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Smoked trout crostini at The Stocking Frame
Located on the quiet end of Hill Street, The Stocking Frame has been open since early July in the ground floor of an old brick building. The name references the 1917 building's original function as a gar...
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Pouring some wine
The amount of wine you drink might depend on the size of your glass and whether or not you're holding it in your hand, according to a new study. And also whether you choose red or white, Health Central reports.
Researchers at Io...
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Screenshot from Jose Andres' Twitter page
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Marcella Hazan
When I moved to Florence to work on my dissertation, I knew that it would be a learning experience. While I knew that I would be delving into sixteenth century archives to search for clues about the Medici's shopping habits, I didn'...
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Editor's note: As many of you know, Bravo debuted a new show about the L.A. food scene recently. Since some of us spend our Sundays Thursdays watching sports instead of reality television (yes, even if it's about food; especially if it's about food),...
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Pink's at L.A. Loves Alex's Lemonade
Anyone who's been to high-profile food festivals in L.A. knows what to expect: hot sun, parking jams, long lines, celeb chefs, actors and affluent women in floppy hats. There was plenty of that at this year's L...
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Marcella Hazan
If you did not spend yesterday making Marcella Hazan's glorious Bolognese sauce, or any number of the beloved Italian cookbook author's many, many beautiful recipes, maybe you should have. Yesterday morning the news spread, first on...
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Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mi...
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When last we left the Irv's Burgers saga way back in June, the West Hollywood burger shack run by Sonia Hong was facing eviction at the hands of their pesky landlords, who were looking to double the rent on the space. Well, for a time, it seemed that...
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If you make people sick because you sell dirty food, the government would like you to know it is no longer playing.
On Thursday, U.S marshals acting on behalf of the U.S. Attorney's Office with the Food and Drug Administration arrested...
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Sunday is National Coffee Day. Although here at Squid Ink, every day is coffee day. Seriously. This blog is powered by espresso.
With that in mind, we thought we'd bring you a compilation of our best coffee coverage -- all the studies, openings, ca...
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German beers
Los Angeles is not particularly known for its Oktoberfest celebrations. Our city never saw the waves of German immigrants that settled in the Midwest and Great Lakes Region, who brought with them precision brewing and sausage-spicing ...
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Thebomb.com: guacamole, sea urchin, chicharrones at Petty Cash.
This week, our main review considers Petty Cash Taqueria. Read the full review over in the food section, or see below for a quick rundown.
Backstory: Petty Cash is in the space form...
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Estofado Taco
Word around the taco cooler is that chef Ricardo Diaz -- he of Guisados, Cook's Tortas and Bizarra Capital -- is planning to open a fried taco concept in Silver Lake in the coming months, aptly called Duro (that's "hard" in Spanish)....
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croissants at FarmShop
If you've never tried making croissants at home, maybe you should, just once. The operation of making laminated dough (dough and butter layered, rolled out and layered some more, and some more) is at once both very simple an...
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Chef Ludo Lefebvre
Ludo Lefebvre is opening a fried chicken stand at Staples Center. The stand, called LudoBird, will serve roughly the same menu as Lefebvre's LudoTruck, with a few tweaks.
"The menu will be similar to that one the LudoTruck, bu...
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What's different this year in L.A., according to the Google-owned Zagat? Well, the big news is that Urasawa, the famously expensive Beverly Hills Japanese restaurant, is no longer the No. 1 restaurant in town. That honor goes to Asanebo in Studio Cit...
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Burger King "Satisfries"
In its seemingly endless quest to bark eternally up the wrong tree as it attempts to revitalize its brand, Burger King has released a new lower-calorie version of its second-rate french fries. While we didn't think it was ...
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Doughnuts from Donut Friend
A woman stands at the counter of the newly opened Donut Friend in Highland Park and points at a familiar plastic bottle. "What do you do with the Sriracha?" she asks.
"Anything you want," the woman behind the counter r...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
