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Top 3 Events: Sushi With the Chef, Korean BBQ Big Daddy's Summer BBQ

Sushi With the Chef Eric Lechasseur will offer a prix-fixe vegetarian menu that includes a vegetarian sushi roll, salad and beverage for one night only at Seed Kitchen. The chef has studied in Japan and France in addition to completing a program in Canada. The menu shows a Japanese influence with di ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Susan Feniger A Burmese Gin Thoke Melon Salad Recipe

A three-week trip to an ashram in the Indian town of Ahmednagar in 1981 shifted Susan Feniger's (Street, Top Chef Masters, etc.) aesthetic and approach as a chef. Before then, her professional purview was almost exclusively located within traditional French restaurants on the East coast to the West, ... More >>

9 Great Latkes in Los Angeles

Sure, there's fun to be had cooking your own deep fried holiday foods. But sustaining this ritual for a celebration that spans eight nights? Not so appealing. Most households tend to max out at one, maybe two, latke frying sessions, since ventilation methods can only be so effective. And besides, no ... More >>

5 Places In Los Angeles To Observe Meatless Monday

You may have heard that a few weeks back, the LA City Council voted unanimously to adopt "Meatless Monday," a nation-wide campaign to urge people to give up meat one day a week. What does this mean, exactly? Well, thankfully, as foxnews.com put it, "Neither city officials nor law enforcement will be ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Events: Fried Chicken Fest, Pop-Up Picnic Dinner, L.A. Epicurean Fest Susan Feniger Street Food Book Signing

L.A. Fried Chicken Fest A slate of eight local chefs -- including Josef Centeno (Baco Mercat), David LeFevre (Manhattan Beach Post), and Bryant Ng (the Spice Table) -- will serve their own twists on some crispy fried chicken, as well as bottomless Knob Creek whiskey and El Tesoro tequila cocktail pu ... More >>

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 >>

Cookbook Of The Week: Susan Feniger's Street Food, Now In Hardcover Form Her Spicy Yuzu Mayonnaise Recipe

The subtitle to Susan Feniger's Street Food -- Irresistibly Crispy, Creamy, Crunchy, Spicy, Sticky, Sweet Recipes -- could just as well be a Wikipedia entry on the woman who, as we are reminded on the book jacket flap, is behind Street, co-founder of Border Grill, one of the original Food Network pe ... More >>

Your 4th of July Dining Deal Round-Up: Cobbler, Korean BBQ Sliders Beer Pong

Beer Belly's Backyard Boogie: The Filipino grillmasters at the The Park's Finest are joining forces with Beer Belly to host their 2nd annual "Backyard Boogie," an afternoon stocked with plenty of BBQ and beer. From 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., you can enjoy smoky pulled pork, hot links, coconut beef, bibingka ... 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 >>

Tax Day Deals to Mark the Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat

It's Tax Day, one of a few days this Election Year that you'll likely be remotely interested in tearing apart the finer parts of the so-called Buffett Tax and seeing how it would have directly affected you, or not. At least, that interest will hold for a few seconds, until you've stared at your sad ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Chamber Orchestra with Susan Feniger, Beer Festival, Venice Meet, The Coop Nose to Tail Lamb at Sotto

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Westside Connections With Susan Feniger Westside Connections, a series that explores the relationship between music and other arts, is focusing on food. For this concert, pieces include works by Saint-Saens and Ravel, and chef Susan Feniger of Border Grill and Street w ... More >>

Gold Standard 2012: Photo Slideshow

The temperature climbed into the 80s, but that didn't diminish the enthusiasm of about 1,800 people gathered at the rooftop parking lot of the Peterson Auto Museum last Sunday for Gold Standard: the L.A. Weekly's food-sampling bonanza featuring 40 restaurants picked by Jonathan Gold. Even Bludso's B ... More >>

Menu for CITY Night at Border Grill Announced

Earlier this week we told you about CITY Night at Border Grill -- a special event at which Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken will indulge the nostalgia of their 1980s glory days by serving a menu inspired by their first restaurant, City Cafe and its subsequent incarnation, CITY. Today, the menu wa ... More >>

Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken on Upcoming CITY Night at Border Grill

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, young, wild and free.​With their success at Border Grill and beyond, it's difficult to think of chefs and restaurateurs Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger as ever being scrappy young things, just starting out, with a kitchen so tiny it spilled over into th ... More >>

Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken To Be Subjects of ABC Sitcom

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger in their wilder days.​Sclemeel, schlemazel, hazenfeffer incorporated... The most exciting food TV news we've heard lately came from our sister paper OC Weekly, which reports that Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken -- longtime friends, chefs and owners of B ... More >>

Chef Hunter at Border Grill: Susan Feniger, Mary Sue Milliken and Winner Monique King Weigh In

Photo courtesy of Border GrillSusan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken​Job interviews are stressful enough, but add TV cameras, a head-to-head competition and the watchful eyes of two of the most successful people in your field evaluating your every move, and you've got Chef Hunter, the palm-sweate ... More >>

Street: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Border Grill: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Battle Sangria: Rick Bayless vs. Susan Feniger & Mary Sue Milliken a Recipe from the Winner

C. LeVasserJamaica sangria by Rick Bayless​Some of us have been going out a lot less these days. But rather than unnecessarily spending twenty dollars on a rare gueuze at Father's Office, we've been throwing our money at things like Scharffen Berger chocolate, or imported speck from Alto-Adige ... More >>

Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken Go to OC, Show Real Housewives that Mexican Food is for More Than Just Pool Parties

bravotv.comSusan Feniger menu planning with Micah and Peggy Tanous.​Did you see Mary Sue Milliken win the Elimination Challenge on Top Chef Masters Wednesday night? Of course you did. But did you also happen to see her and Susan Feniger on the last two episodes of The Real Housewives of Orange ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/2-5/6

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "This is the South. You have to have liquor. This is not California." Q & A With Amber Huffman: Bourbon Blunders, Derby Cocktails Cooking For Jess Jackson At His Kentucky Racehorse Farm. "Can 79 ... More >>

LAX Concessions: SSP "Shocked" By Airport's Snub Of Celebrity Chefs

Not much to smile about: Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger were snubbed by LAX​These are tough times to be a celebrity chef. Last year, a star-studded group of L.A. chefs (including Nancy Silverton, Joaquim Splichal, Mary Sue Milliken, and Susan Feniger) came very close to winning a spot at L.A. ... More >>

The 32nd Annual Planned Parenthood Food Fare

photo courtesy of Border GrillMary Sue Milliken, Susan Feniger and Julia Child​ This Thursday, March 10th, Planned Parenthood Los Angeles will hold their 32nd Annual Food Fare at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. One of the longest-running food events in L.A., the event has come a long way si ... More >>

Last Night: 2011 Gold Standard [Photos]

"I can't hold my stomach in anymore," we heard someone, a man, exclaim as he rested between bites at yesterday afternoon's Gold Standard. The third annual tasting event, held once again at Petersen Auto Museum, featured dozens of local restaurants with dishes on offer ranging from the baroque wi ... More >>

Foodies 4 Less

First Bite: 25 Years of Border Grill, or a Revamped Ciudad

Jonagold apple, portions removed​Is it possible that the Border Grill has been open a full 25 years? It must -- the anniversary party was this week. And is it possible that owners Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, who worked the marriage of Mexican cuisine and New American grill cooking a f ... More >>

Thanksgiving Dining: 6 Holiday Dishes With A Global Spin

Cham Korean Bistro​ You eat kimchi pizza, Filipino adobo burritos and Japanese rice patty burgers. So when it comes to Thanksgiving, the most traditional of American food holidays, boring old stuffing won't do. Here are six Thanksgiving options that will make your globetrotting palate sing wi ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Mary Sue Milliken's Mexican Chopped Salad

Peter BarrettMexican chopped salad at Border Grill​ In our recent interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the Border Grill chef talked about all kinds of fun things, like stalking lamb in Mongolia and having a Hitchcock experience with raising pigeons in her back yard. She also discussed the Border ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Mary Sue Milliken's Tacos de Lengua

Peter Barretttacos de lengua ​ When we interviewed Mary Sue Milliken, chef-owner with her longtime business partner Susan Feniger of Border Grill, the second of which is now open in the former Ciudad space downtown, she talked about the fun she's been having chasing her food. Mongolian lamb, ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: Adventures In the Alaskan Surfing Capital, Chasing Boar in Mongolia Her Hitchcock Squab Experiment

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have been culinary fixtures in this town for decades, from their first restaurant, City Cafe, which opened in 1981, to their downtown flagship Ciudad, to the Westside's Border Grill to, inevitably, a food truck of the same name. Oh, and let's not forget the five c ... More >>

Milliken & Feniger Update: Ciudad Closing, Border Grill Opening

CiudadCiudad dining room​After twelve years, Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are closing their downtown restaurant Ciudad. But don't worry, the doors won't be shut for long: the chefs will be reopening the restaurant in October as a Border Grill. Their other Border Grill, more a casual can ... More >>

Are Celebrity Chefs Good for Food?

ATTENTION FOOD TRUCKERS!

Yesterday At Taste of the Nation: Photos Of Hunger-Fighting Food

Taste of the Nation Los Angeles had its annual event yesterday at the Culver City Media Park, and as usual, there was a lot of good food and drink. All ticket sales, as well as money received from charitable donations and the silent auction, went directly toward fighting childhood hunger. There wer ... More >>

TV Recap: Feniger, Armstrong on Top Chef Masters

Top Chef Masters premiered last night and featured two local chefs in Susan Feniger (Border Grill, Ciudad, Street) and Govind Armstrong (8 oz.), with the show itself taking place in our own fair city. The premise of the show is fairly simple: take six accomplished chefs from around the country, have ... More >>

There Will Be Belly: The 2nd Annual Gold Standard Food and Wine Event

If you happened to be looking for Octavio Becerra, Ludo Lefebvre, Leo Bulgarini or Susan Feniger yesterday, they were all at the Petersen Automotive Museum, and no, they weren't ogling over the Hot Wheels Hall of Fame. Ludo was busy churning cornichon sorbet out of his Pacojet to adorn cups of cold ... More >>

Happy National Margarita Day Two Border Grill Margarita Recipes

Border GrillBorder Grill Añejo Margarita​Today is National Margarita Day. Of course it's a ridiculous and completely fabricated holiday, probably invented by the makers of some brand of tequila or powdered margarita mix. But if you like margaritas, you should ignore that crass reality and jus ... More >>

Border Grill Rallies Support for LAX Opening Pink's Coming Soon to Tom Bradley International

Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger are rallying support from Border Grill enthusiasts for the opening of a third restaurant inside LAX. "Wouldn't it be great to have the delicious Mexican food of Border Grill at the Los Angeles International Airport? With a Border Margarita and a Carnitas Taco, sud ... More >>

Teach A Man to MAKE A Mojito, He'll Drink For A Lifetime: Caribbean Cooking Class at Ciudad

CiudadMojitos​Perhaps due to restaurant week, which runs until Friday, October 16, the benefit blitz has slowed, leaving you wondering how best to spend your money this weekend. That is what you're wondering, right? Of course, you could extend your dollars by taking advantage of the bargain ea ... More >>

Pork Cracker Jack by Susan Feniger: Fried Pig With Popcorn

At Allee Willis's party at Ghetto Gloss several weeks ago, Susan Feniger made a caramelly version of Cracker Jack with sunflower seeds, Boston baked bean candy, and salty pork. Pork. Pork. Pork. You'd bite into the stuff, taste the sweetness of peanut brittle, the carbohydrate crunch of the corn, an ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/6 - 9/11/2009

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "C'est banal!" Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on a recent Top Chef dish. "One bite and I'm done." The LAT's S. Irene Virbila on Boa in West Hollywood. "As at City, an evening at Street feels halfway between a soph ... More >>

Street Cred

At her new Hollywood restaurant, Susan Feniger puts the cart before the hors d’oeuvre

Street Music: Betty Bryant at Susan Feniger's Street

Maybe you've checked out Susan Feniger's Street, read Jonathan Gold's First Bite about it, you saw Inky's piece about Street TV. Maybe you've even checked out Street's playlists on iTunes. But besides the Malaysian Black Pepper Clams, there's another reason to visit Street, and her name is Betty B ... More >>

Newest Episode of Susan Feniger's Street Noise Released -- Web Videos Show Making of an LA Restaurant

There are many ways to publicize a new restaurant, but in this age of Top Chef and Hell's Kitchen, Susan Feniger has come up with a cool new way to let potential customers get a glimpse of her cooking style -- and the many headaches of opening a place from the ground up -- by starring her own we ... More >>

Back on the Street: Susan Feniger's World Cuisine

A virtual museum of street food, snacks and savories from every part of Asia

First Bite: Susan Feniger's Street

When it opened in the 1980s, City Restaurant felt a lot like the future of Los Angeles cuisine: a restaurant that absorbed the influences of both the local Asian communities and the exotic places to which a reasonably hip Angeleno might be expected to travel, and re-envisioned the flavors through th ... More >>

Ciudad: The Great Leap Backward

Every four years, Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken go back to the City