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    May 10, 2013

    New Online Dining Club: Truffl

    It's arguable whether we've fully arrived at Web 3.0, but there has been a progression in the recent history of online companies trying to bring us food and drink -- whether as a product or through an event. Foodzie morphed from an online marketplace to shop for small-batch products into the web equ ... More >>

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    March 4, 2013

    February Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

    February was a big month for restaurant openings: Umami Burger continued to grow its empire with a $20 million dollar acquisition and a 14th location in Pasadena. On a smaller scale, Josh Gil and Daniel Snukal opened Tacos Punta Cabras in Santa Monica. The tiny taqueria replaces Utopia Cafe. After ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2013

    The Invention of the Hot Pocket, and Other Tales From a Conference on Iranian Jews

    Though Jews and Iran have had their differences, it might be surprising to learn that the history of Jews in Iran is as old and rich as Hugh Hefner. That 2,700-year history was recognized and honored this weekend at a conference held at UCLA's Fowler Museum in conjunction with its "Light and Shadow ... More >>

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    December 13, 2012

    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 >>

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    October 11, 2012

    10 Best Sweet Treats in Los Angeles

    As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, last week. 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 out ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2012

    Life of Pie: L.A. Celebrates Its Pizza Moment

    From our 2012 Restaurant Issue, celebrating everything pizza in L.A. On a Wednesday evening, 10 students sit along the counter at the Scuola di Pizza, the, yes, "School of Pizza" at L.A.'s premier pizza joint, Mozza. I'd like to say we're a varied lot, but that wouldn't be true -- we're uniformly w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2012

    Is Westwood Really 'Dying'? Twitter Account Mourns Neighborhood's Decline

    Ever since the beginning May, a morbid Twitter account called @westwoodisdying has been forming an unofficial file of all "the closed and closing storefronts in Westwood Village," and just documenting the neighborhood's cultural decline in general. (For example: the buffing-over of a Shepard Fairey ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2012

    Q & A with Adam Richman: Heartbreak, His Food Journal L.A. Food Profundity

    Adam Richman spends the first several minutes of our interview discussing the best way to get places in L.A., as most Angelenos do. He can't count himself one anymore, but he used to live here, coincidentally, one block from this writer's current residence. Now, however, Richman is a citizen of the ... More >>

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    March 25, 2011

    [Updated] 10 Food Fundraisers for Japan Disaster Relief: Cube, Koi, Umami, Manuel's El Tepeyac, La Seine, Xino More

    Courtesy of Koi.The Rising Sun Roll (left) and Koi Fusion Shot (right).​Want to help the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in your own gluttonous way? If you don't have the skills to make a treat for LA Bakesale for Japan, the mega, citywide fundraiser set for April 2, here are 10 ot ... More >>

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