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Rustic Canyon Review: Chef Jeremy Fox Makes a Good Restaurant Even Better The high-profile chef brings out the Californian at this nine-year-old mainstay
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May 16, 2013
It's the type of dish that might make a vegetarian weep: vibrant green, ultra-fresh stalks of late-spring asparagus, topped with a pert,... More >>
Corazon y Miel Review: Craft Cocktails and Creative Cooking Take Up Residence in a Surprising Place The Bell restaurant's heart is in the right place, our critic finds.
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May 09, 2013
Twenty years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that practically every small town in America would one day have an espresso bar. You could... More >>
Bludso's Review: A Compton Classic Comes to Hollywood Kevin Bludso's barbecue works even in translation, our critic finds
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May 02, 2013
If acts of extreme eating hold some kind of (unfathomable) appeal for you, here's a meaty proposition I recently tackled in the line of duty:... More >>
Hinoki and the Bird Review: The Sweet Smell of Success David Myers' new Century City restaurant is a triumph of the senses
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April 25, 2013
American cooking is a thing of brute force: Even at its best it relies on big, bold flavors to seduce us. Traditionally, whole senses go ignored... More >>
LYFE Kitchen Review: This Would-Be Chain's Heart Is in the Right Place, But Its Food Isn't
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April 18, 2013
It's hard to take seriously, this new wave of "healthy" fast food, these McWraps and Wendy's flatbread sandwiches. It's as if fast food chains... More >>
John Sedlar's Critically Acclaimed Playa May Be Closed, But With Rivera and His Museum Tamal, He's Still Cooking
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April 11, 2013
On a sunny March afternoon in downtown L.A., John Sedlar, immaculate in chef's whites, holding an enormous cup of Starbucks coffee, is giving a... More >>
Allumette Review: Miles Thompson's Echo Park Restaurant Is Outrageously Ambitious The Vagrancy Project founder has talent to spare
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April 04, 2013
An entree of turnips and brown rice sounds vaguely like something you'd get for lunch at a very austere, vegan yoga retreat. It does not sound... More >>
L.A.'s Wine Bars Are Better Than Ever. Here Are Our Seven Favorites
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March 28, 2013
Like so many trends in Los Angeles, the wine bar scene here seemingly took forever to develop. But in the last decade, it has burst into bloom... More >>
littlefork Review: If You're Craving New England in Los Angeles, Jason Travi's Restaurant Is the Place To Be It's also a great place to get a drink in Hollywood
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March 21, 2013
You always want the thing you cannot have. This is the only explanation I've been able to come up with for the recent proliferation, here on the... More >>
Bar Ama Review: Josef Centeno Provides a Playful Mashup of Tex-Mex and Mexican The downtown restaurant gives new life to a cuisine long derided as a culinary bastard
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March 14, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos from Bar Amá.
In a country full of culinary hybrids, Tex-Mex is perhaps the biggest bastard of them all, the... More >>
Alma Review: This Downtown Restaurant May Be the One You've Been Waiting For
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March 07, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Alma.
On the somewhat barren corner of Broadway and Olympic, under a giant light-up sign for a next-door... More >>
The Hart and the Hunter Review: The Palihotel's Restaurant Gives Southern Food the Small-Plates Treatment The result is delightful
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February 21, 2013
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It's a tough thing to be a biscuit lover in Los Angeles. In recent months, I've... More >>
The Parish Review: Casey Lane's Downtown Gastropub Is Gorgeous But the food doesn't always measure up to the setting
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February 07, 2013
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There's a lot to be said for atmosphere.
The Parish, chef Casey Lane's gastropub that opened in... More >>
Porchetta Hits L.A.: The Mysteries of Pigsburgh Porchetta is the thing to eat right now -- but deep roots belie its current trendiness
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January 31, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of porchetta.
Walk into a remarkable number of L.A. restaurants these days, particularly on certain... More >>
Le Ka, Voila! Remi Lauvand's new downtown spot has much to recommend it -- but tries to do just a bit too much
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January 24, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Le Ka.
Le Ka could have been built as a set. It could be a backdrop for a meet-cute moment in one of those... More >>
Black Hogg Down Chef Eric Park is packing in diners in Silver Lake, but he's not ready for prime time
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January 17, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Black Hogg.
Oh, dude food, what have you wrought?
A few years ago, at the beginning of the chef revolution,... More >>
BierBeisl Brings Something Different to Beverly Hills Austrian chef Bernhard Mairinger has brilliantly old-school technique
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January 10, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Bierbeisl.
Since its opening last February, much has been made of BierBeisl, Bernhard Mairinger's... More >>
Bestia Does It Best This new Italian restaurant on the edge of downtown does everything well
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January 03, 2013
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Bestia.
Salumi, pasta and pizza: This is the holy trinity of the current trend toward rustic Italian... More >>
Seeing Stars: A Five-Star Rating System for L.A. Restaurants The L.A. Weekly will assign star ratings to restaurant reviews in 2013
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December 27, 2012
In April, while I was in Los Angeles for a whirlwind 32-hour tour of the city and to interview for the position of the Weekly's restaurant... More >>
Hipster Heaven Cortez might seem like a parody of current food trends -- if only it weren't so good
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December 20, 2012
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Cortez.
In 2009, New York wunderkind David Chang famously referred to California cuisine as "figs on a... More >>
Spago Has L.A. Feeling Puckish Now, more than ever, Wolfgang Puck's signature restaurant is a must-try
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December 13, 2012
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Reinvention. It's a concept that has eluded many of our temples of fine dining... More >>
M.A.K.E. Likes It Raw And you might too, when you try Matthew Kenney's Santa Monica Place restaurant
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December 06, 2012
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of M.A.K.E.
In his 2010 book Catching Fire, primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that cooking is the activity... More >>
MessHall Reviewed This Los Feliz hot spot is a stylish riff on the summer camp of your childhood
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November 29, 2012
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of MessHall.
A few years ago, while walking down Brunswick Street, the hippest of hip streets in the painfully... More >>
Nobu Malibu Review The oceanfront sushi restaurant has a beautiful new home – and the same classics that made Nobu Matsuhisa famous
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November 15, 2012
Is there a chef more influential to Los Angeles cuisine than Nobu Matsuhisa? Is there an L.A. chef more influential to American cuisine? An... More >>
Southern Cooking, Animal-Style Animal, Son of a Gun and the real takeaway of the Southern food trend
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November 08, 2012
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Southern cuisine.
On the evening of Oct. 18, the 15th annual Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium kicked... More >>
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Rustic Canyon Review: Chef Jeremy Fox Makes a Good Restaurant Even Better
It's the type of dish that might make a vegetarian weep: vibrant green, ultra-fresh stalks of late-spring asparagus, topped with a pert, sunny-side–up egg and surrounded by a smattering of… More >>
Corazon y Miel Review: Craft Cocktails and Creative Cooking Take Up Residence in a Surprising Place
Twenty years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that practically every small town in America would one day have an espresso bar. You could barely get a decent… More >>
Bludso's Review: A Compton Classic Comes to Hollywood
If acts of extreme eating hold some kind of (unfathomable) appeal for you, here's a meaty proposition I recently tackled in the line of duty: barbecue at Bludso's in Compton… More >>
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