Tien Nguyen

4 Great Bars & Restaurants For Moms Who Don't Do Afternoon Tea

For all that our mothers do for us, we've designated just one day each year for them, which often amounts to a three-hour tea or brunch set that probably appeals more to the stereotype of mothers than anything else. It's easy to overlook the new normal of mother figures in a post-women's lib era tha ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

The Apocalypse Day Food Flowchart: Where to Go as the World Ends

If you're reading this, then the world hasn't ended. Yet, anyway. And so, even though NASA confidently released a helpful, if pre-emptive, video entitled, "Why the World Didn't End Yesterday," it still wouldn't hurt to borrow a bit from panicked Russians and have some sort of food-related contingenc ... More >>

5 Food-Related Things to Cross Off Your Bucket List Before Friday's Apocalypse

There's nothing quite like a drop dead deadline to inspire you to contemplate all the things you always wanted to eat in this city before it was too late. And so, with the apocalypse scheduled for sometime on Friday, we put together five food-related things to do before the Four Horsemen come gallop ... More >>

All We Want For Christmas: A Wish List From The LA Weekly Food Team

It's that time of year, when material and consumer lust the joy of giving is upon us. There are a million food-related gift guides out there, many of them touting all that's new and exciting in the world of cooking gadgets and indulgent eating. But I thought, rather that scour the web for gift ideas ... More >>

10 Best Eats in Little Osaka: Neighborhood Grub Crawl

Just north of the intersection of Sawtelle and Olympic, in the neighborhood known as Little Osaka, there's a quadrant of Los Angeles with so much outstanding food crammed into a relatively small space that it makes you wonder why these neighborhood planners can't have a crack at other parts of town. ... More >>

10 Best Cheap Eats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, yesterday. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull ou ... More >>

Grill Around the World in 8 Ways: Celebrating July 4th like an Angeleno

A proper Fourth of July feast probably begins at the grill. And in contemporary Los Angeles, this all-American meal is as likely to be comprised of yakitori and carne asada as hot dogs and hamburgers: Americans have been mixing and matching food traditions from our collective immigrant background si ... More >>

The Life Cycle of a Story: From Roy Choi's Musings to the Presumptive Death of Kogi

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws," Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To that short list of exceptions, we add sensationalized news, which seems to propel itself through the blogospher ... More >>

Celeb Coffee Showdown: Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Will Oldham

Last time we hosted a Celeb Coffee Showdown, we threw Darth Vader, David Lynch and Rob Zombie into the same metaphorical octagon. What did we learn? Everyone's a product whore, even the Dark Lord. This time, we went for a less formal but more carefully curated showdown, pitting Bonny "Prince" Bill ... More >>

Ecco Announces First 3 Bourdain Titles: Roy Choi and Some Other People

​Last September Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, announced that Anthony Bourdain (chef, crime novelist, No Reservations guy, friend-of-Chang, occasional writer of Treme episodes, etc.) would have his own line of books, one that would publish a small handful of titles every year. W ... More >>

DTLA Barista Throwdown Happening on Monday

T. NguyenA cappuccino and truffle at Demitasse Cafe.​We're not at all convinced that baristas are the new mixologists. We're not even convinced about the word "mixologist," which we can only say after suppressing our gag reflex. Nonetheless, Bobak Roshan's Demitasse Cafe will, on Monday, host ... More >>