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Steve Samson

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    May 2, 2012

    Watch This Now: The Tasting Kitchen's Casey Lane Discusses 'Working Ripe'

    When we here at Squid Ink use the term "working ripe" it usually refers to those times when we head into the office after a particularly moist gym workout, but for Casey Lane, head chef at Venice's Tasting Kitchen (as well as the upcoming Parish and Itri), the term has another meaning altogether. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Sotto's One Year Anniversary Party: Discounted Drinks Free Bar Bites

    Before they opened Sotto last year, Steve Samson and Zach Pollack went direct to Naples and hauled in all the raw materials to build a proper pizza oven -- that would be 15,000 pounds worth of cement, bricks and Vesuvian sand. So heavy were these building blocks that the delivery truck nearly topple ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Food GPS' Lamb Showdown: In Which Walter Manzke, Steve Samson & Zach Pollack Cook You a Lamb Dinner

    If you love lamb more than, well, other very tasty farm animals, then you probably have someplace to be on Monday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. And no, we do not mean volunteering your services to the folks at Windrose Farm, although that's not a bad idea. Food GPS is presenting the first (hopefully of man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

    Clean Plates Los Angeles 2012: Attempts Healthy L.A. Dining Guide

    Clean Plates Los Angeles 2012: A Guide to the Healthiest Tastiest and Most Sustainable Restaurants for Vegetarians and Carnivores, released last week by New York City-based "health coach" Jared Koch, is more than another list of restaurant recommendations. First, the book's 52-page "Design Your Ow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Giant Rabbits, Making Cider in Burgundy, Holiday Roasts The Glutton in Winter

    Anne FishbeinSotto chefs Steve Samson and Zach Pollack​Forbes: 30 mover-and-shakers under 30 in the food and wine industry. (Congrats Jordan Kahn and Zach Pollack.) The Salt, NPR's Food Blog: Why Are We More Hungry In The Winter? Los Angeles Magazine: This year's top 10 restaurants in L.A. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Thanksgiving Eve Bourbon, Wild Gourmet Food, Venison Fair, 4 Chefs in One, Holiday Beer Class

    Thanksgiving Eve Bash Steady your nerves for a day of family togetherness with a pre-Thanksgiving shindig featuring a traditional Corn Hole Toss and $6 cups of a seasonal punch made with Wild Turkey. ($1 from each glass will be donated to a local shelter.) WHEN: Nov. 23 WHERE: Seven Grand COST: Free ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Sotto: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    Thanksgiving Eve Bash Steady your nerves for a day of family togetherness with a pre-Thanksgiving shindig featuring a traditional Corn Hole Toss and $6 cups of a seasonal punch made with Wild Turkey. ($1 from each glass will be donated to a local shelter.) WHEN: Nov. 23 WHERE: Seven Grand COST: Free ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    October 27, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Sotto

    Thanksgiving Eve Bash Steady your nerves for a day of family togetherness with a pre-Thanksgiving shindig featuring a traditional Corn Hole Toss and $6 cups of a seasonal punch made with Wild Turkey. ($1 from each glass will be donated to a local shelter.) WHEN: Nov. 23 WHERE: Seven Grand COST: Free ... 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

    April 22, 2011

    L.A.'s Top 10 Sunday Suppers Tender Greens Kicks Off Sunday Beer Garden

    Photos by Anne FishbeinMeals from Lucques (left), Church & State (middle) and Palate (right).​This weekend, Tender Greens in Hollywood will kick off its first Sunday beer garden, a monthly event with all-you-can-eat roasted meat and all-you-can-drink craft beer for a flat fee of $35. (We had a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/18-4/22

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As Sotto, the new Italian restaurant from Steve Samson and Zack Pollack, who ran David Meyer's Pizza Ortica at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, somebody sprung to fix up the basement, because it is ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 21, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Sotto

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As Sotto, the new Italian restaurant from Steve Samson and Zack Pollack, who ran David Meyer's Pizza Ortica at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, somebody sprung to fix up the basement, because it is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    First Bite: Sotto, or The Happiness of Abattoir Jocks

    F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ When it housed Test Kitchen, the dim, low-ceilinged restaurant space below the old Orlando-Orsini had a kind of cheerful rec-room vibe, like a pop-up jazz club where the artists just happen to wield knives instead of saxophones. As Sotto, the new Italian restaurant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Update: Sotto's Neapolitan Pizza Oven Ready to Burn

    Last week we took a peek into Sotto's Neapolitan pizza oven, which was imported brick by brick from Naples and in the middle of being hand-built by third-generation oven-builder Stefano Ferrara. (It's one of less than 10 hand-built Ferrara ovens in the United States.) Ferrara finished the oven an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    A Peek Into Sotto's Hand-Built Neapolitan Pizza Oven; Will Soft-Open Feb. 25

    Great pizza begins with a great oven, which is why Steve Samson and Zach Pollack of Sotto, the Italian restaurant opening in the bottom floor of the Test Kitchen space, went straight to Naples for theirs, importing 15,000 pounds of materials and even the oven designer himself. It's a massive inves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Test Kitchen's Final Night: Alums Come Together To Feed You For A Good Cause

    Flickr/Muy Yum​ Monday, December 13th, may be Test Kitchen's final dinner service, but Bill Chait and Brian Saltsburg's restaurant experiment is going out with a big-time culinary (and charitable) bang. For $150/person, Test Kitchen and non-profits Share Our Strength and Gettlove, are bringin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Sotto & Picca Opening in Test Kitchen Space

    As Test Kitchen, LA's experiment in musical chefs, takes its victory lap and bids farewell, the concept is already being transformed into something less temporal featuring two (semi-)permanent restaurants and a bar. In late January, Steve Samson and Zach Pollack will open Sotto, their Italian res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Breadbar Hatchi Series Continues with Makoto Okuwa

    Sashi Sushi Sake LoungeChef Makoto Okuwa​ Makoto Okuwa is a busy man these days. Not only is he executive chef at Manhattan Beach's Sashi Sushi Sake Lounge, he recently appeared as a challenger on Food Network's Iron Chef America. Now he's headed north, bringing his Power of Miso menu to B ... More >>

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