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See also: 7 Best Bloody Marys In L.A. On this day in 1516, Queen Mary I of England was born, the daughter of King Henry VIII and his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Why do we care? Because booze -- duh. Queen Mary would eventually earn the title......

Updated at the bottom with a recent statement from Maker's Mark announcing it's reversing its decision. Originally posted at 9:25 a.m. on 2/11/13. Making bourbon takes time. Years and years in fact. So when demand rises quickly, bourbon makers can't do much to react to that demand except start the......

Amateur night. It's the term used in the restaurant business for New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, and often Friday and Saturday nights. They're the nights when people come out who don't usually eat out. Waiters, especially snarky jaded waiters, as well as many chefs, hate these nights because they expect......

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, we talk to Josh Loeb, co-chef/owner with his wife, Zoe Nathan, of Rustic Canyon, Huckleberry and Milo & Olive, about where the two eat......

Yesterday, Bon Appetit magazine put out a list of the 20 most important restaurants in the country. These are the restaurants, according to the magazine, that: ...define how we eat out. They're the fearless spots that drive chefs to innovate, restaurateurs to imitate, and the rest of us to line......

You might assume that The Parish, subject of this week's restaurant review, is a temple to meaty fatty things, being a gastropub and all. And you wouldn't be far off -- there are plenty of chicken livers and fried fish items and things made out of pig parts on this......

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. If you've ever had the feeling that the awful quality of airline food has very little to do with......

This week's review considers The Parish, Casey Lane's downtown gastropub which opened last summer. You can read the full review here, or see below for the cheat sheet. Food: Lane sites the great gastropubs of the world as his inspiration: St. John in London, The Spotted Pig in New York......