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Santa Barbara spot prawns at Providence; Credit: A. Scattergood

89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 89: Live Santa Barbara Spot Prawns at Providence. Providence is the sort of place where you expect to be impressed, perhaps even astonished. Michael......
Regier Family Farms Castlebrite apricots; Credit: A. Scattergood

June at L.A. Farmers Markets: Your Virtual Grocery List

It's June at Los Angeles farmers markets, which means a surfeit of spectacular stone fruit -- cherries, peaches, apricots, pluots, nectarines, plums, one could go on -- plus artichokes and lettuces, citrus and berries, and the beginning of what will doubtless be many, many tomatoes. And because road trips are......
Bäzole at Bäco Mercat; Credit: A. Scattergood

91: Baco Mercat's Bazole

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 91: Bäco Mercat's Bäzole. If you pull up a chair at Bäco Mercat, Josef Centeno's downtown restaurant -- a beautiful collection of brick and......
roasted new potatoes at Post  Credit: Anne Fishbein

In Which Besha Rodell Considers Govind Armstrong's Post & Beam

In this week's review, Besha Rodell considers Post & Beam, Govind Armstrong's Baldwin Hills restaurant. Armstrong has a long history in this town (Spago, Campanile, Chadwick's, Table 8, 8 Oz.) and the opening of his latest project was a homecoming of sorts. For him. For us all. And now, Post......
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Read This Now, or Almost Now: Lucky Peach Issue 4

It is now time for your regular Lucky Peach update. Because we love David Chang as much as you do, perhaps even more so after his recent pit stop at UCLA. (Dinner afterwards? At A-Frame with Jonathan Gold, Peter Meehan and Amy Rowat, if you keep track of these kinds......