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April 25, 2013This week, the restaurant review considers Hinoki and the Bird, the new Century City restaurant from David Myers. We urge you to read the full review, but you can read the vital-stats-only version below:
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April 4, 2013The Vagrancy Project founder has talent to spare
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March 6, 2013Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out last week, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today, we're focusing on special occasion restaurants. If you're like us, a special occasion is just as likely to happen at one of the list's taco stands as it is at one of thes ... More >>
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February 27, 2013We food writers are a cranky bunch. Given today's blog cycle and demand for daily conversation, any small nuance of the dining world is fodder for essay-length dissection, usually of the negative variety. We don't like small plates. We don't like communal dining. We think wine prices are rising. We' ... More >>
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January 10, 2013Austrian chef Bernhard Mairinger has brilliantly old-school technique
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December 26, 2012Umami Burger New Year's Special
Umami Burger locations in Los Feliz, Pasadena and Hollywood as well as Umamicatessen downtown will all offer $5 glasses of Champagne, $3 Singha and discounted burgers and food specials all night until closing.
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December 13, 2012Today's restaurant review focuses on Spago, Wolfgang Puck's newly remodeled restaurant in Beverly Hills. Read the full review, or take a quick tour of the facts, plus a few extras, below.
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August 8, 2012What's the point of a pop-up restaurant? It's a bit strange to think that several years into a dining movement that has given chefs greater creative and entrepreneurial freedom than ever before, the answer to that question is still pretty nebulous. Ostensibly, the goal is to open up a full restauran ... More >>
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June 21, 2012This week's restaurant review is of ink., Michael Voltaggio's Melrose Avenue restaurant that was recently named the best new restaurant in the country by GQ magazine. We'd love it if you, you know, READ THE REVIEW, but if you're too LAZY OR WHATEVER, here's a few things you should know about the res ... More >>
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May 31, 2012In today's feature food story, our new restaurant critic, Besha Rodell, considers the vast new dinner table that is her Los Angeles. In the process, she tells you something about herself, her methodology and a recent California epiphany. (A seat at Pizzeria Mozza. A walnut.)
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April 30, 2012Everyone 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 >>
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February 28, 2012Some of our favorite young chefs made Zagat's first ever Los Angeles 30 Under 30 list (a.k.a. how to make anyone over 30 feel inadequate). The honorees include Nyesha Arrington (Wilshire), Joshua Drew (Farmshop), Jordan Kahn (Red Medicine), Ilan Hall (The Gorbals), Casey Lane (Tasting Kitchen), Crai ... More >>
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January 19, 2012LudoBites 8 (with its eminently more sane booking policy) debuted last night, which means a new wine list curated by Domaine LA along with chef Ludo and his wife, Krissy. The big news: the wine list now includes beer and cider (a Normandy cide from Domaine du Manoir in Montreuil, France, to be preci ... More >>
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September 23, 2011AmazonZagat's 2012 edition for Los Angeles is out. The little rectangular maroon book that is, not the Zagat 2012 L.A. Google map. The guide, which was first published by Tim and Nina Zagat in 1987, has determined that this year's restaurant scene is good: 35% of those polled said it's better ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
Ramen Bull
Kicking off its Popchef series, Breadbar's consulting Chef Noriyuki Sugie debuts Ramen Bull, a menu of five beef-centric ramen dishes: short rib ramen ($11); oxtail ramen ($15), beef tongue ramen ($12); spicy ramen ($14); and corn beef ramen ($13). Available Monday through Saturday, 5 t ... More >>
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April 27, 2011A. ScattergoodJoseph Mahon in the Bastide kitchen
The trajectory of a fine dining chef these days is circuitous -- see: Ludo Lefebvre -- more often than not encompassing pit-stops, pop-ups, food trucks, food festivals, fried chicken epiphanies, grilled cheese sandwich trophies, then back to b ... More >>
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April 18, 2011No, Jonathan Gold has not won a second Pulitzer, but he's come pretty damn close. As the Weekly's editor Drex Heikes just emailed us all:
Jonathan Gold was one of the three finalists this year for the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Columbia University just announced.
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April 11, 2011Jeff Nalin/Maison PicAnne-Sophie PicEvery year S. Pellegrino names the world's 50 Best Restaurants, and in advance of this year's awards, the water company has announced a new award: the World's Best Female Chef. The winner, unsurprisingly, is Anne-Sophie Pic, whose restaurant Maison Pic is i ... More >>
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February 3, 2011Providence offers a lineup befitting a special occasion
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December 29, 2010Anne FishbeinGary Menes and crew at old Marché kitchenChef Gary Menes, who took over the kitchens at Palihouse back in May, is stepping down at the end of the week. He is planning to open a new restaurant with business partner François Renaud. Previously, Menes has cooked at Patina, The Fre ... More >>
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November 15, 2010Guzzle & NoshZagat: still doing it backwards.Long before Yelp and other online restaurant sites were all still twinkles in computer programmers' eyes, Zagat was using the power of the hive-mind to create definitive restaurant guides that were local, social and portable. That's all over.
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November 2, 2010CASATacos de Camarones Fritos at CASA.
In the first part of our interview with Alex Moreno, CASA's newish chef talked about his attempts to bring updated versions of other taqueria's dishes onto the menu. In part 2, Moreno gives more details, including his spin on classic dishes like birria ( ... More >>
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May 20, 2010Before you buy a wine book, you really should figure that little detail out. Are you more the Good, Better, Best gimme-the-best-wine-already type, or more of a Sommelier Prep Course pensive swirling soul? Hopefully this Squid Ink review of two recent wine book titles will help you find your p ... More >>
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November 18, 2009Andy Cook, executive chef at both Gordon Ramsay at the London West Hollywood and the month-old Boxwood Café, has been at the posh hotel since it opened in the summer of 2008. As we learned yesterday, Cook, a native of Birmingham, England, has become very fond of Los Angeles, of its weather and its ... More >>
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November 2, 2009Erinn EichingerKooza TicketsIf you've been anywhere near the Santa Monica pier lately, you know the circus is in town: dominating the landscape these days is the yellow and blue striped big top that is Cirque du Soleil. The troupe is in town with their new show Kooza.
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August 20, 2009Jenn GarbeeAnthony Anguille and his PotionsAnthony Anguille knows his pu-erh, the pressed large leaf tea prized for its earthy flavor and wine-like proclivity to aging. The 22-year-old is the "tea sommelier" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
"A colleague had introduced a tea program to pair w ... More >>
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June 18, 2009Open to new members in Rowland Heights
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October 9, 2008On his own at last, chef has opened a dream of a restaurant
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December 20, 2007Return of the Magnificent 7
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September 27, 2007Dining on Culver City’s most fashionable few yards
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April 19, 2007First time for a restaurant critic, first for L.A. Weekly
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May 4, 2000The fish, the whole fish and nothing but the fish
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February 17, 2000A Guide to Our Advertisers, part two
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April 15, 1999A taste of the great outdoors
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September 24, 1998Here's where to get your goat.
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July 2, 1998Pickled garlic, hot bread, gallons of rice and kebab's your uncle. Did somebody say fatwa?
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