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Roy Choi

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2013

    Tokimonsta on Asshole DJs and Her Twitter Game

    Tokimonsta is the subject of our music feature this week; for the story, we hung out with the beat scene DJ/producer at the dinner party event celeb chef Roy Choi whipped up for her at his restaurant A-Frame. A few days later we sat down with her over green tea to talk about her recently released so ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2013

    Chego Update: Closed on Overland Moving to Chinatown in April

    For all of you who've been obsessively driving by the little strip mall on Overland that has for the last few years been the location of Roy Choi's Chego, hoping to see the Chego truck or evidence that Chego has reopened since it closed, ostensibly for renovations, in December -- an update. "I don ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 28, 2013

    Kogi Truck: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

    For all of you who've been obsessively driving by the little strip mall on Overland that has for the last few years been the location of Roy Choi's Chego, hoping to see the Chego truck or evidence that Chego has reopened since it closed, ostensibly for renovations, in December -- an update. "I don ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 28, 2013

    A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

    For all of you who've been obsessively driving by the little strip mall on Overland that has for the last few years been the location of Roy Choi's Chego, hoping to see the Chego truck or evidence that Chego has reopened since it closed, ostensibly for renovations, in December -- an update. "I don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2013

    And Now, Some Brief Messages From Roy Choi

    For all of you who've been obsessively driving by the little strip mall on Overland that has for the last few years been the location of Roy Choi's Chego, hoping to see the Chego truck or evidence that Chego has reopened since it closed, ostensibly for renovations, in December -- an update. "I don ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2013

    Food News Roundup: 10 Worst Meals in 2012, Fishing With Dynamite How to Eat a Persimmon

    The Guardian: How to eat a persimmon. Pigeons & Planes: 20 Things Everyone Thinks About The Food World (But Nobody Will Say). Riding Shotgun: Happy New Year's from Roy Choi. The New York Times: After Crispy Pig Ears, 10 Trends for 2013. Daily Dish: Fishing With Dynamite, David LeFevre's new rest ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2012

    Chego Update: Restaurant Closed Chego Truck Hits the Street, or Parking Lot

    Roy Choi has blogged the news that Chego has shut down for repairs. Never fear though, the chef has exactly the solution you'd expect from the man who invented the Kogi BBQ Truck: a Chego truck. Which vehicle is now parked outside Chego, kind of like a mobile home outside a home. The dining room i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2012

    Anthony Bourdain Coming To L.A. for Show At Pantages Theater with Roy Choi

    As part of his "Guts and Glory" tour, Anthony Bourdain will be coming to Los Angeles for a show at the Pantages Theater on April 16 of next year. L.A. chef Roy Choi will join Bourdain on stage for an evening of (according to the press release) "candid, often hysterical insights about their life's wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2012

    Sunny Spot Venice Gets a New Menu Format Nixes Shared Plates

    The move from the phrase "tapas" to the more inclusive "small plates" signaled the fact that the shared food phenomenon could apply to almost any cuisine, not just Spanish. Restaurants opened with New American small plates, Japanese small plates, Caribbean small plates. But one such Caribbean restau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2012

    6 Things We Learned From the Roy Choi Ludo Lefebvre Talk

    As part of the ALOUD series at the L.A. Central Library, two of the L.A. dining scene's most controversial and beloved figures got together on Wednesday evening to finally set the record straight about their respective unorthodox paths through the culinary world during a program titled "Taking the K ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2012

    Tech for Food Nerds: Chefs Feed 2.0 Launches Today

    Chefs Feed, the app that launched a little less than a year ago, released version 2.0 today with a bunch of new cities and more social media interaction capabilities. Chefs Feed aims to do much the same thing as our Where the Chefs Eat posts aspire to -- that is, let the food professionals guide y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2012

    Test Driving Chego's New Menu Korean Pizza Coming Soon

    Word came down from the Kogi blog today that Roy Choi was dropping his revamped menu at Chego, his popular rice bowl haven in Palms. Some of the more popular original items like the pork belly bowl, "Ooey Gooey" fries and the "Rock Yer Road" were left intact, but for the most part the change was p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

    The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2012

    L.A. Food & Wine Festival: Rosé, Ribs, and Summer Heat

    After a weekend filled with many bottles of rosé and short rib sliders, the second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival wrapped up Sunday afternoon at L.A. Live after four days of chef-driven tastings, demos, samplings and other events that featured some of the top culinary talents in the countr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    Food News Roundup: Death by Walk-In, Animal Dudes Talk Foie Vintage LA Restaurants

    If you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, you have undoubtedly had the irrational fear that you won't be able to get out of the walk-in, and you'll die in there. Turns out that fear isn't so irrational: Huffpost Food reports that a restaurant owner in Tennessee was found dead inside his walk-in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2012

    90: Furikake Kettle Corn at A-Frame

    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. 91: Furikake Kettle Corn at A-Frame. Roy Choi is rightly credited with many things: launching a fleet of trucks considered the modern street food equivalent of ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 24, 2012

    Pulling Off the White Tablecloth

    In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    Q & A With Roy Choi: Slinging Tacos at Midnight, Calling Out Jamie Oliver Choi's Vegetable Moment

    On a bench outside Handsome Coffee Roasters in downtown Los Angeles' arts district, after the requisite coffee inside and under the (also requisite) California sun, Roy Choi sat down late last week to talk about, well, lots of things. He wanted a cigarette, or a few of them. He wanted to be close to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2012

    Patricia Nazario Considers Traditional Food Trucks How They've Evolved Post Kogi

    If you only started eating your dinner at taco trucks after Roy Choi revolutionized the food truck scene, you might not realize that food trucks have been lining the streets of this town for a very long time. In today's feature food story, journalist and documentarian Patricia Nazario looks at the t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    The Life Cycle of a Story: From Roy Choi's Musings to the Presumptive Death of Kogi

    "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws," Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To that short list of exceptions, we add sensationalized news, which seems to propel itself through the blogospher ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Listen Now: Roy Choi Mike D on 'Food Is the New Rock'

    Prior to his days covering the city's tastiest (and unhealthiest) lunches under $10, Los Angeles food blogger Zach Brooks of Midtown Lunch worked as a music programmer at Sirius Satellite Radio in New York. But when Brooks went bicoastal two years ago, he didn't give up his love for music but instea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Transmission LA: AV Club: Roy Choi, Mike D Gangster Food Love

    It's not as if Roy Choi (Chego, A-Frame, Kogi, the world) doesn't have lots of things to do in his off hours, what few there are of them. But if Mike D (Beastie Boys, the world) asks you to cook some food, you'd probably do it to. Or, to quote the chef, "I don't know where you come from but in my wo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    Chego To Go: Your Kimchi Chow Gets Even More Portable

    If your idea of fun is not circling a strip mall off Overland for an hour just to get hooked up with Roy Choi's justly famous buttered kimchi bowls and Sriracha bars, your wishes (loud and profane as they doubtless were) have been granted. Starting next week, Chego will be offering both take-out ser ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 8, 2012

    Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life

    If your idea of fun is not circling a strip mall off Overland for an hour just to get hooked up with Roy Choi's justly famous buttered kimchi bowls and Sriracha bars, your wishes (loud and profane as they doubtless were) have been granted. Starting next week, Chego will be offering both take-out ser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2012

    Roy Choi on Cookbooks: Fannie Farmer, Betty Crocker Choi's 41-year-old Recipe

    If you love both Roy Choi (Kogi, Chego, A-Frame, the world) and your treasured stack of cookbooks, those demi-glace-spattered volumes cluttering your kitchen or serving as doorstops to same, you might want to turn the page to today's feature food story, in which Choi considers his path from local ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    4 Leap Year Dining Events for Feb. 29: The Edison, 29-Cent Wine, CITY Night, Roy Choi/Mark Peel Mashup

    [Update: Just added the event at The Edison.] Make Leap Day William happy: Buy a Leap Day cocktail and receive a free sidecar created by The Edison's bartenders. Also, 40% discount on cocktails, beer, wine and selected food items. (As with every Wednesday, all wine by the bottle is half-off.) WHEN: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Ecco Announces First 3 Bourdain Titles: Roy Choi and Some Other People

    ​Last September Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Anthony Bourdain (chef, crime novelist, No Reservations guy, friend-of-Chang, occasional writer of Treme episodes, etc.) would have his own line of books, one that would publish a small handful of titles every year. W ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2012

    Roy Choi Mark Peel: Together at Last

    Here's a post-Valentine's Day love affair to whet your appetite. Kogi/A-Frame/Chego/Sunny Spot impresario Roy Choi and Campanile/Tar Pit maven Mark Peel will join forces for a one-night food and music mashup on Feb. 29. While Pollyn's Adam Jay Weissman spins tunes in the Tar Pit lounge, Choi and P ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Chego: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Here's a post-Valentine's Day love affair to whet your appetite. Kogi/A-Frame/Chego/Sunny Spot impresario Roy Choi and Campanile/Tar Pit maven Mark Peel will join forces for a one-night food and music mashup on Feb. 29. While Pollyn's Adam Jay Weissman spins tunes in the Tar Pit lounge, Choi and P ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Here's a post-Valentine's Day love affair to whet your appetite. Kogi/A-Frame/Chego/Sunny Spot impresario Roy Choi and Campanile/Tar Pit maven Mark Peel will join forces for a one-night food and music mashup on Feb. 29. While Pollyn's Adam Jay Weissman spins tunes in the Tar Pit lounge, Choi and P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Test Kitchen Alumni Return for Anniversary

    Guzzle & NoshSotto's boscaiola pizza; the exterior of the two restaurants; Picca's mollejita.​Next Monday, the former Test Kitchen space celebrates its 1-year anniversary with the return of several high-profile TK alumni to the kitchens. Upstairs at Picca, chef Ricardo Zarate will host Kogi im ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    Roy Choi Takes Over Beechwood Kitchen; Jamie Lauren Out

    Beechwood (left) and chef Jamie Lauren (right)​Kogi, Chego and A-Frame impresario Roy Choi can add one more restaurant to his resumé: Beechwood. We heard about this a couple weeks ago, but now it's official. Chef Jamie Lauren is out and Choi is in at the sleek New American restaurant in Venic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Don't Be a Mayo Swoosher 99 Other Tips from Chefs

    Food Network​The May 2011 issue of Food Network Magazine claims to give you the "100 Greatest Cooking Tips (of All Time!)." These are the "greatest" tips, presumably, because they come courtesy of "the top chefs in the country." Los Angeles represents well, with a number of our city's chefs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Chego Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary: The Ultimate Chego Bowl An Eating Contest

    Flickr/Muy Yum​ It's hard to believe it's been only been a year since Roy Choi and the Kogi crew opened up Chego, Choi's version of Los Angeles expressed through bowls of rice smattered with the diverse flavors of the city. After doing the food-truck-as-bar-food thing at the Alibi Room, Choi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Bourdain on Beard, Questions for Roy Choi The Online World of Cannibals

    -- Anthony Bourdain on the James Beard awards ("I would sooner attend a Renaissance Fair in Hell"). [No Reservations, via The New York Times.] -- The Great Mayonnaise Debate. [Food Republic] -- Two words: Absinthe Cake. [Food Gal] -- A cup of coffee & illegal immigration. [Los Angeles Times] ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Fries Beer: Frysmith Opens Inside Hollywood Bar Loaded

    Photos courtesy of Frysmith.​Roy Choi already has two restaurants (Chego, A-Frame), but this Friday, a non-Kogi food truck will open its first-and-mortar location. Frysmith (@frysmith) is moving into beer-centric Hollywood rock 'n roll bar Loaded, offering optional "loaded" versions of all the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Food & Wine Best New Chef 2011, The People's Edition: Vote Now

    ​ 2011 may well be the year of the grassroots movement, whether that be in politics abroad or in considerably less important matters here at home. Food & Wine, which has annually named the best new chefs in the country since 1998, this year has given the vote to the rest of us. Starting today, ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 13, 2011

    Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

    A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

  • Eat+Drink

    December 23, 2010

    The 10 Best Dishes of 2010

    From entree to cappuccino, short ribs to bacon-wrapped bacon

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Best Clam Chowder: Roy Choi's Bowl at A-Frame

    N. GalutenA-Frame's clam chowder​ If you've spent any time at all on the East Coast, you will have had the obligatory bowl of clam chowder. Lots of them, really. And whether you're in the New England camp or the Manhattan camp, you will have had many bowls of truly awful clam chowder. As some ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/15-11/19

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs." First Bite: Take the A ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 18, 2010

    Take the A-Frame

    Roy Choi turns toward Hawaii

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    First Bite: Take the A-Frame, or Roy Choi Turns Toward Hawaii

    ​Where Roy Choi goes, people will follow -- this has been well-established. Because if the legions of the hungry are willing to follow his Kogi trucks when they alight in deserted motel parking lots or alongside Orange County topless clubs, it stands to reason that they will go where they migh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Road Trip: Pimento Cheese Fries at The Penguin Drive-In A Recipe

    Denise Tristan-Abelepimento cheese​ A few years ago, we discovered that the secret to why the crusts of the fried pickle chips at The Penguin Drive-in in Charlotte, NC are lighter and crispier than ones in Los Angeles eateries is that the tangy, fluted pickle rounds soak in a buttermilk batter ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 2, 2010

    Baek Hwa Jung: Kogi's Choice

    Roy Choi's favorite Korean cafe

  • Eat+Drink

    June 3, 2010

    Chego: Outside Inside

    Kogi's Roy Choi goes all strip mall on us

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    The Other Pot In The Kitchen: NY Times Has Dope Conversations With Shook, Choi, Others

    N. Galuten​ The New York Times ran an interesting article today about the degree to which marijuana is fueling current restaurant trends toward, fattier, comforting and more deeply sensual cuisine. It also revealed (perhaps with minimal surprise) that a lot of big name chefs in the country sm ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 15, 2010

    Not Your Father's Rice Bowl: Roy Choi Is Back, With Chego

    N. Galuten​ The New York Times ran an interesting article today about the degree to which marijuana is fueling current restaurant trends toward, fattier, comforting and more deeply sensual cuisine. It also revealed (perhaps with minimal surprise) that a lot of big name chefs in the country sm ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Chego, Kogi Chef's First Restaurant, Opens Next Month

    The date is set. Kogi mastermind Roy Choi's first honest-to-goodness restaurant, called Chego, will open its doors in Palms on April 7th. Kogi launched a Korean taco truck phenomenon that has spawned many imitators since it began, but this new restaurant will not be the first time Choi's food has b ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    January 29, 2009

    The Korean Taco Justice League: Kogi Rolls Into L.A.

    From Rosemead side streets to Venice dive bars, hungry Angelenos have a new way to roll

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