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5 Best Happy Hours for Craft Beer

For many bars, happy hour means rock-bottom prices for stiff well drinks that could peel paint off the walls. But plastic-bottle vodka isn't for everyone. Besides, any two-for-one deal on Kentucky Gentleman is likely to leave you stuck calling a cab. Instead, take advantage of beer-focused happy hou ... More >>

Your 3,000 Calorie Dinner: Group Names Highest Calorie Chain Restaurant Meals

The Center For Science In The Public Interest has named it's "Xtreme Eating 2013" winners, if winner is an accurate word for a business you're publicly shaming for promoting obesity. Each year, the group focuses on the most calorific dishes served in America's chain restaurants, as part of its push ... More >>

Go Miz Yourself

Now Out: Zagat's 2013 Los Angeles Restaurant Guide

In case you missed the arrival of the distinctive rectangular maroon book in your mailbox, you should probably know that the 2013 edition of Zagat's Los Angeles restaurant guide is out. Noteworthy for many reasons, not least of which because Michelin no longer publishes in Los Angeles. So what's n ... More >>

8 Craft Beer Bars in the San Fernando Valley Happy Hour Specials

The glorious San Fernando Valley. Spatially vast, heavily populated, and wildly lacking in proper places to drink. Or so we thought. Today, it's time to put your ignorance to bed and minimize the attitude long enough to see the truth -- that from Burbank to Agoura Hills you can always find a decent ... More >>

Bon Iver - The Shrine Auditorium - 9-19-11

Timothy NorrisBon Iver​Bon Iver and Other Lives The Shrine Auditorium September 19, 2011 Better than... Monday Night Football Last night around 8pm most of the crowd in the Shrine Auditorium was under the crystal chandeliers in the lobby fighting for a drink and trying to forget that Monday ... More >>

Xtreme Eating Awards Announced: Top 8 Worst Things To Eat

Center for Science in the Public InterestThe Cheesecake Factory Farmhouse Cheeseburger​ This year's winners of the Xtreme Eating Awards have been named, just in time for us all to continue massively overeating. The so-called "dishonorees," as if we needed more clues as to the point of this, we ... More >>

Your July Sugar Rush: Free Slurpees, Lollipops and Dessert A Slurpee Recipe

Cheesecake Factory's newest Hershey's flavor & free 7-Eleven slurpees​ Café patios are jammed at mid-day, beach parking lots are more overcrowded than usual, and neighborhood teens are breaking into your pool at midnight. If you're reading this during "normal" business hours, you're most like ... More >>

Over The Weekend: Best Coast, Cops and the Cheesecake Factory at Make Music Pasadena

Sam BlochBest Coast, Assembled Multitudes​ STORY BY SAM BLOCH At the dawn of the Napster age, sociologist Tia DeMora wrote eloquently of the relationship between commerce and pop music. "Consumption behavior can be understood as a kind of dance," she wrote. And in a retail environment, it's ... More >>

Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.

Ask Mr. Gold: Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: What's your favorite fake restaurant in Los Angeles? (However you feel like defining it.) --David Chow (via Facebook)

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits the Olive Garden

Anne Fishbeinglass of wine menu at The Olive Garden​ No, this was not an April Fool's joke. Well, it was, but it was a prank that didn't quite turn out the way the Weekly's estimable reviewer planned. Thus in this week's Counter Intelligence column, Jonathan Gold visits not the latest Sichua ... More >>

LA Session Drummer to the Stars Will Be Your Personal Manbitch If You Buy $75K Version of His Album

​Everybody has a price. Josh Freese, studio drummer to the stars (Weezer, Devo, Nine Inch Nails, Guns N Roses) is up to his old tricks with the upcoming announcement of his plans for his latest solo album, Since 1972. He listed his album for sale in packages ranging from $7 for a straightf ... More >>

Best Shaved Ice: Class 302

R. Brown​If having a fellow food blogger diss your favorite dessert as boorish ain't fighting words, they at least are eating ones. So when a certain blogger read our Squid Ink story on Korean patbingsu and commented that the Taiwanese shaved snow dish baobing was so far superior, we suddenly ... More >>

Another One Down in Old Town: Dish Bistro & Bar Closes

​Much to the chagrin of us locals, Old Town Pasadena continues to be a gamble for independently owned restaurants, something we desperately need. You'd think with all of the high-end and trendy stores now lining Colorado Boulevard, at least some shoppers would want -- dare we say demand -- a ... More >>

Intelligentsia Pasadena Update: Gnocchi, But No More Lasagna Cupcakes

L. Balla​ When Intelligentsia opened in Pasadena last year, coffee geeks and foodies rejoiced: Not only could you finally get a decent macchiato in Old Town, but also charcuterie, lasagna cupcakes and Matthew Kaner-selected wines to boot. Now, six months later, almost all of that is still tru ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 8/9-8/13

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The residual coffee in the air is worth an aerosolized shot, shot and a half, easy."

America's 15 Favorite Chain Restaurants: We ♥ The Cheesecake Factory

Cheesecake FactoryLos Angeles Cheesecake Factory locations​ Want to know how America really eats? I guess track where NBA players go after a game. Nation's Restaurant News recently published a list of our 15 favorite casual and family restaurant chains, and The Cheesecake Factory, reportedly a ... More >>

Intelligentsia Coffeehouse Opens in Pasadena

A. ScattergoodIntelligentsia Pasadena​ As of 10 a.m. this morning, Old Town shoppers, itinerant off-duty baristas, embedded Pasadena food writers and refugees from the Rose Bowl now have a place to order an excellent macchiato on Colorado Boulevard. Intelligentsia Coffee, Doug Zell's Chicago-b ... More >>

CSPI Releases Its Annual List Of The Fattiest Foods In America

KFCThis did not make the list​Some restaurants, it seems, are trying their best to kill you as quickly as possible. While we knew that most dishes at places like The Cheesecake Factory and Outback Steakhouse were incredibly unhealthy, we still didn't know which ones were the absolute worst of ... More >>

This Is Why We're Fat: Last Supper Would Have Left Us Hungry

People have been saying for quite time that our portion sizes have been increasing. Now, thanks to a study at (Sweet 16-bound) Cornell, and paintings of the the last known meal Jesus ever ate, we might just have the proof. Cornell's Brian Wasnik pored over 52 different paintings of The Last Supper, ... More >>

Meet Your NBA Champion Foodie: Pau Gasol Talks El Bulli, Bazaar, Kobe and More

You probably already know him as the second best player on the defending NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers. But what you probably don't know (unless you read our September interview with Lakers trainer Gary Vitti) is that he's also the team's resident foodie. He is, after all, from Spain. Squid Ink ca ... More >>

If Kobe is Hungry, He Can Just Yell for the Ball Boy

The world of professional athletics is a lot less glamorous when you aren't the professional athlete. A recent article from HoopsWorld looked into one such thankless sports job, the NBA ball boy, and discovered that it's not just about handling basketballs, but also ridiculous player food requests. ... More >>

Choza Mama

Secret Foodie: An Interview with Christian Lander, Author of Stuff White People Like

There are foodies hiding everywhere. One of them is Culver City resident Christian Lander, creator of the blog mega-hit Stuff White People Like, author of the New York Times best seller of the same name, and host of PC Hook-up with Christian Lander. He recently took the time to chat with us about hi ... More >>

On the Waterbus

Around and around she goes

Last Night's #2 NBA Draft Pick Tweets on Beverly Hills Italian

As Henry Abbot, the editor of the ESPN basketball blog Truehoop often points out, NBA players are known to have pretty bad taste in food (Casablanca on St. Valentine's Day

Play those heartstrings again, Sam

Tirupathi Bhimas Gets Regional

Living dals

Where To Eat Now

Revenants

When antiheroes come home to roost

Baa to the Bone

Self Serve

Chosun Galbi, a pleasant restaurant with the patio-side glamour of a Beverly Hills garden party.

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 2

From The Hungry Cat to Providence

Theater in Exile

What does it mean when we send our theater companies packing?

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Letters

Harvest of Pain

The long, hard journey from Central Valley seed to caesar salad

The Wedding Planner?

More Is More

Ambitious … Pretentious … but Pretty Good Cobbler

Restaurant Halie tries hard

The Pasadena Conundrum

Can Bizou succeed where others have failed?

Scenes From My Life in Porn

Oodles of Noodles and More

A Guide to Our Advertisers, part two

Edited by Lovell Estell III