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Top 5 New Year's Eve Food Events

Umami 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. WHAT: Umami Burger New Year's Special WHEN: Monday, Dec. ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Flan De Elote From Playa

Today's L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day is the flan de elote from the brunch menu of Playa in Beverly Hills. This gorgeous photo of the flan with flores de calabaza and quinoa, wrapped in a corn husk and paired with arugula, is brought to you courtesy of Darin Dines' flickr. And a reminder ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Summer Berry Gazpacho from Petrossian

With warm weather comes chilled soup. Gazpacho, a typically raw vegetable-based soup that's traditionally served cold, is featured here in this week's LA Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day. This photo comes to you courtesy of My Last Bite, and was taken at Petrossian in West Hollywood. Foie gras po ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Beer Dinner, Free Sandwiches at Langer's, Spanish Cooking Demo, Habanero Eating Contest, Cocktail Fundraiser Grilling Class

Golden Road Beer Dinner at Tin Roof Bistro Try a different Golden Road beer (including limited release brews Get Up Offa That Brown, Either Side of the Hill, and Hudson Rye Porter) with each of five courses prepared by chef Anne Conness. Golden Road co-founder Meg Gill, who we recently profiled in t ... More >>

P'tit Soleil Brings Canuck Cocktails More Poutine to Westwood

After almost of year of delays, Westwood's French Canadian restaurant Soleil is finally opening its newest addition next door, which will speciale in Quebecois cocktails and tapas. It's going to called P'tit Soleil, and will be located right next door to its sister restaurant, which has been run by ... More >>

A Diamond Jubilee Year: The Queen In Cupcakes, A Lamprey Pie Dilemma A Recipe For Her "Chocolate Perfection" Pie

After Mother's Day, it seems only fitting that we celebrate the Queen Mother. More so in a Diamond Jubilee year, as Queen Elizabeth II will be celebrating her 60th year on the British throne next month (the British monarchy is the exception to the typical 75-year diamond anniversary rule). You are p ... More >>

Eat This Now: Flan

Tacos, tequila and one more dish should be an ingredient for a proper Cinco de Mayo feast. On menus from Highland Park's My Taco to downtown's Border Grill to Santa Monica's El Chollo to almost every Mexican or Spanish-accented eatery in between, under desserts (postres) there will be flan. The ubiq ... More >>

Chef Joe Miller, Surfas a CSA Box

LA Weekly Flickr pool/WishingOnAsTar!raviloli at Joe's​In a way, fresh produce and the school cafeteria meatloaf have something in common: a sense of mystery. At least, if you get your produce from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program. Farmers send subscribers samples of whatever's ... More >>

Cafe Livre Update: Dinner Starts Tomorrow

Executive chef Farid Zadi had no plans to open Café Livre's seafood tagine for dinner. But he's eating humble pie (probably French, Algerian or Spanish, because that is the sort of food he cooks). And the café holds its first dinner this Friday, Feb. 17. From then on, he'll serve dinner Fridays an ... More >>

Churros for Hanukkah: Oil and Pluralism

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​Dear Mr. Gold: It's Hanukkah, and I want to have a party, but I live in a small apartment and hate frying things because the smell never goes away. I thought I would have a churros and spiked cider party instead. Where is the best place to get churr ... More >>

Mediterraneo: Best Craft Beer at a Tapas Restaurant

Since 2003, one of the hottest hangs on Hermosa's thriving Pier Avenue bar and restaurant scene has been "Med." With an inviting indoor bar and dining room, but an even better outdoor patio for bikini and board short clad people-watching, Mediterraneo was an immediate local hit for the killer tapas ... More >>

Chef Ludo Paella Dinner at Domaine LA

Guzzle & NoshPaella​Chef Ludovic Lefebvre veers from his French roots to cook a special paella dinner this Sunday at Domaine LA. Spanish importer José Pastor, who's known for trumpeting the more traditional wines of Spain and the Canary Islands, has curated a wine tasting of varietals that ra ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Recommends La Paella

Jonathan Gold Reviews LudoBites 7.0

LudoBites 7.0: Distilled Christmas Trees and Freedom

F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ We have been down this road before, you and I, six-point-oh times at least. Ludovic Lefebvre cooks an exquisite dinner in a space not designed to accommodate dinner. Reservations are difficult to get, sometimes extraordinarily difficult. You feel slightly foolish wa ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Weekend Paella, Pan Not Included

​Fire and rice. No, James Taylor has not released a new album. We're talking about paella. Really good Paella by Castillan chef Alberto Herraiz, owner of Fogón, a tapas bar in, of all places, Paris. Yeah, it's going to be one of those summers of sweaty culinary contradiction. Aren't they all. ... More >>

Eat This Now: Churros at Churros Calientes

T. Nguyen​ We love Salina's Churro Truck and Mr. Churro and other wonderful places that offer Mexican-style churros, but every once in a while, our sweet tooth gets a hankering for the type of churros you'd find served in parts of Spain and Venezuela. These are a smaller, a bit more delicate ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Churros & Chocolate

LA Weekly Flickr pool/R. E. ~churros and chocolate​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer R. E. ~. (Yes, we know, but that's what you get when you keep uploading a whole lot of really good pictures.) It's a lovely shot, of churros and hot chocolate, and one that's mak ... More >>

Julian Serrano's Paella Tips His Easy (Enough) Chicken Seafood Paella Recipe

Flickr user liuiaOnce you master the basics, weekend recipe tweaking is easy​Turning on the oven this time of year can feel so very wrong, and how many burgers can you possibly consume in one month (granted, a lot)? Enter paella. But does anyone actually ever make the Spanish rice and seafood- ... More >>

What Would Pau Do? LA Paella Brings Spain to L.A.

Ask Mr. Gold: Spain in L.A., or What Would Pau Do?

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I love this big giant melting pot we live in, but why do we have such little representation of Spanish food? Am I missing something? --Matt Armendariz Dear Mr. Armendariz: Probably because L.A.'s best maker of charcuterie, ... More >>

Meet Your NBA Champion Foodie: Pau Gasol Talks El Bulli, Bazaar, Kobe and More

You probably already know him as the second best player on the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. But what you probably don't know (unless you read our September interview with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti) is that he's also the team's resident foodie. He is, after all, from Spain. Squid Ink ca ... More >>

Name That Pastry Chef 3: Amy Brown of Provecho & Her Mexican Wedding Cookie Recipe

Yup, you were all correct. This week's Name That Pastry Chef is Amy Brown. The 30-year-old pastry chef served up late-night ice cream sandwiches at Magnolia in Hollywood before taking over the dessert menu at Provecho downtown in March. She's also the owner of the virtual bakery BrownSugarLA. On our ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Casa Comadres Secret Supper Club: Somewhere in NE Los Angeles, Grilled Octopus & Tamarind Mojitos

Photo credit: Sascha PaladinoSecret supper table​"It started out as a tamarind mojito," explains Apryl Lundsten. "But tamarind makes kind of a heavy juice, like apple." Prototypes were mixed, found wanting, and discarded. Minutes before people arrived, the final mix came together. It incorpora ... More >>

Il Grano's Tomato Wednesdays A Recipe for Heirloom Tomato Gazpacho

Every Wednesday during summertime's peak tomato season, Il Grano chef-owner Salvatore Marino puts on a show, constructing a menu built entirely around the tomato. These are not your average tomatoes, or even ones he brings back from the nearby farmers market, but tomatoes Marino grows himself and pi ... More >>

La Española's Paella Saturday: A Family Meal for Seventy

La Española MeatsHow to feed a crowd​Every Saturday, the Spanish import shop La Española Meats serves paella for lunch on their outdoor patio. A lot of it. Juana Faraone, whose son-in-law Alex Motamedi manages the shop and the charcuterie factory attached to it, makes enough paella to feed ... More >>

Tinto Tapas España Flamenco Show: Now You Can Leave Your Castanets At Home

Barbara HansenTinto Tapas​Leave your castanets at home tonight, and head to Tinto Tapas España for its first flamenco show. Previously the West Hollywood Spanish tapas restaurant has had recorded flamenco music, but starting tonight a professional will do the clicking during the two dinner sh ... More >>

The Unmassacred Churro

Fried-dough dessert is best at its plainest

Ludo Is Bringing Sexy and LudoBites Back to Breadbar

The world of cooking and chefs always ebbs and flows in Los Angeles. Days after Chef de Cuisine Craig Strong announced his May 20 departure from The Dining Room at The Langham Huntington, another local fave reappears on the scene. The highly celebrated and sorely missed LudoBites series will be back ... More >>

Where to Eat: Pre-Passover Dinner at La Loggia

Spring holidays are afoot, and restaurants are ready and willing to help out people who don't want to cook and clean up at home. In advance of Passover, the Let My People Eat! gathering at La Loggia Ristorante is "a Pre-Passover Gathering of Song, Spirit & Food for Thought" on Sunday afternoon, Apri ... More >>

Rivera, John Sedlar’s return to the kitchen

Tequila sunrise

Best Flamenco Dinner: Cafe Sevilla

A Choreographic Feast Awaits in the O.C.

Buffet dancing

Fideua: The Poor Man's Paella

The Spanish staple with a Catalan accent

Three Drunken Goats and the Reign of Spain

More tapas and wine, please

Jamón, Jamón

Finding happiness in a slice of Ibérico ham at Bar Pintxo

Finding Happiness in a Slice of Ibérico Ham at Bar Pintxo

Jamón, jamón

Bar Wares

Yatai Asian Tapas Bar

Orris Takes Root

Ask Mr. Gold

Cooking 101

For the culinary hipsters in all of us

Ask Mr. Gold

Take Two

The Small Plate

How the little things make a meal

Dine and Dish

The tapas of Cobras & Matadors

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