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May 6, 2013The 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 >>
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January 31, 2013Porchetta is the thing to eat right now -- but deep roots belie its current trendiness
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December 13, 2012Now, more than ever, Wolfgang Puck's signature restaurant is a must-try
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December 13, 2012Today's restaurant review focuses on Spago, Wolfgang Puck's newly remodeled restaurant in Beverly Hills. Read the full review, or take a quick tour of the facts, plus a few extras, below.
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September 27, 2012In our column First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.
Anthony Bourdain made it look so great. "Baja's like Tuscany!" he'd
proclaimed to the media. And right in L.A.'s backyard. I'd never been,
nor had my best friend, so we booked hotel rooms f ... More >>
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August 17, 2012Did your plans for a summer vacation in Europe not pan out? Well, you can console yourself this fall by heading north on the 101 to Westlake Village. That's where you'll find The Stonehaus, a combo coffeehouse and winery with a European flair, which is now under construction on the grounds of the We ... More >>
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July 18, 2012See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately.
See also: 'Stick a Fork in It' column Tijuana SÃ!.
The promise of wine country that's "like Tuscany" right in our own backyard of Baja is enough to have many of us running for the borde ... More >>
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June 4, 2012See also: Anthony Bourdain's Baja Episode of No Reservations Will Make You Want to Cross the Border Immediately.
See also: 'Stick a Fork In It' column Tijuana SÃ!.
Like many Southern Californians, and of course, Anthony Bourdain, we've been relatively obsessed with Baja lately, especially upon hea ... More >>
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May 25, 2012The annual bible of where to go to the beach this summer and not get sick is out.
The place to avoid, apparently, is Malibu.
And not just because David Geffen doesn't want you there.
Yes, despite the concentration of billionaires, babes and gaudy, Tuscany-villa architecture, the rich folks of Mal ... More >>
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May 15, 2012The Baja California episode of No Reservations begins with a soundtrack of gunshots and sirens peppering news reports of violence in Tijuana. But against this noise we see Anthony Bourdain strolling into town looking unafraid. He knows what you're thinking: "Wait, isn't Tijuana dangerous?"
The shor ... More >>
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May 9, 2012Most diners at Bäco Mercat have probably tried to guess chef Josef Ceneno's upbringing from what they see on their plates. Jonathan Gold has observed that the menu mixes "flavors from Italy, France, and Western China, Georgia (U.S.) and Georgia (eastern Europe), Tuscany and Peru." In fact, the chef ... More >>
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April 18, 2012If you didn't initially order the taco al pastor at Taqueria Cuernavaca, surely you will after the trip to the salsa bar. Because while loading the small plastic cups with salsa and a few dark, dark red chiles de árbol, you'll probably glance into the kitchen. And in said kitchen, you'll spot meat ... More >>
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April 17, 2012Drew Barrymore perks up when we start talking about Baja's wine country -- a topic that seems to be on everyone's lips since Anthony Bourdain declared it the new Tuscany. "That sounds so cool!" she says excitedly on the other end of the phone. "All I do is sit around and research what food adventure ... More >>
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February 10, 2012College of the Canyons/Jesse MuñozAnthony Bourdain, giving a rapt audience a window into making No Reservations.We don't think any stone was left unturned by the end of Anthony Bourdain's speaking engagement last night at Santa Clarita's College of the Canyons.
We know his new "death row" m ... More >>
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February 9, 2012Blogs
February 7, 2012If you like to idle away those work hours with wordplay endeavors (who doesn't?), here's a fun one: What are the most and least expensive cappuccinos in L.A.? There is a catch, of course. This is not a menu battle between espresso machines in different parts of town or an obvious face-off between th ... More >>
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December 7, 2011F. FriesemaJonagold applesSome new small-plates restaurants are content to serve you hamburgers and fries. Others bring in influences from Singapore, Copenhagen or Tokyo. But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culi ... More >>
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July 13, 2011JgarbeeTim Guest Serving Guests At Wine ExpoIt's been nearly 10 months since Wine Expo opened a tasting bar/retail food shop next to its flagship Santa Monica wine store. In other words, plenty of time for manager Roberto Rogness to work out the inevitable kinks of suddenly jumping into the w ... More >>
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July 11, 2011In the cookbook world, there is a longstanding beauty versus brains dichotomy. We judge a cookbook by its stunning photographs (admiring each page, then promptly relegating the book to the coffee table) or by its encyclopedic recipe index and straightforward prose (ah, now this is going to be ... More >>
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May 18, 2011
Think that classical composition was only for the menfolk? Think again! Plenty of women composed and performed music, so many, in fact, that there were 750 entries in a 1902 Biographical Handbook of Women's Work in Music. That same year, a Los Angeles publishing house put out a 16-page book ... More >>
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February 18, 2011How often do we pre-order books these days? Hardly ever, as the book market is so flooded with new and "gently used" copies today we aren't exactly worried that Italy Dish By Dish: A Comprehensive Guide To Eating in Italy is going to sell out as quickly as LudoBites reservations when it is re ... More >>
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November 10, 2010Ya, ya we all know not to judge a book by its cover. And then we do it anyway. Consider Avec Eric, the latest from Eric Ripert that looks like yet another food television show in hardcover form. And it is, complete with another hot-as-hell Top Chef judge as the star. But when you get into the ... More >>
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May 27, 2010Hollywood stars and name-brand Euro auteurs are conquered by Carlos the Jackal,Thai magical realism and a whole lot of Romanians
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May 11, 2010J. RitzComing soon to Hillhurst: Gelato Bar gelati.When aiming to open their new Los Feliz location of Gelato Bar in late spring/early summer, owners Gail Silverton and Joel Gutman have achieved the near impossible for food business proprietors -- they will soft open around their target windo ... More >>
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April 5, 2010Whether it's a chef's memoir or a novel set in the kitchen, books that center around food have conjured up cravings, inspired us at the stove and opened us up to new adventures in dining. This is a list of our favorites: some fiction, some exposé, some popular, some obscure, but all in celebration ... More >>
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December 15, 2009Yesterday marked the inaugural day of the sixth annual Menu for Hope, a food blogger-fueled fundraiser started by Pim Techamuanvivit (Chez Pim). This year, an international collection of food bloggers is donating raffle items to raise money for the World Food Programme's Purchase for Progress, which ... More >>
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November 12, 2009When filmmaker and photographer Douglas Gayeton decided to write a book that would chronicle the 5 years he spent in rural Italy, he didn't dash off a guy's version of Under The Tuscan Sun. Fortunately for the rest of us. Instead Gayeton assembled a patchwork of sepia prints, singly and in montage, ... More >>
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September 24, 2009Where does the shopping end and the eating begin — or vice versa?
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August 21, 2009Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodCases of Farchioni olive oil at Guidi MarcelloTo the side of a dead-end street, off the one-way section of Olympic as it nears the beach, sits an industrial quadrant of concrete and delivery trucks and, though you may easily miss it if you're not among the initiat ... More >>
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August 21, 2009If you need to extend an olive branch to someone, you might as well offer the whole tree, plus a few bottles of olive oil. The place to get them is the Temecula Olive Oil Company in Old Town Temecula. The tasting room and shop sells Mission and Arbequina olive trees large enough to go in the ground ... More >>
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August 17, 2009Consult Your Psychologist Before Drinking ChardonnayThe Psychology of Wine: Truth and Beauty by the Glass by Evan and Brian Mitchell sounds like another book from wine experts telling us which wines to love--and which to scoff at. Sounds like exactly what we don't need, right? Taste bu ... More >>
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August 7, 2009 In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad.
"If one's national bard writes a poem to a dish consisting of chopped-up offal cooked in a sheep's stomach together with oatmeal and spices and secured with a curious pin, then that dish must be authentically national." Keep Y ... More >>
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August 6, 2009In Chianti, Italy, not your average neighborhood butcher
LA Life
April 23, 2009The bronze sculptor’s ironic work explores the twisted symbols of patriotism, and fast food
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September 18, 2008Spike Lee talks about his first foray into the war-movie genre
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July 31, 2008Eat+Drink
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February 7, 2008Shattering the stereotypes
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March 1, 2007Eat+Drink
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January 4, 2007Mozza lays down the dough
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December 21, 2006Jonathan Gold’s Top 10 dishes of 2006
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November 23, 2006Eat+Drink
June 22, 2006Big organic versus the little guys
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January 19, 2006Art+Books
December 1, 2005Introducing Europa Editions
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January 20, 2005News
November 11, 2004For the culinary hipsters in all of us
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June 17, 2004Charles L. Mee’s chaotic catechism
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