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Susan Feniger

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Top 5 Weekend Food Events: St. Patty's Day Cooking Class, LQ@SK, Downward Dining, Free Food & Art, Gourmet Sandwiches

    Pop-Up Art Gallery Free Food & Cocktails Westwood's Palomar Hotel is displaying artwork from Palo Klein Uber, Chris Trueman and Alison Rash for one night only. Free appetizers from Blvd 16 restaurant will be passed around the room, along with cocktails and wine. WHEN: March 15, 5-7 p.m. WHERE: Pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Wendy Doulton's The Headhuntress and Carrie McCully's Chef Hunter: Is Getting a Real Job Reality TV's New Fantasy?

    Via NBCUniversalThe Headhuntress Wendy Doulton, right, coaches a job seeker.​I watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills every week. I watch New York and Orange County, too. (Though we all agree DC was whack, right?) I watch these shows partly for the ability to laugh at the dippy one-liners ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Street: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Border Grill: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

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

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The restaurant occupies one of the best spots in Little Tokyo, right next to the perpetually megacrowded ramen shop Daikokuya, and is as bright and modern as its blaring 1970s rock is not -- I'm no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 20, 2011

    Foodies 4 Less

    "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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    December 16, 2010

    25 Years of Border Grill

    Revamped Ciudad carries on fine tradition

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    September 9, 2010

    Are Celebrity Chefs Good for Food?

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2010

    ATTENTION FOOD TRUCKERS!

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Fergus Henderson To Give Cooking Class at Ciudad

    Julian Andrews/The AgeFergus Henderson goes whole hog at Ciudad​English chef Fergus Henderson of St. John Restaurant is coming to Los Angeles. While he's not opening a restaurant (much as we'd love to hear that he was), he will be coming to downtown restaurant Ciudad on May 15th to offer an ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    September 10, 2009

    Street Cred

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

  • Eat+Drink

    August 27, 2009

    Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

    Between a tweet and a truck

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    The Raw, the Cooked and Everything in Between: Taste of the Nation

    The raw and the cooked--and everything in between--were showcased at Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation fundraiser event in Culver City on Sunday. Many of the participating local chefs were big on crudo, while others preferred carbonizing their protein. The sheer number of chefs and food busin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    April 2, 2009

    Back on the Street: Susan Feniger's World Cuisine

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

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    Another Street View -- A Very Corny New Favorite Dish

    Oh, Vietnamese corn, with your fresh yellow kernels, wok-cooked with spring onions and glazed bits of pork belly! Is there anything lovelier than you on the menu at Susan Feniger's Street? I mean, besides the Egyptian kushary (spiced rice, lentils and tiny nuggets nestled alongside long-cooked colla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 6, 2008

    Ciudad: The Great Leap Backward

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

  • Eat+Drink

    May 19, 2005

    Ask Mr. Gold

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

  • Eat+Drink

    March 31, 2005

    Ceviche

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

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