Susan Feniger

Meatless Mondays: Maximiliano Chef Andre Guerrero A Recipe for Lemon Rapini Linguine

Andre Guerrero has covered enough mileage at restaurants across Los Angeles that your immediate association of the chef is it's own a litmus test for Angelenos. Millennials will recognize The Oinkster; Gen X-ers might recall Duet or Linq; and Baby Boomers will likely associate him with Café Le Mond ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Homestyle Taiwanese at Bean Sprouts Restaurant in Arcadia

Taiwanese cuisine has gained recognition for its street food, night-market eats and even beef noodle soup, but what might be overlooked is the accessibility of vegetarian fare throughout the island. A Jan. 13, 2011, article published in CommonWealth Magazine reported that flexible vegetarianism beco ... More >>

22 Mother's Day Food Drink Specials (Bottomless Mimosas! Cupcakes! Tiaras!!)

Mother's Day is this coming Sunday, and if you haven't gotten that one figured out yet, maybe it's time to start planning. Depending on your age and demographic, a crayoned card could work, or maybe your kid's card and a stiff drink. If you want something a bit more professional, turn the page for a ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Sotto Chefs Zach Pollack and Steve Samson A Chickpea Panelle Recipe

The sensibility of Zach Pollack and Steve Samson's Pico-Robertson restaurant Sotto is clearly laid out on their menu. Take the appetizer of chickpea panelle, a traditional Sicilian street food, that's been available at the southern Italian restaurant since it was opened in 2011. "They're basically ... More >>

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Brunch Class, Bar Crawl, Coffee Talk Wine Tour

Brunch Cooking Class Learn to cook a Mexican-inspired brunch from Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger. The chefs will demonstrate how to make Border Bloody Maria; guava empanada; heirloom bean and bacon tostada; Peruvian shrimp and grits; and La Bomba rice pudding. WHAT: Brunch Cooking Class WHEN: ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken: The Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, Prop 37 a New Chef at Border Grill

Mary Sue Milliken, as always, is in the midst of a zillion things. The food activist, TV personality and chef-owner with Susan Feniger of Border Grill has been a vocal advocate of passing Proposition 37, the ballot initiative that would make the labeling of GMO products law in California. Milliken ... More >>

Top Chef Masters Recap: Art Smith Teppanyak-ity-yaks

Who says a Quickfire has to involve fire at all? On last night's episode of Top Chef Masters, raw was the name of the game for the chefs, who found themselves surrounding a massive ice sculpture adorned with seafood they had to serve up sans heat for a chance at immunity. And as is appropriate for ... More >>

10 Best Tamales in Los Angeles

At L.A.'s Mexican restaurants, the classic combination plate -- you know, the #5 or the "Macho Combo" or the "Pancho Villa Platter" that serves up a burrito, taco, tamale and chile relleno topped with yellow cheese along with refried beans, rice and flour tortillas -- tends to be ridiculed in this e ... More >>

Q & A with Andre Guerrero: Food Neighborhoods, Closet Pastry Chefs Ramen Dreams

Andre Guerrero can't imagine living anywhere other than Los Angeles. Save for his earliest years in the Philippines and a couple spent in San Francisco when his family initially moved to the United States, Guerrero has essentially been a lifelong L.A. resident. Over the course of a 30-plus-year ca ... More >>

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Rick Bayless at Red O, Tequila Dinner, Rabbit Dinner, Mole Tour, Salsa 101 Design-n-Dim Sum Bike Tour

Rick Bayless at Red O On the occasion of Red O's second anniversary, chef Rick Bayless stops by during Street Food Social Hour to mingle and sign his latest cookbook, Fiesta at Rick's. Then he's in the kitchen during dinner, offering the strawberry shortcake gratis with each meal. WHAT: Rick Bayless ... More >>

Q & A With Joel Stein: The "Intolerable Foodie" on Organics, Foodie Culture Man Food

Readers of Joel Stein's column in Time Magazine may remember when Stein hobnobbed with the super-rich over bottles of wine valued more than $5,000 each. The night he sampled dishes in the Alinea kitchen inspired by Escoffier's 1903 cookbook. Or the time he gobbled up KFC's Double Down sandwich, made ... More >>

Q & A with Gustavo Arellano: Taco USA, Mexican Authenticity Food Writing

You might suspect Gustavo Arellano, the brain and wit behind the popular syndicated and OC Weekly column ¡Ask a Mexican!, as one of those Mexican food sticklers who bristles at ideas of yellow nacho cheese, the chimichonga, the chicken fajita pita, enchilada combination plates and Taco Bell's 50th ... More >>

Q & A With Suzanne Goin: Chefs Move to Schools Fundraiser, Knocking on Ma Maison's Door Obama's Secret Service Detail

When you cross the beautiful threshold of Lucques, Suzanne Goin's Melrose Avenue restaurant, her first -- of now many, including A.O.C., Tavern and the recently opened The Larder at Maple Drive -- you are at once reminded of how profoundly relevant both that restaurant and, more importantly, the che ... More >>

5 Awesome Kickstarter Projects in L.A. Right Now

So far, no signs of the apocalypse for the startup-company-for-startups kickstarter.com, a website successfully proving that frugal, unemployed Americans do care about things enough to donate a dollar to a dreamer. February brought about two million-dollar projects that amazingly surpassed their f ... More >>

307 Restaurants Participate in dineLA Fall 2011 Restaurant Week

Anne FishbeinSpicy chicken pops at Lukshon.​Ever wanted to try the Lukshon's squid stuffed with fermented ground pork or spaghetti at Scarpetta but can't afford it? dineLA, which returns for 12 days in early October, might be your chance. The restaurant promo returns October 2-7 and 9-14, and ... More >>

Aimee Bender's The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake: Cake Police, the Perfect Bowl of Soup Culinary ESP

​Award-winning writer, native Angeleno and USC creative writing teacher Aimee Bender's second novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, opens with 9-year-old central protagonist, Rose Edelstein, taking a bite of birthday cake that her mother has made from scratch and tasting... bottomless ... More >>

Passover Roundup: 8 Ways to Celebrate Pesach in a Restaurant

J. RitzTraditional Venetian sweet-and-sour Pesce in carpione at Angeli Caffe. ​ Los Angeles chefs and restaurants approach Passover with respect for tradition, while applying their own unconventional and unexpected touches. There will be plenty of matzo ball soup. And then there will be Thai-s ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

LAX Concession Aftermath: Alan Rothenberg Resigns From L.A. Airport Commission

Alan Rothenberg​Alan Rothenberg resigned today from the Los Angeles Airport Commission, in a move that should make it easier for the commission to award airport concession contracts.Rothenberg was the source of a conflict of interest that forced the commission to recuse itself on the first round o ... More >>

Q & A With Mary Sue Milliken, Part 2: The Transformation of Ciudad, Lifting the Tablecloths Some Thoughts on Food Trucks

Border GrillMary Sue Milliken ​In the first part of our interview with Mary Sue Milliken, the chef talked about her travels abroad (fish tacos in the surfing capital of Alaska, chasing dinner in Mongolia), which she somehow has had time to do while, with Susan Feniger, running not one but now ... More >>

Food Paparazzi Capture Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Sipping Bubbly & Promoting DineLA

Celia SoudryMob of photogs​ Tuesday morning, September 21st, Napa Valley Grille in Westwood Village promoted upcoming DineLA, a two-week event featuring over 300 restaurants, beginning October 3. The launch party and cook-off starred local politicians and chefs, including Mayor Antonio Villara ... More >>

Lazy Ox Does Cart For A Cause: See What You Missed At Lunch Today

N. GalutenThe Lazy Ox Cart For A Cause in Santa Monica​ The Cart For A Cause truck rolled into Santa Monica today, featuring the food of Lazy Ox Canteen chef Josef Centeno. It proclaims itself as "the nation's first philanthropic meal truck," helping to feed home-bound senior citizens by provi ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Fergus Henderson's Nose to Tail Cooking Class at Ciudad

This past Saturday, celebrated English chef Fergus Henderson (St. John Restaurant, The Whole Beast: Nose to Tail Eating) gave a cooking class with Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken at their restaurant Ciudad. Since most of us are not, as Milliken is, old friends of Henderson's, or local celebrated ... More >>

Our Favorite Happy Hours

50 deal-driven places to get you and your wallet feeling a whole lot better

Top Chef Masters Recap: Cheese, Crying and Marcus Samuelsson

Bravo TVEpisode 2 of Top Chef Masters​ Episode 2 of Top Chef Masters kicked off last night, and while there were no L.A. chefs represented in this episode, the show does take place in L.A., so we got to enjoy a lot of B-roll shots of Union Station. This week's chefs were Marcus Samuelsson (R ... More >>

Top 10 Happy Hours: Penny Pinching Drinking

High on the list of traditional activities during economic hard times has always been watching movies--and hitting the bars. This town is, happily, very good for both. But it's really no fun to toast the movements of the Dow with a $15 martini, so save a penny at one of Los Angeles' many watering ho ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

Chefs Who Tweet: From Knives to Pacojets to iPhones

It used to be that chefs needed mastery of culinary techniques, dedication, and a great work ethic to become successful. But now there's another requirement: social media skills. As the restaurant scene evolves, chefs are discovering that the dining public requires more than culinary technique and g ... More >>

Food's Big Night Out: Not Such a Big Night for Los Angeles at the James Beard Awards

Jessica RitzThe scene at Avery Fisher Hall, with Ted Allen in the mix. The James Beard Foundation Awards is the Big Night Out for an industry that's all about nights out. Cooks, writers, restaurateurs, sommeliers, and others in the service of making great food and interpreting it for a hungry public ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Perry Farrell and Macy Gray Surprise at L.A. Weekly's L.A. Weekend, Plus We Get Krafty at the Grilled Cheese Invitational

Other than the term "swine flu," we learned several very important things over the weekend: Bea Arthur (RIP) made a damn good leg of roast lamb, there is definitely a limit to how much grilled cheese one can consume, and that the Belvedere vodka served at our L.A. Weekend festival -- yeah, that stuf ... More >>

Mastering the Art of Julia: Mary Sue Milliken Hears a Thump

Sony PicturesChild in time: Streep as Julia This summer, Meryl Streep will appear as the food world's warbly-voiced icon Julia Child in Nora Ephron's Julie & Julia. The movie is based on Child's autobiography and Julie Powell's Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen, in which ... More >>

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Work in Progress

One architect’s never-ending search for the well-lived home and life . . . in which Josh Schweitzer explains why you should tear down your house

Dinner and Drinks Downtown

Ciudad, the Pan-Latin downtown outpost of Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, may be all things to all people, but especially to all people whose pleasures include bending an elbow every now and then.

Downtown L.A.

Private Parties

Santa Monica

Dinner At Eight

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Pan-Latin

Where to Eat Now

Winter Restaurants 2002

Part 3

Puck’s Lament

When Spago’s celebrity chef chastised the media for ignoring the state of fine dining, he struck a chord with this critic

Screen Test

Seven months ago, the American Cinematheque triumphantly completed its renovation of Hollywood's Egyptian Theater. Now the organization is $2 million in debt. Can it survive?