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Vinny Dotolo

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2013

    2013 James Beard Finalists: The L.A. Edition

    The James Beard Foundation unveiled award finalists earlier this morning. Among the hometown candidates who remain contenders for the award are the following: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal) for Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino, Valentino Vin Bar) and Carolyn Styne (Lucq ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 28, 2013

    Son of a Gun: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

    The James Beard Foundation unveiled award finalists earlier this morning. Among the hometown candidates who remain contenders for the award are the following: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal) for Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino, Valentino Vin Bar) and Carolyn Styne (Lucq ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    February 28, 2013

    Animal: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

    The James Beard Foundation unveiled award finalists earlier this morning. Among the hometown candidates who remain contenders for the award are the following: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal) for Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino, Valentino Vin Bar) and Carolyn Styne (Lucq ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2013

    Two Great Fundraisers: Animal and N/Naka Both Have Benefit Dinners Coming Up

    Two great L.A. restaurants have dinners coming up that benefit charity. Next week on Jan. 14, Animal will host a dinner with Christopher Kostow, the 3 star Michelin chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena, California.

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2013

    Dana Goodyear, L.A.-Based New Yorker Writer, Has a New Book of Poetry

    See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Los Angeles readers may be forgiven for thinking that Dana Goodyear is a food writer. In The New Yorker, where Goodyear has been a staff writer since 2007, she's written about Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, the chef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2012

    5 Overlooked L.A. Dining Trends of 2012 (That Will Change the Way You Eat in 2013)

    Every year dining trends come and go -- on the suface 2012 might not have looked like the most eventful year, aside from the foie gras ban and some high-profile restaurant closures. But like the Santa Ana's, the winds of change are forever blowing in L.A., and the seeds of what will likely arrive in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2012

    5 Places in L.A. to Get Your Poutine Fix

    There was once a time, perhaps, when poutine was consumed mostly by Quebecois with a penchant for late-night drunk food. But ever since it made its way into the playbooks of hip chefs a few years ago, poutine has become a gastropub staple, up there with beet salad and blue-cheesed burgers. In its ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2012

    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 >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 8, 2012

    Southern Cooking, Animal-Style

    Animal, Son of a Gun and the real takeaway of the Southern food trend

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2012

    Song of the South: Animal, Son of a Gun, and the Real Takeaway of the Southern Food Trend

    This week, in place of a review, we're running an essay about the Southern food trend in L.A. and beyond. A few weeks ago, the Southern Foodways Alliance held its annual fall Symposium, and the chefs asked to cook the dinner that kicked off the event were L.A.'s own Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo. Wha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2012

    The New Pastrami Sandwich 3 Great Places to Get One

    This week we're launching a new series called Food of the Moment which devotes itself to an ingredient or dish currently experiencing an boom at local eateries. We'll then eat it, dissect it, discuss it -- and tell you where you can get some. In a Slate piece back in September, Rachel Levin chronic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2012

    Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Beer Grilled Cheese Pairing, Iberico Ham Quest, Good Food Pie Contest Food Truck Battle

    Beer and Grilled Cheese Pairing Night Sample exotic beers and grilled cheese at Andrew's Cheese Shop at this popular annual event, which features tastings and tutorials with beer and cheese experts. WHAT: Beer and Grilled Cheese Night WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30-10 p.m. WHERE: Andrew's Cheese Shop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2012

    67: Son of a Gun's Uni and Burrata

    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. 67: Son of a Gun's Uni and Burrata. There are quite a few contenders for favorites on Son of a Gun's menu, dishes that made this restaurant a destination in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2012

    Animal's Chefs Have Badass Taste in Music

    [Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] You really haven't heard Kanye West and Jay-Z's "H.A.M." until it plays while you dig into a slab of Animal's balsamic pork ribs, delicata squash, arugula and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2012

    David LeFevre Hosts 7-Chef Birthday Dinner at Manhattan Beach Post

    Most people celebrate their 40th birthday with a night out their favorite restaurant. Chef David LeFevre is doing his a bit differently -- he's hosting a 7-chef, 5-course meal at his own Manhattan Beach restaurant Manhattan Beach Post on July 16. Alongside him will be Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook of A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 20, 2012

    Food News Roundup: Death by Walk-In, Animal Dudes Talk Foie Vintage LA Restaurants

    If you've ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, you have undoubtedly had the irrational fear that you won't be able to get out of the walk-in, and you'll die in there. Turns out that fear isn't so irrational: Huffpost Food reports that a restaurant owner in Tennessee was found dead inside his walk-in ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    May 24, 2012

    Pulling Off the White Tablecloth

    In the L.A. dining scene, it's no magic trick. It's casual.

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    California C.H.E.F.S. Host Foie Gras Super Dinner

    In protest of California's rapidly approaching foie gras ban, C.H.E.F.S. (the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards), an organization that sounds like an maniacal conglomerate out of a James Bond film, or perhaps a culinary-slanted take on the Avengers, announced yesterday that it will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Food Word Clouds: Animal The Joy of Foie Gras

    Today's food word cloud is of this month's menu from Animal, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's Fairfax Avenue restaurant. Look closely and you get a quick idea of what makes the restaurant so much fun: poutine and oxtail, fondue and Spam. You can also see how important foie gras has been to the place, an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    [Updated] UCLA's Science & Food Series: Or, Why There's A Modernist in Your Soup (or at Your Dinner Table)

    Update: The lovely folks at UCLA have just told us that there are still spots available for the June 9 lectures. Maybe go reserve one now. General admission is $20; UCLA students get in free with a valid student ID. This semester is a pretty good time to be a "non-science student" at UCLA: 50 lucky ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Fried Chicken at Son of a Gun: Sandwich of the Week

    [Our 30 Sandwiches in 30 Days series was big -- but not big enough to encompass the multitude of L.A.'s sandwiches. As promised, our weekly sandwich pick extends the odyssey.] Son of a Gun is, for the most part, a seafood restaurant, one where Animal duo Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo give reign to the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Hot Toddy Day: 3 Cocktails to Keep You Warm

    It's National Hot Toddy Day, another holiday seemingly invented for food writers who need to fill blogs with dubious copy (cough, cough). Not that we have anything against warm cocktails. They're romantic. They're old. They're vaguely medicinal. Amid the tame Los Angeles winter, however, hot toddy c ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Son of a Gun: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    It's National Hot Toddy Day, another holiday seemingly invented for food writers who need to fill blogs with dubious copy (cough, cough). Not that we have anything against warm cocktails. They're romantic. They're old. They're vaguely medicinal. Amid the tame Los Angeles winter, however, hot toddy c ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    November 10, 2011

    Animal: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

    It's National Hot Toddy Day, another holiday seemingly invented for food writers who need to fill blogs with dubious copy (cough, cough). Not that we have anything against warm cocktails. They're romantic. They're old. They're vaguely medicinal. Amid the tame Los Angeles winter, however, hot toddy c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2011

    Chef Ludo Animal Flaunt Impending Foie Gras Ban

    With a state law that bans the sale of foie gras coming down the pipeline like so much corn meal down a duck's throat, trust a Frenchman to lead the chefs' rebellion against the impending foie gras ban. Chef Ludo Lefebvre has teamed with Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo to host a foie gras feast at Anima ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2011

    Food News Roundup: Fake San Marzanos, Dumb Restaurant Laws, Vegans More Vegans

    Flickr/chingstareal San Marzanos​ -- 95% of American-sold cans of San Marzano tomatoes are not the real thing. [gustiBlog via NYT] -- From omnivore to vegan: The dietary education of Bill Clinton. [CNN] -- How to store olive oil, from Bill Daley. [Chicago Tribune] -- More fun with Jon Sh ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 7, 2011

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Flickr/chingstareal San Marzanos​ -- 95% of American-sold cans of San Marzano tomatoes are not the real thing. [gustiBlog via NYT] -- From omnivore to vegan: The dietary education of Bill Clinton. [CNN] -- How to store olive oil, from Bill Daley. [Chicago Tribune] -- More fun with Jon Sh ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    June 30, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Son of a Gun

    Flickr/chingstareal San Marzanos​ -- 95% of American-sold cans of San Marzano tomatoes are not the real thing. [gustiBlog via NYT] -- From omnivore to vegan: The dietary education of Bill Clinton. [CNN] -- How to store olive oil, from Bill Daley. [Chicago Tribune] -- More fun with Jon Sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits Son of a Gun

    Anne Fishbeininterior of Son of a Gun​ This week, Jonathan Gold visits Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's second restaurant, Son of a Gun. That would be their fish restaurant: Imagine going through the Animal menu and replacing all the pork products with corresponding bits of seafood. Okay, that's n ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 31, 2011

    Jonathan Gold Reviews Son of a Gun

    Anne Fishbeininterior of Son of a Gun​ This week, Jonathan Gold visits Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's second restaurant, Son of a Gun. That would be their fish restaurant: Imagine going through the Animal menu and replacing all the pork products with corresponding bits of seafood. Okay, that's n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    First Bite: Son of a Gun, or What Would You Want To Change Anyway?

    F. FriesemaJonagold apples​ Whatever the current style in Los Angeles restaurants ends up being named, all of it -- from the small-plate thing to the fixation on local, organic produce; the off-center proteins to the international palette of flavors; and the resistance to even modest customer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 26, 2011

    Son of a Gun Opens Tomorrow Night

    N. GalutenInside Son of a Gun, where the paper will be up until tomorrow morning.​After much waiting and anticipation, Son of a Gun, the new restaurant from Animal chefs Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook, is opening for business tomorrow night. We spoke with Shook over the phone, who confirmed the op ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Inside Son of a Gun: Dotolo and Shook Discuss their New Restaurant

    N. GalutenThe other side of the paper: Vinny Dotolo (left) and Jon Shook inside Son of a Gun​"I remember walking these streets wasted," said Jon Shook, who along with Vinny Dotolo make up the chef and ownership duo behind the highly-acclaimed restaurant Animal. "I'm back." Dotolo and Shook ar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Animal Chefs Shook and Dotolo Reveal New Seafood Restaurant: Son of a Gun

    N. GalutenAnimal (and Son of a Gun) chefs Jon Shook (right) and Vinny Dotolo​After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Year in Review: Top Food and Pot Stories of 2010

    N. GalutenThe famed KFC dispensary, which even spawned a South Park episode​Marijuana has been in the news a lot this year. Prop 19 brought the legalization debate to the national forefront, even though it never had much of a shot at passing (despite our Governator's well-documented use during ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    Will Work For Food: Your Labor Day Food Festival Weekend

    Good thing that Labor Day weekend traditionally marks the end of wearing white -- although here in Los Angeles, many restaurants are lucky if diners wear pants, white or otherwise -- as this holiday weekend has turned into one giant food festival. Between all the food trucks, food demos, cooking com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Jon Shook & Vinny Dotolo's Neighborhood Expansion Plan

    Anne FishbeinShook and Dotolo at Animal​Rumor and speculation and unrestrained wish-fulfillment aside, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo are indeed opening a second restaurant. Yesterday the two chefs confirmed that they signed the lease on the 8379 West Third Street location (Restaurant 3, Cynthia's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 7/19-7/23

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Even the third or fourth time around, Fu-ga seems like a discovery, a small piece of a better downtown preserved 20 feet underground."

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2010

    L.A. Vendy Awards This Saturday

    Vendy AwardsVendys come to L.A. this Saturday​ For the past five years in New York City, The Vendy Awards have celebrated the best street food that city has to offer. This Saturday, for the first time, they're coming to Los Angeles. This year's proceedings will take place at MacArthur Park, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Animal's Jon Shook & Vinny Dotolo Roll With Cart For A Cause

    Elina ShatkinAnimal's fried chicken sandwich.​With all the recent hoopla about fried chicken, it's no surprise that Animal chefs and recent New Yorker poster boys Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo wanted to enshrine their take on the dish. Yesterday on the Cart For A Cause truck, the dudes dished out a b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Jeremy Fox Brings Vegetables (Vegetables!) to Animal

    SF WeeklyChef Jeremy Fox​As we mentioned in our March interview with Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, Jeremy Fox, the highly acclaimed former chef of Ubuntu in Napa, is coming to Animal. Fox will be working with the Animal chefs on a vegetable intensive, prixe fix, multi-course menu from May 17th t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Some Wine With Your Bacon

    This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of a flute of brut rosé Champagne taken at Animal, comes to you courtesy of photographer Love & Lemonade. Something to drink with your offal, your poutine, your foie gras loco moco. And proof that Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook do in fact serve something that does not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/22-3/26

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "...it's safe to assume that few of us have ever been as voracious as the planet Neptune, which may have, according to a paper by Steven Desch quoted by The New Scientist, once slurped up an entire super-Earth and stole ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    Q&A With Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, The Men Behind Animal, Part I

    Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo grew up in Florida, met in culinary school, then went on to start a successful catering business. They had a cookbook, a Food Network show called 2 Dudes Catering, and even battled Cat Cora on an episode of Iron Chef America. But then they opened Animal Restaurant on Fairf ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    The Care & Feeding of Compost: The Etiology of Dirt, and Thus Your Market-Driven Dinner

    Photo credit: Diane CuA wheelbarrowful of dirt​If you work your way down the food chain, traveling, say, from the quail fry with grits, chard, slab bacon and maple jus on the menu at Animal to the rows of chard and thus to the field in which the vegetables are grown, you will eventually come t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2009

    Animal's Vinny Dotolo Added to Jonathan Gold Carnivore! Panel With Feniger, Becerra and Peel -- Saturday Noon at LA Weekly LA Weekend. Plus, Kogi Taco Truck on Friday and Dogs From Let's Be Frank on Saturday

    Anne FishbeinAnimal's Vinny Dotolo, the scarfed one, will be talking meat. Vinny Dotolo and partner Jon Shook are incapable of keeping their fleshly tendencies out of every possible course at their Fairfax restaurant Animal -- consider that their most talked-about dessert is the bacon-chocolate cru ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2009

    Seen and Tasted: Nancy Silverton, Neal Fraser, the Boys of Animal and More Meet "L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook" Author at 3rd and Fairfax

    L.A.'s Original Farmers Market Cookbook: Meet Me at 3rd and Fairfax by JoAnn Cianciulli brings the focus of L.A.'s famous gathering place back to where it belongs. Instead of waxing poetic about the dancing fountain, shiny retro trolley, and other tools of faux urbanism that have hogged attention si ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 28, 2008

    Animal: Boys in the Hood

    Feeding Fairfax's Dude District

  • Eat+Drink

    June 19, 2008

    Let There Be Meat

    The Food Dudes release their inner animal

  • Eat+Drink

    February 7, 2008

    Food, Dude! Stoner Caterers

    Chef duo's Food Network show falls flat, but they've moved on to the Carson Daly show and their first restaurant, Animal

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