Today's restaurant review focuses on Spago, Wolfgang Puck's newly remodeled restaurant in Beverly Hills. Read the full review, or take a quick tour of the facts, plus a few extras, below......
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Spago. Watch a Spago video. Reinvention. It's a concept that has eluded many of our temples of fine dining in recent years. Call it tradition, obstinance or even a lack of resources, but the plan of action for many in the old guard......
See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of Cortez. In 2009, New York wunderkind David Chang famously referred to California cuisine as "figs on a plate." It was a call to creativity but also a jab at the type of cooking that reveres produce and simplicity above all else, which takes......
Would you drink your Fritos? How about potato chips? Beer nuts? You may get a chance, because PepsiCo, looking to diversify it's market, is planning to turn snacks into drinks. The Financial Times reports on the remarks of PepsiCo chief executive Indra Nooyi, who said "The fact that PepsiCo is......
There's no question that Silver Lake lost one of its most beloved cultural touchstones when the Other Side, the gay piano bar with a 40-year-plus history, closed in June. Patrons weren't much soothed when the news came that a sports bar and family-friendly restaurant would replace the bar, as well......
You may have heard that a few weeks back, the LA City Council voted unanimously to adopt "Meatless Monday," a nation-wide campaign to urge people to give up meat one day a week. What does this mean, exactly? Well, thankfully, as foxnews.com put it, "Neither city officials nor law enforcement......
Eddie Huang and VICE's latest episode from their web series Fresh Off The Boat debuts today, and the subject is Los Angeles. This is the first of two episodes that will be about our fair city. In this episode, Huang focuses on the Persian community in Little Tehran. Watch the......
Last week we asked for suggestions about what might be the most underrated pie in Los Angeles. We took stock of the answers, picked the ones that A) Seemed worthy, and B) Seemed possibly underrated (sorry, folks, Apple Pan doesn't really fit the bill), and came up with this list......
Public School 310, a concept that started in a Daily Grill location downtown, is opening their first freestanding gastropub today in Culver City. If things go well for the restaurant you can expect to see more Public School locations nationwide. The Daily Grill already has 29 locations around the country,......
It's that time of year when chain restaurants report their year-end earnings and industry rags scramble to report and explain all that went right and wrong for the industry over the past 12 months. People in boardrooms ponder these lessons, and sit around trying to think up ways to gain......
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