Ben Mesirow

If you have cruised past First and Beaudry at night in the past couple weeks, you will have noticed that the parking lot on the Southeast corner of the intersection, once home to what many consider the best tacos in L.A., is now depressingly empty. There are no lines, no......

School is back in session, college and pro football is upon us, and in some places that means fall is right around the corner. Cooler weather, heartier food, sweaters (though we hear sweater vests are out this season), and a decreased need for cold beer. Here, however, we're getting hit......

In recent years the Japanese people have displayed a radical and unique sense of style and an amazing ability to innovate and create in fields as diverse as clothing, video games, game shows, and urination technology, among others. It should come as no surprise, then, that they also have a......

Every so often something triggers in us a wistful sort of Anglophilia. It could be a movie, a book, or a tasty glass of warm, flat beer that gives us this phony nostalgia, but the craving it brings is usually (and unsurprisingly) for English food. This week, instead of rushing......

The Place: Xlixe Pizzeria, 432 E 2nd Street, Los Angeles; (213) 620-0513. The Hours: Monday through Friday 4-7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday all day. The Deals: $4 pints, $5 sangria, $4 wings, and assorted appetizers $1-1.5 The Digs: The brand new pizza joint is right at the end of a......

In the barbecue-filled summers of our youth, the masters of the grill were the greatest heroes. They took massive hunks of bright red oozing meat and, through some glorious alchemy, turned it into fragrant brown burgers, tri-tip, carne asada, and ribs. And though some of the mystic awe has faded......

Much has been made lately of L.A.'s beer revolution, from hilarious and awesome drunken rants by Greg of Stone to posts on this very blog and well beyond. However, the true measuring stick must be the beer itself, and what better stick than the West Coast's signature style, the IPA......

The internet has allowed for the dissemination of stupidity at a rate greater than anyone could have imagined. Witness (now ex-) UCLA student Alexandra Wallace. Her rant, ostensibly about Asians talking on cell phones in the library but touching on subjects as questionably diverse as the closeness of Asian families......

Despite what legions of new restaurants and food trucks would have you think, it takes a little more than just sticking something in a French roll to call it a fusion bánh mì, and throwing Indian food in a tortilla doesn't make it Mexican fusion. It seems like everyone with......

There was a time when pairing Slurpee flavors with Sour Patch Kids by their color was considered a gourmet marijuana experience. Discovering the perfect addition to your badly stirred bowl of mac 'n cheese (yup, it's fruity pebbles) was a master stroke of cannabis culinary brilliance. These days though, with......