Suzanne Tracht

More Food Events: Chopped Viewing, Taco Night A Vegan Texas BBQ Class

Chopped Viewing with Brandon Boudet Chef Brandon Boudet of Little Dom's, Dominick's, Tom Bergin's Tavern, and 101 Coffee Shop participated as a contestant on the high-intensity Food Network show Chopped. Tonight is his viewing party at Tom Bergin's Tavern. The pub will be extending its normal happy ... More >>

Machneyuda Chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon Bring Israeli Cuisine Center Stage in L.A.

Check out Anne Fishbein's photo gallery of Assaf Granit and Uri Navon's Israeli dinner. On their first trip to Los Angeles, Israeli chefs Assaf Granit and Uri Navon wasted no time in getting to know some of this town's culinary habits. They shopped at the Santa Monica Farmers Market, partnered with ... More >>

Israel's 65th Independence Day Dinner with Suzanne Tracht and Machneyuda Chefs

In celebration of Israel's 65th Independence Day, Suzanne Tracht will open her kitchen to Assaf Granit and Uri Navon, chef-owners of Machneyda restaurant in Jerusalem, at Jar for a collaborative one-night dinner on Saturday, April 13.

Easter Sunday Food Drink Specials

For those who celebrate the holiday, Easter Sunday is a time to gather loved ones for brunch and, maybe, an afternoon egg hunt. If you're planning to host a celebration at home, there are purveyors and markets like Lindy & Grundy who offer a range of resources from traditional smoked hams and legs o ... More >>

Top 3 Weekend Events: Passover Cooking Class, 4-Course Dinner Seder at Jar

Passover Cooking Class Meal and a Spiel private cooking school founder Elana Horwich will teach a class on Passover seder classics inspired by her bubbie, or grandmother in Yiddish. The menu designed for the class: Moscato spice haroset, "Best Brisket Ever" with potatoes, matzo ball soup, and an oli ... More >>

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Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Peking Duck Day, Pan-Latin Food Experience, Butchery Class, Dine L.A. Bread-Making Class

National Peking Duck Day at WP24 Want a round of "Duck, Duck, Goose?" No, not the game but a meal of Peking-style roasted duckling, followed by a chocolate goose egg. It's on the books at Wolfgang Puck's Chinese-inspired WP24 in honor of National Peking Duck Day. WP24 carves and serves the duck tabl ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... 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 >>

Top 10 Los Angeles Chefs to Follow on Instagram

Sure, you can see the beautiful dishes that your favorite chefs spend hours making in real life. When, perhaps you go to their restaurants and actually eat their food. But since we often spend more time looking at pretty pictures of dinner than we do consuming it, the tech gods have given us Instagr ... More >>

Karen Hatfield Hosts 1st Annual "Pink Apron" Dinner with Mary Sue Milliken, Suzanne Tracht, Dakota Weiss, Nyesha Arrington Sherry Yard

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and to support The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, chef Karen Hatfield is hosting a one-night dinner at Hatfield's on Oc. 8 with help from five of L.A,'s best female chefs, including Suzanne Tracht (Jar), Mary Sue Milliken (Border Grill), Dakota W ... More >>

55: Duck Fried Rice at Jar

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 55: Duck Fried Rice at Jar. Walk through the heavy wooden doors at Jar, Suzanne Tracht's 11-year-old West Hollywood chophouse, and you'll probably feel like or ... More >>

Phil Rosenthal, Creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, on His Journey Through the World of Food

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Chowder Chowdown, Citrus Saver, Roasted Pig, All-Night Happy Hour, Foodie Chat

Chowder Chowdown Ten days. Six chowders. No rules. Celebrate National Soup Month at Gladstone's annual chowder fest. In addition to traditional New England and Manhattan chowders, chef Dean Grill has created four nouveau chowders including roasted corn and chicken, kale and andouille, butternut squa ... More >>

Upon The Closing of Angeli Caffe: A Love Story

Back in 2009, I was assigned by the LA Weekly to cover a wedding that was being held at Angeli Caffe. I can't remember how the story came to me but I've known Evan Kleiman for longer than either of us would like to see in print. Yet I don't see her very often. Over the years, she's become the friend ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/28-12/2

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "So there are big, drippy hamburgers, including an oversized In-N-Out-style creature named for Suzanne Tracht's daughter Ida; an herbed turkey burger named for Pressman; and a bacon-avocado-laced Nancy's Backyard Burger, which ... More >>

Short Order: The Late Amy Pressman's Burger Obsession Stays Alive

If you've been around the back of the Farmers Market lately, you've probably noticed an odd glass appendage, and the funk of charred meat, and a waxing throng whose average age seems at least 20 years younger than the one next door at Du-Par's, a patio you'd swear didn't exist last week, and a fligh ... More >>

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Chefs Feed: Your Latest Food App

So many apps, so much food, so little time. The latest fun food app is called Chefs Feed, which was released yesterday by Credible, Inc., and it's sort of like an aggregate of all those Bon Appétit back pages where your favorite chef told you what they liked to eat on their own time. The Los Angele ... More >>

So You Think You Can Eat

Cochon 555: The Heritage Pig Fest Comes to L.A.

Back in November, we sounded a gleeful "soooooooweeeee" when we learned that Los Angeles was confirmed as a date for the travelin' pig-palooza known as Cochon 555. For the uninitiated, Cochon 555 is a massive party suffused with the scent of molten pork, which we'll take over a shot of anything. ... 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 >>

Best Banana Cream Pie: The Apple Pan

N. GalutenThe Apple Pan's banana cream pie​A good piece of pie will often remind you of your childhood, or at the very least, give you a glimpse into a childhood that you wish you'd had. Apple pie tends to get a lot of credit in this arena, and despite an old, popular phrase, blueberry pie may ... More >>

A Round-Up of L.A.'s Pumpkin Dishes, Drinks & Desserts John Sedlar's Recipe for Pumpkin Mezcal

Christie BishopKay 'N Dave's Pumpkin Margarita​ When it comes to L.A. produce, the beginning of fall brings us a seemingly endless supply of heirloom tomatoes, peppers, pears and perhaps the most seasonal produce of all: the pumpkin. Considering Southern California's climate isn't conducive t ... More >>

New Top Chef Cookbook: Why To Think Twice Before Signing Up For That Reality TV Show

​The reality of reality television shows like Bravo's Top Chef is that if you're chosen as a contestant, you get to sign a big fat contract. You know, the kind of legalese that says something along the lines of the network gets to do pretty much anything it pleases. Including using you to prom ... More >>

Saban Free Clinic Hosts 13th Annual Extravaganza for the Senses Event

The Saban Free Clinic​ When you hear "free clinic," a luxury food and wine event might not be the first thing that comes to mind. But for thirteen years running, The Saban Free Clinic -- which provides free health care, dental and social services to the Los Angeles community -- has been host ... More >>

Q & A With Ben Ford: Snout-to-Tail Cooking, Recession Food Still Life with Parsley at Chez Panisse

Ben Ford's Culver City gastropub Ford's Filling Station has been open for about 4 1/2 years now, during which time the neighborhood has changed from a rundown outpost dominated by Sony Pictures and the ghosts of munchkins (the cast of the Wizard of Oz stayed at the old Culver Hotel during the movie' ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: Banana Cream Pie, Apple Pan vs. Jar

Certain foods feel nostalgic, whether they were a part of your childhood or not. You don't need to have grown up in the 50s to have a sense of comfort sitting in an Eisenhower-era roadside diner, drinking burnt coffee and eying a piece of cherry pie sitting under a glass covering on the counter. Pie ... More >>

Passover Planner: Restaurant Seders Around Town

Photo: J. RitzEvan Kleiman's matzo ball soup at Angeli.​ The two nights of Passover seder 5770 fall on Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30. Our local, trusty, sophisticated Passover mavens honor the broad Jewish culinary diaspora while hewing to some familiar traditions as well. Bottom lin ... More >>

Q & A With Suzanne Tracht, Part 2: The Jar Chef on the Importance of Keeping Things Simple, Heading to Abu Dhabi, and NOT Eating Dog

Yesterday we gave you the first part of our interview with Suzanne Tracht of Jar, who has her hands full opening not one but two new restaurants in L.A. this year. So what's her secret to successful multitasking? Easy: Do what you love. Turn the page for the second part of our interview, and check b ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Suzanne Tracht's Pot Roast

Jar's pot roast​Since Suzanne Tracht, opened Jar, her Los Angeles chop house, in 2001, there has been one recipe that epitomizes her approach to comfort food more, perhaps, than any other: the Jar pot roast. It has never been off the menu, even in L.A.'s blistering summers when pot roast, you' ... More >>

Q & A With Suzanne Tracht: The Jar Chef on Plans for Suzpree and LAX

Suzanne Tracht​Jar may stand for 'Just another restaurant', but in the eight years since it opened, Suzanne Tracht's modern chophouse has garnered much acclaim for its laidback setting and ludicrously good steaks and sides, not to mention its near-legendary pot roast (for the recipe, check bac ... More >>

Restaurant Recession Tally: 4,000 Fewer Restaurants Than A Year Ago; Fine Dining Hit Hardest

On Tuesday, the NPD Group, a Chicago-based market research company, released its spring 2009 report, an annual census of commercial restaurant locations in the United States compiled in the spring and fall each year, which showed a decline of 4,000 restaurants nationwide from the previous year. Whil ... More >>

Top Chef Masters, Episode 2: Suzanne Tracht Should be on your Desert Island

BravoSuzanne TrachtLA's own Suzanne Tracht (chef-owner of Jar, Tracht's) handily won last night's Top Chef Masters battle, serving up a potluck plate of uni risotto and wild boar to the creators of Lost with a calm professionalism that could have been mistaken for indifference. Just the right attitu ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Suzpree Sneak Peek: Char Sui Tacos and Oxtail Dumplings -- Advance Bites of Suzanne Tracht and Preech Narkthong's Evolving New Project Unveiled Tonight at Jar

Margy RochlinIn Development: Suzpree's eggplant saladEverytime Jar chef/owner Suzanne Tracht and her chef de cuisine Preech Narkthong visit Narkthong's hometown of Bangkok, Thailand, they return with ideas for new dishes, antique silk purses and fairly crazy-sounding tales of two massages a day and ... More >>

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