Shellfish

Top 3 Food & Drink Events: Master of Sangiovese, Suds & Shellfish A Benefit Dinner

Master of Sangiovese The North American Sommelier Association (NASA) is teaching an intensive certification course on the varietal. Native to Italy, the grape has been planted in other wine regions including California, Australia and Greece, which is among the lessons covered in the two-day course. ... More >>

Now Open: David LeFebvre's Fishing With Dynamite in Manhattan Beach

Seafood has been a large part of David LeFevre's life, beginning with childhood summers in Virginia to his repertoire as a chef at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago and Water Grill in downtown L.A. It was such that when he opened Manhattan Beach Post he noticed there was a very definite expectation for i ... More >>

littlefork Review: If You're Craving New England in Los Angeles, Jason Travi's Restaurant Is the Place To Be

It's also a great place to get a drink in Hollywood

10 Best Crab Cakes in Los Angeles

Recipes 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 >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: PinotFest, Wine Chocolate Tasting, "Back at Café du Monde," The Strand Dinner Crawfish Boil

Pasadena PinotFest Grand Tasting Praise the pinot! That's the theme of this tasting event, now in its sixth year. Sample 200 pinot noirs from California and Oregon wineries, including several exclusive to PinotFest. Also enjoy food courtesy of Noir Food & Wine and Altadena Town & Country Club. WHAT ... More >>

5 Potluck Options for Your Super Bowl XLVII Party

Much to our annoyance, Los Angeles still doesn't have a football team. But we do have sports fans who enjoy a good game. You might even be one of them. If you are, this weekend you're probably going to a party to watch two teams that aren't from here play in Super Bowl XLVII. We might not have a do ... More >>

Happy National New England Clam Chowder Day: Call Us Ishmael

Today is National New England Clam Chowder Day, which, if you're a Patriots fan, probably couldn't come at a better time. After all, a very good clam chowder can be remarkably comforting, as Ishmael discovered in Moby Dick: ... a warm savory steam from the kitchen served to belie the apparently che ... More >>

Chefs Cook at Home, The Holiday Edition: Border Grill's Mary Sue Milliken

This week and next, we'll be featuring the holiday food traditions of L.A. chefs. Today, we talk to Border Grill's Mary Sue Milliken about her December traditions. "It can't be December without my stollen -- a fantastic buttery yeast dough studded with the best Farmer's Market dry fruit (cognac i ... More >>

Cookbook Of The Week: New Classic Family Dinners Campanile's Clams Casino Recipe

Cooking is often about remembering -- actively, looking forward and without regret. You might be inspired by a family member, an incredible vacation, a certain farmer's produce or a neighborhood restaurant dish that you loved. A dish, perhaps, in New Classic Family Dinners by Mark Peel. This isn't ... More >>

Cousins Maine Lobster Opens in Pasadena Lobster Ice Cream

Opening Friday, September 21 at 5 p.m., Cousins Maine Lobster evolved from food truck to brick and mortar in a mere 5 months, as a response to hundreds of customer requests. Housed within Pasadena's Live Mixx lounge, the shellfish centric brand, known for serving fresh lobster and crab delivered dai ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Paul Hancock's Cioppino From Catalina Island's Avalon Grille

If you haven't been to Catalina Island -- 22 miles out into the Pacific from the second most populous city in America and a mere 70-minute boat ride away -- lately, you might consider it, particularly now that we're having another run of triple digit temperatures. Snorkeling. Parasailing. A night-ti ... More >>

The Undercover Vegetarian: L&E Oyster Bar

L&E Oyster Bar, which is the subject of this week's restaurant review, is a seafood joint, and as such, it's a pescatarian's paradise. There's very little meat on the menu -- bacon in the clam chowder, chorizo on some toast, one lone steak sandwich. The rest is all fish and shellfish.

Raphael's Valentine's Celebration

Neptune's Net: When You're in a Bad-ass Seafood Mood

N. Galutenclam chowder at Neptune's Net​When the weather gets cool, the surf gets big and the traffic on PCH dies down, Malibu once again belongs to us, free of the tourist hordes in their rented Aveos. And so we crank down the top, crank up the Suicidal Tendencies and bomb up the coast to Nep ... More >>

Animal Chefs Shook and Dotolo Reveal New Seafood Restaurant: Son of a Gun

N. GalutenAnimal (and Son of a Gun) chefs Jon Shook (right) and Vinny Dotolo​After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazi ... More >>

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

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 >>

First Bite: Lobster Rolls on The Lobsta Truck

"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 >>

Viztango: Shrimp Scampi from a Food Truck?

Now that you can get pretty much any culture's culinary staple tucked in a taco, I decided to think outside the tortilla. Could I find good shrimp scampi on a food truck? As a friend of mine asked: why would you try? Chutzpah, hubris, a calculated attempt to strengthen my GI tract's disease resist ... More >>

Lobsterfest Gets Cracking

Lobsterfest A lobster meal​ Set to go off tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday at Ports O' Call Village in San Pedro, the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival is sure to be a polarizing affair. Committed locavores will lock up their bibs at the notion of celebrating New England's quintessential crus ... More >>

IF YOU'RE LUCKY, YOU MIGHT GET SOME TAIL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT WE MEAN*

*That's lobster tail, pervert.

A Recipe From the Chef: Hideo Yamashiro's Curry-Infused Shrimp Tempura

Orris chef-owner Hideo Yamashiro likes to call the small plates of food that are his favorite way to eat "little munchies." This recipe, for curry-infused shrimp tempura, is a popular item on the short but carefully selected menu. Yamashiro came up with this dish during his travels in his native Jap ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Open Season

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer aalorber, who took the shot of last Sunday's crawfish boil at Dominick's with his iPhone. That would be the 3G, which apparently works a whole lot better than the one Steve Jobs tried to demo the other day. Happy crawfish season. ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Wolfgang Puck's Soft-shell Crab Tempura

A. ScattergoodWP24's soft-shell crab tempura with fried spinach​ If you head to downtown Los Angeles, just past the vast complex that it LA Live, to the newly opened Ritz-Carlton, and press the elevator button for WP24 and the 24th floor, you will come to a restaurant that is not only Wolfgang ... More >>

Nostalgia With a Twist: The Tar Pit, Mark Peel’s Latest

Consider the Oysterette

Bivalvular (and other) pleasures on Ocean Avenue

Crustacean Frustration: Whither the Vietnamese fried crab?

Cooking Lobsters With Water Grill's David LeFevre How To Boil One Alive, Properly

Lobsters come with their own iconography. Think Woody Allen chasing one around a kitchen in Annie Hall. Or, more recently, a squeamish Amy Adams in Julie & Julia. Sure, you boil them alive, but that's the way it's done, and they don't have any feelings anyway. Didn't Cobain write a song about that? ... More >>

Crustacean Frustration: Whither the Vietnamese Fried Crab?

HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOBSTER?

L.A. Lobster Fest Goes For Guinness Record

The lobsters at last week's Long Beach Lobster Fest won't hold a claw to the colossal crustaceans at our own Port of L.A. Lobster Festival in San Pedro this weekend. Although the festival is already recognized as the biggest event of its kind, this year they're looking to make it official: starting ... More >>

COME ON AND TAKE A FLEA RIDE

End of Week Bits n' Bites: Fuego in Long Beach, Hungry Cat Crabs, Smokin' Joint BBQ, Essex Happy Hour

Fuego at the Hotel Maya brings a coastal oriented, pan-Latin menu and a non-chain option to the Long Beach waterfront. The restaurant, bar and lounge incorporates an indoor/outdoor flow, faces expansive views of the port and beyond, and shows off a mixture of polychromatic materials and textures des ... More >>

Reservoir of Flavor: Chef Gloria Felix Opens the Newest of Silver Lake's Grown-Up Restaurants

The long-awaited restaurant is in the space pioneered by the takeout shack Netty's

"Family, Food, Fun and Sun"

Red Scare at Boiling Crab

Shell games

Mood Indigo

Blue Velvet’s Kris Morningstar cooks for the night

Simon Says

Ask Mr. Gold: Manhattan Clam Chowder

Get Shucked

Lima and Vine

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

The Life Aquatic

Ask Mr. Gold

Shellfish

Orris Takes Root

The King Crab and I

Wabi-Sabi Wowie