Ben Mesirow

In December of last year, we told you to pucker up for a sour kiss from the mad geniuses behind award-winning Beachwood BBQ and Brewing. On Nov. 1, that kiss finally arrives – Beachwood is releasing the first two brews from its wild-beer offshoot, Beachwood Blendery. (Wild beers are brewed......

There comes a point in life at which we must acknowledge the contentious relationship between good and bad breakfast burritos. You might feel nostalgia for the hungover Sundays of youth, when you could wolf down a toddler-sized breakfast burrito with impunity, but it's time to admit it — nostalgia never......

Los Angeles County breweries won two medals at this year's Great American Beer Festival over the weekend, far fewer than in the last few years, when Beachwood BBQ and Brewing in Long Beach won multiple awards, including Best Brewpub. Beachwood earned a silver medal for Mocha Machine, which makes this Beachwood's......

Walking into a coffee shop these days can feel a lot like going to church. There is a hush in the air, a chilly reverence, specially purified water, a holier-than-thou attitude, ceaseless moralizing, a naturally lit space with sweeping architectural gestures and a man in a ceremonial vest standing behind......

There has been plenty of well-publicized research about the potential health benefits of beer. We’ve heard that it has electrolytes, it has antioxidants, it has cardiovascular and mental benefits, and it has even been brewed specifically as an aphrodisiac. Now Dr. Jekyll’s, a new craft brewery based in Altadena, is brewing with......

These days, when word gets out about a new restaurant on York, it comes with a set of expectations: exposed brick and beams, precious little terrariums, Edison bulbs casting wholly insufficient light, mismatched thrift-store cutlery, and trucker-hatted and gratuitously mustachioed brohemian dudes with their meticulously unkempt girlfriends. And then there......

I was walking around a park near downtown last week with a friend in from Texas. We strolled on gritty paths through scrubby chaparral, past fragrant sage and dog shit and a seriously underwhelming man-made waterfall. My friend grew up in L.A., as did I, but now she lives in......

Are there people out there who don’t spend their days wondering about Missed Taco-nnections? People who don’t think for a second about which rare cut of pork they could have found if only they had walked another half block, the joy they might have known if they had pulled over......