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Coffee Commissary
After some four months of renovations and repainting, Coffee Commissary will officially open this weekend in Burbank. Located right on the busy corner of Alameda and Olive avenues (which, if you ever got lost on your way here, ch...
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Red quinoa and yam lettuce burger from the FS Taste Truck
Remember when food trucks were for construction workers and college students?
And then tired yuppies discovered them, and then twee hipsters.
Now, apparently, all hell has broken loose. ...
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Quinotto at Mo-Chica
There are a lot of quinoa haters out there. At least that's what The Wall Street Journal would have us believe. The front page of the Sept. 14-15 weekend print edition carried the headline: "Foodies' Ingrained Loyalty to Quino...
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Gnocchetti with pesto genovese at Bucato.
Bucato, Evan Funke's new Culver City Italian restaurant, is the subject of this week's restaurant review. The full review is over in the food department -- we hope you'll consider reading the whole thing. ...
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Prime Pickles
He was a well-liked executive chef -- and TV star, winning his episode of Chopped, handily -- when he hung up his toque, moved from The Churchill to a rented space on Robertson Blvd., and started boiling pickle jars. Now Bruce Kalman...
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A pig enjoying a life far away from "high-density livestock production."
Maybe this is case of science reinforcing logic, but researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have made a breakthrough: Living in close proximity ...
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Dog Haus
If you need a reason to eat a burger -- because sometimes you do, no matter how trifling -- today is National Cheeseburger Day. And while there are an awful lot of places in this city to have a fine burger, maybe make your way to Dog Haus...
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Select Beer Store
L.A. Beer Week runs Thursday, Sept. 19 through Sunday, Sept. 29. It's a time to celebrate beer -- from favorite local breweries and nationwide collaborators -- to visit the hard-working bars and bartenders that serve us, and to m...
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St. Mark's Place, New York
Eat24, the food delivery app, is very, very proud of itself. Why? Because they figured out that Americans like porn.
The app's marketing team is making a big deal of the fact that they are now advertising on porn sites...
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Gino Angelini
Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we check in with Gino Angelini, chef at Angelini Osteria and RivaBella.
For almost 20 years, Gino Angeli...
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Greenspan at the Foundry on Melrose
Do you, as many of us do, mark the passage of time by restaurants that have opened and closed throughout Los Angeles? If so, you may have been flipping through your calendar, trying to figure out when in hell Er...
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Beer float
Peddler's & Ales
Pair ice cream or sorbet from Peddler's Creamery with craft beer from breweries such as Firestone Walker Brewery, Angel City Brewery and Eagle Rock Brewery. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Keep a Breast Founda...
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Kopi Luwak beans
If you're paying $225 a pound for civet poop coffee, you want to make sure you're getting the real sh ... deal.
Some say that the taste of the world's most expensive coffee beans, which pass through the digestive tracts of Asian ...
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Whatever your favorite things in L.A., it's time to share your wealth of knowledge and make sure the coolest places and things are honored. How, you ask? Easy. Vote in the Best of L.A. Readers Poll! Time is running out to make your voice heard, so vo...
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Meatballs at Rao's
Rao's, the legendary 117-year-old East Harlem restaurant that is widely believed to be the hardest place in America to secure a reservation, opens in Hollywood today. This is the restaurant's third location -- a Rao's opened at ...
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It's been 40 years since Moosewood restaurant, a natural foods restaurant in downtown Ithaca's Dewitt Mall, was founded by a collective of cooks unconcerned with culinary school and determined to promote an herbivorous lifestyle.
Moosewood was not ...
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McDonald's "Mighty Wings"
McDonald's has finally overcome its 50-year resistance to the notion of animals having bones. And the results are kind of awesome.
The company has spent nearly half a century working as hard as it possibly could to separ...
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Potato knish at Brent's
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...
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As if our anxieties about meat aren't high enough, and its morality and safety don't already keep us up at night, now there's something even more alarming to consider: The U.S. has just given the go-ahead for a handful of Chinese poultry plants to be...
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Ramen Burger by Ikemen
Going to a food festival (especially one being held for the first time) is always a risky thing. As these things always seem to be held during the summer, there will be heat. There will be crowds. And, above all, there will...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
