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Eva: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Eva is the sort of restaurant you never want to leave, not only in the sense that you want to linger over the plates of Wagyu beef and charred leeks, the bowls of fennel soup with raw spot prawns and toasted buckwheat, the perfectly ripe melon that chef-owner Mark Gold......
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Go's Mart: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Do you want to drive miles across the far northwestern reaches of the San Fernando Valley only to find yourself parked in a decrepit Canoga Park strip mall searching for a "sushi" sign near a tiny door, sandwiched between a Papa John's franchise and a foot massage parlor? Yeah, you......
Credit: PHOTO BY ANNE FISHBEIN

Il Grano: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Long before it became expected, as it is now, for a chef to troll his local farmers market every week, to grow his own heirloom tomatoes, to serve his precisely sourced fish without bothering to cook it, to spotlight family-made wines and olive oils and to present his beautifully articulated......
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IACP 2013 Food Writing Award Finalists Announced

The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- yes, that's an old joke now, but you try googling IACP and see what you get -- announced their 2013 award finalists this morning for four of their prestigious......
A.O.C.'s new location; Credit: Aaron Cook | AACK Studio

A.O.C. Reopens + Suzanne Goin's Balinese Suckling Pig

When Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne (Lucques, Tavern) announced late last year that they were closing their wine-and-small-plates restaurant A.O.C. to reopen in a different location, we might normally assume a months-long transition period, while we all waited for permits and whatnot and dreamed nostalgic dreams about Goin's black rice......
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Porchetta Hits L.A.: The Mysteries of Pigsburgh

See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of porchetta. Walk into a remarkable number of L.A. restaurants these days, particularly on certain chef-designated nights, and you'll be overwhelmed by the ode to pig that is porchetta. Read the menus, calligraphied on beautiful paper or scrawled on chalkboards, and you'll find that......