Essex, when it was still up and running When a new bar is about to open in Hollywood, we can't help but imagine the scene in Back to the Future III when Marty McFly gets his coffin size measured before a showdown with Mad Dog Tannen. With such a ...
Joseph Mahon in the Bastide kitchen The trajectory of a fine dining chef these days is circuitous -- see: Ludo Lefebvre -- more often than not encompassing pit-stops, pop-ups, food trucks, food festivals, fried chicken epiphanies, grilled cheese ...
Gummy skull Silver trembling fetus ornaments and posters screen-printed with human blood--the colorful antics of The Flaming Lips' promotions are well documented. In January, Lips singer Wayne Coyne announced the band was planning to release smal...
Five Guys fans, get excited: We just confirmed that the next location opens in Culver City's Westfield Fox Hills mall this Friday at 11 a.m. Unless you live near Cerritos, Carson, Thousand Oaks and other outlying areas, this is huge. For the uniniti...
Deasy and Oliver sat on the couch and played well together. See part one on YouTube (above), and part two here. Deasy agreed that flavored milk (which Oliver has particularly vilified) is a bad thing to serve schoolkids, and said that he will recomme...
Wolfgang And Maida At The 2006 South Beach Food And Wine Festival There is a beautiful irony in knowing that all those years Betty Crocker boxed cake mix devotees were strolling the grocery store aisles in a fruitless search of the perfect pre-mi...
Jonagold apples To get to Ray's, the new restaurant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, you thread your way through Chris Burden's streetlamp installation, past the outdoor Stark Bar and into a glowing minimalist rectangle that abuts the soa...
If you weren't ready to be a Master Food Preserver, or just couldn't get in to the elite canning class, Food Forward has you covered. The non-profit organization that harvests fruit from private gardens and public spaces to give to local food pantrie...
The sensor film changes color, from yellow to blue. Proof positive that this fish is spoiled. Ever wondered whether that vacuum-packed chuck steak or that chicken breast is still fresh? Looks can be deceiving, and the "best-before" date may be no...
Click here for Anne Fishbein's slide show. Do you remember the first time a website seemed to change your life? Because I've been spending a lot of time lately on Google Translate, which may not have evolved from the sticks-and-rocks Babelfish quit...
Dear Mr. Gold: What are your thoughts on digestifs? I always want one, especially after a rare, expensive meal, but tend to regret it the next day. Is there a good rule of thumb on drinking after eating a rich meal? --Scott Vickers, via Facebo...
For this month's Wine Shop Report, we hit another grocery store chain, Fresh & Easy. Not because we are particularly fond of shopping for wine under fluorescent lights, but because that income tax check is still a little too fresh in our mind. And so...
The decor at Tiki-Ti flanked by two views of the 50th Anniversary Mug designed by Sven Kirsten. Break out the rum. L.A.'s most famous tiki bar, Tiki-Ti, turns half-a-century old this week, and they're throwing a four-day party to celebrate. Found...
celery, a knife This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer PlantThisGarden, a lovely shot of what looks to be a very sharp knife and a stack of celery aligned more like a garden bouquet than a pedestrian stack of vegetables. ...
2006 WorldCon, Glasgow, Scotland, with haggis in the foreground. Until we read Laura Miller's April 11th New Yorker piece on fantasy, horror and sci-fi writer George RR Martin, we didn't know much about HBO's new Game of Thrones, except that it'...
Google "meat," "bacteria," and "drug-resistant," and your Internet-gazing eyes will see some things that will make you want to hang up your steak knife. Recently, the Translational Genomics Research Institute published a study revealing some bad new...
Fans of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler's comedy series on NBC, already know that the show provides hilarious proof of The Midwest As Dystopia. What some of us didn't realize until it became the topic of lunch conversation was that it also d...
Hong Kong Waffle, Tasty Garden, Monterey Park. One of the most popular snacks on the streets of Hong Kong is the Gai Daan Jai, or "egg waffle." Made from simple ingredients: flour, eggs, baking powder, evaporated milk, starch, sugar and water, th...
A boy and his smoker Fans of Bigmista's mobile barbecue stand will be greeted by an enormous, fire engine-red smoker debuting at today's Torrance Farmers' Market. Neil and Phyllis Strawder, the owners of Bigmista, returned on Sunday from a week-l...
It sounds like the premise of a romantic comedy. (Or perhaps a gory slasher film? Let's hope not.) A handful of strangers meet at a restaurant to share some food and laughs, and to see where the night leads them. That's the idea behind GrubWithUs, th...
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Let's be honest: It's hard to get behind a purveyor of fancy tacos. This seeming contradiction goes against so many of tacos' sacred truths — that they are cheap; that… More >>
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
Is there a bread in the world more abused than focaccia? Spongy, leaden, heavily oily versions plague everything from fast-food menus to high-end restaurant bread baskets. Yes, the world is… More >>

