived gift value. What better to pair with a cookbook than something to drink? Because those "blueberr ... More >>

Fighting Childhood Obesity, One Cloudberry at a Time

Creative Nation/FlickrClaus Meyer on the set of "New Scandinavian Cooking"​ The author of over a dozen cookbooks, a cooking show host, and a part-time professor at the University of Copenhagen, Noma co-owner Claus Meyer has started a passel of successful food-related businesses over the past 2 ... More >>

Russian Circus Act Cruel to Fish, People as Well

Charlie Brewer/FlickrFish at Sydney Market​ Restaurants can be circus acts. You know the type: massive, splashy, loud, with iffy, over-priced food and, more often than not, some off-putting, over-wrought theme. Still, even Ninja New York can't hold a candle to a real circus act, especially o ... More >>

The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​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 ... More >>