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March 21, 2013It's also a great place to get a drink in Hollywood
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March 6, 2013Recipes for delicate cakes of minced and bound seafood are as old as, well, maritime cooking. The crab version we mostly eat today -- crab, mayonnaise, breadcrumbs, eggs, seasoning and some onion, gathered up and pan-fried or broiled -- is a colonial American recipe that hasn't changed much since it ... More >>
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September 17, 2012It used to be, a dozen years ago or so, that there weren't that many spots in town where you could find a decent seafood taco, much less a great one. Fast forward to 2012, and fish and shrimp tacos have gone through something of an evolution. There are plenty of fish in the sea now; you can barely ... More >>
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August 23, 2012Is Ricardo Zarate's Mo-Chica deserving of the hype?
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May 1, 2012One of the hard truths reached while researching our 10 Best Sushi Restaurants list a few weeks ago was that Los Angeles has far too many superb sushi restaurants to ever be condensed into a single list. One area that felt particularly overlooked (with only one entry in the top ten) was the San Fern ... More >>
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March 29, 2012With all the talk in our culture of locavorism, sometimes the noise of that discussion can have the odd effect of drowning out one our region's signature wild food sources. We do live in a coastal city, after all, and stretching back millenia inhabitants of the Los Angeles area have sustained themse ... More >>
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January 25, 2012Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant criticDear Mr. Gold:
It's that time of year, cold and dark early, which means there is nothing more inviting than that wave of heat and spice when you enter a great Italian trattoria. I'm hunting for the best bouillabaisse in town, in a joint that is as u ... More >>
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November 2, 2011Guzzle & NoshSea bass at a fish market.Maybe the latest crime show spinoff ought to be CSI: Seafood. More than one-fifth of the nearly 200 pieces of seafood bought at retail stores and restaurants in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut weren't what they claimed to be, according to an investi ... More >>
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September 15, 2011At Ricardo Zarate's restaurant, Peruvian meets the Japanese izakaya
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April 25, 2011As far as book release timings go, Seattle private chef Becky Selengut really got the raw end of the omakase deal when her new cookbook, Good Fish: Sustainable Seafood Recipes from the Pacific Coast, was released this month. Glance at that subtitle and how can you not think of the recent trag ... More >>
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April 15, 2011A. ScattergoodTikin-Xic at Chichen Itza
If you read our interview with Chichen Itza chef-owner Gilberto Cetina, you will have been reminded that the chef, besides running one of L.A.'s favorite restaurants and writing a soon-to-be-published cookbook on Yucatecan cuisine, makes a mean bottle o ... More >>
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February 8, 2011Flickr/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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November 23, 2010
"You're eating what off a truck?" a friend asked when I told him I would be sampling the wares at The Lobsta Truck (@lobstatruck).
There's nothing like seafood -- tricky to source, expensive and prone to spoilage -- to fortify or chip way at one's prejudices about food trucks. If there's an ident ... More >>
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October 15, 2009Bivalvular (and other) pleasures on Ocean Avenue
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June 25, 2009Like many great dishes, the operating principles of ceviche are simple: take seafood, marinate it in citrus, occasionally throw in some spice. If that doesn't sound good to you, you're probably an idiot. Living in Los Angeles and not liking ceviche is a lot like living in Germany and not liking hard ... More >>
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March 13, 2008Matsuhisa dresses up at home
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February 7, 2008Shattering the stereotypes
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April 5, 2007A soft touch beyond the hard rules of Hiko Sushi
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March 1, 2007Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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June 22, 2006Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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April 27, 2006Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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February 16, 2006Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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November 17, 2005Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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November 10, 2005Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night
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June 30, 2005Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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March 24, 2005Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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February 17, 2005Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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February 17, 2005Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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November 11, 2004Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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May 20, 2004Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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April 10, 2003Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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November 14, 2002Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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March 7, 2002Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen
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August 23, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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February 15, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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February 15, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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February 15, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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February 15, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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February 15, 2001Water Grill’s split personality
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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
Edited by Lovell Estell III
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December 16, 1999Japanese pub food in Studio City
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October 21, 1999Finally a great fish taco in Los Angeles
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October 21, 1999You never sausage a thing in your life . . .
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July 22, 1999A Guide to Our Advertisers Part Two
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June 3, 1999Yummy protoplasm, just as nature intended
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