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10 Best Crab Cakes in Los Angeles

Recipes for delicate cakes of minced and bound seafood are as old as, well, maritime cooking. The crab version we mostly eat today -- crab, mayonnaise, breadcrumbs, eggs, seasoning and some onion, gathered up and pan-fried or broiled -- is a colonial American recipe that hasn't changed much since it ... More >>

Spago: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

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 >>

1: Spago's Veal Filet Mignon Tartare

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 1: Spago's Veal Filet Mignon Tartare. When it arrives at your table, Wolfgang Puck's iteration of veal tartare may look more like a Sally Mann photo ... More >>

Your Oktoberfest Round-Up: Beer, Brats, Pretzels More Beer

L.A. Oktoberfest -- October 20-21: Bust out the lederhosen for this one, because it's likely to get a little crazy. This two-day festival at the Vanguard in Hollywood sounds like a scene from the movie Beerfest: busty Bavarian babes, beer song sing-a-longs, roving accordion players, stein-holding co ... More >>

Top Chef Seattle Cheftestants Announced

Bravo announced this morning that Top Chef Season 10 "will be coming to you shortly," that it was filmed in Seattle, and revealed the identity of the season's contestants. Judges this season will be Deadpan-Padma and Tough-Tom, of course, as well as Gail Simmons and Hugh Acheson. Wolfgang Puck will ... More >>

What's in Season at the Farmers Market: Forellenschluss Lettuce

If you go to the Wednesday Santa Monica farmers market early, before the bell rings at 8:30 and the crowds fill the streets and the marine layer from the nearby Pacific burns off in the late summer sun, you'll notice some things you might miss later on. Wolfgang Puck shucking corn alone at one marke ... More >>

Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival: The Wine Part of the Equation

The second annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival concluded Sunday, a slickly produced, three-day debauch mostly held in and around the capacious digs of L.A. Live and its Marriott property -- though neither conference room nor rooftop exhibition tent could adequately contain the assemblage of whit ... More >>

Reader Letters: Are We Ever Going to Write About Man Food?

We here at L.A. Weekly like to think that we cater to people with all kinds of genders. You know, people with the male kind and people with the female kind. Hell, I hope we even appeal to all the various shades of in-between kinds. But apparently we don't cater to men, or more specifically I don't. ... More >>

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 >>

82: Sooo Cali Dog at Dog Haus

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. 82: Sooo Cali Dog at Dog Haus. Maximalist-topping hot dogs aren't exactly new in Los Angeles. Pink's has been creating celebrity-named behemoths for the better ... More >>

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories

You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>

Pastry Chef Sally Camacho Returns to WP24, Brings Ovaltine Candy Bar

Guzzle & NoshPastry Chef Sally Camacho's Ovaltine Candy Bar at WP24​ These past six months have been a game of musical chairs in the pastry department at two Wolfgang Puck restaurants. When pastry chef Sally Camacho left WP24 to oversee the pastry program at the reopening Wolfgang Puck at the ... More >>

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Considers the Westfield Culver City Mall

In which Jonathan Gold heads to the mall, specifically the food court in the Westfield Culver City -- previously the Fox Hills mall -- and braves the traditional landscape of "Cinnabons and Chili's Toos and Wolfgang Puck Cafes." Is there hazard pay for restaurant critics? It feels almost illegal, e ... More >>

The Year In Food Interviews

One of the beautiful things about journalism, not unlike therapy, is that you get to talk to people about themselves. In this case, we have the enormous privilege of being able to take our notepads and recorders and iPhones into the kitchens and restaurants -- or hotel lobbies and neighborhood coffe ... More >>

11 New Restaurants for New Year's Eve

Anne FishbeinPicca​On New Year's Eve, restaurants celebrate with live bands, festive décor, theme dinners, exceptional ingredients, multi-course meals, tasting menus and endless glasses of bubbly. How to choose the best spot? We've selected 11 restaurants that opened in 2011 to represent a ... More >>

Steakhouse or Gay Bar?: Finally, A Website Breaks It Down

In Westlake, there is an establishment called the Silver Platter. The name brings to mind slabs of prime rib served on shining plates with ornate handles. However, if you go, you'll find no beef, just plenty of wriggling flesh on the dance floor. Over on Wilshire in Beverly Hills, there is Cut, W ... More >>

Red Medicine: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Spago: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Cut: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Best Week Ever

Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011

So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>

Look, Up in the Sky!

It's the Ritz! It's Chinese! It's Wolfgang Puck!

Los Angeles Magazine Hosts The Food Event 2010: From The Vine

Los Angeles MagazineThe Food Event 2010: From the Vine​​If you missed last month's Taste of Beverly Hills or Wolfgang Puck's American Wine & Food Festival, mark your calendar for October 24, when Los Angeles Magazine hosts The Food Event 2010: From the Vine at Malibu's Saddlerock Ranch. ... More >>

LAX Concessions: Last Bidder Standing Is Wolfgang Puck Express

Last bidder standing​In the battle for the right to serve rapidly prepared food to LAX passengers, most of the attention has gone to the two heavyweights: SSP America and HMS Host.But with both of them knocked out of the bidding by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich on Tuesday, it's time to get to kno ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/24-5/28

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Someday soon, we are promised, LAX will be a magical fairyland of cuisine, where the terminals will fairly bristle with the best that Los Angeles dining has to offer, where the enchiladas, pizzas, and exquisite regiona ... More >>

Q & A with Ari Rosenson, Chef de Cuisine at Cut, Part 2: L.A.'s Evolving Steakhouse Culture, Scoring Product Expanding Cut

In the first part of our interview with Ari Rosenson, Chef de Cuisine at Cut, we learned about his career trajectory from high school student to Wolfgang Puck's kitchens. In part 2, read about Rosenson's take on the state of steakhouses, where he likes to eat on his day off, what Hollywood agents ma ... More >>

Iron Chef Morimoto Might be Landing at LAX

Getty Images via Grub Street​Perhaps the degrading commercial earlier this week that pitted LAX up against SFO went straight to our food court, or maybe the closing of The Hump inspired LA's international airport to take a stab at the title for the best grub in the county within 100 feet of a ... More >>

Passover Planner: Restaurant Seders Around Town

Photo: J. RitzEvan Kleiman's matzo ball soup at Angeli.​ The two nights of Passover seder 5770 fall on Monday, March 29 and Tuesday, March 30. Our local, trusty, sophisticated Passover mavens honor the broad Jewish culinary diaspora while hewing to some familiar traditions as well. Bottom lin ... More >>

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Dinner & A Movie: Learn to Cook While You Watch 'Like Water For Chocolate'

Combining food and film is something we're particularly good at in this town (just ask Wolfgang Puck). Tomorrow night, February 19th, art historian and chef Maite Gomez-Rejón combines a class on Mexican cuisine with clips from the film Like Water for Chocolate. Learn how to make chiles en Nogada, c ... More >>

Saveur Magazine, #127: The L.A. Edition

Saveur Magazine​Saveur Magazine's new issue, #127, is now online. Thanks for sharing, right? Well, you might want to check this one out, as it's the Los Angeles issue, filled with all manner of glorious food prose for Angelenos. Gael Greene on Pizzeria Mozza. Patric Kuh on the Brown Derby and ... More >>

Conan To Emcee Police Benefit; You're Really Not Invited

An elite event to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Los Angeles Police Department, to mark the end of Chief William Bratton's tenure, and to provide yet another opening ceremony for the new Police Administration Building will feature Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien as an emcee, Wolfgang Puck as ... More >>

An Interview with Spago Pastry Chef Sherry Yard A Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

sherryyard.comSherry Yard with Wolfgang Puck​Sherry Yard moves at the speed of someone who, for professional reasons, consumes a lot of sugar. But when she's not at the pastry kitchen of Spago or Cut, or overseeing the desserts of Wolfgang Puck's vast and growing empire, or writing cookbooks ( ... More >>

Branding Griffith Park: Heirs of Land's Bequeather Fight Commercialization Plan

Griffith J. Griffith's great-grandson: "It’s not a theme park. It’s not a movie studio. People don’t want to see it turned into Disneyland ..."

How the Hell Is It June Already?

What to do in L.A., May 30-June 5

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

Straight to the Duck Heart

Jonathan Gold’s Top 10 dishes of 2006

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

From A.O.C. to Zankou

Raw Power

Los Angeles sushi chefs reinvent the modern kitchen

The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

Killer Wine Lists

New to the List

Don't Call It a Comeback

Beacon, a new kind of hybrid

Party Resources

Fajita pitas, Octopus Tacos, and the Birth of California Cuisine

25 moments — over 25 years — in L.A. restaurants

Nine Kick-Ass Dishes of 2002

Kitchen Gods

The Food Network

Mako: A Room of His Own

Chef Mako Tanaka branches out

1982 Timeline