Cleo Tobbi

An extensive project exploring the history of L.A.'s restaurants has finally made its way into book form — and you can get a sneak peek of it Sunday when its editor and curator, Josh Kun, talks with chef Roy Choi at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Using the Los......

If you’ve recently had a hankering for wild boar, camel or other uncommon meat preparations, count your prayers answered. This coming Saturday, January 31, chef Robert “Bean” Castaneda will host a 12-course wild game tapas collaboration dinner at the former Coco Laurent location in downtown, with alternating courses of small-plate......

Non-dairy cheese is nothing new. Vegans and lactose-intolerant folk have been figuring out the best way to make a faux grilled cheese sandwich or mock quesadilla for some time and it was only a matter of time before someone — naturally, an L.A. someone — thought to create a vegan-cheese......

It’s not every time that a night out for drinks leads to lessons of the beginning of fermentation, the cause and effect of Prohibition and the current state of cocktails in America. However, for the Museum of the American Cocktail, an evening revolving around how and why we imbibe, while......

Since last April, shoppers at L.A.'s Sprouts Farmers Markets may have noticed a bizarre new product moving in next to the coconut water. It's name? Maple water. Yes, maple as in Canada's leafy flag. And water as in that basic life-giving liquid, which we've been hyping up for the last......

Pascal Baudar wakes up every morning at 5 a.m. to shop for his food and beer ingredients. He doesn’t rise early to beat lines or make sure he has the first pick of hops or grain at the home-brew store. Where he goes, he needn’t a club membership or credit......

Craft beer from a 22-ounce bottle doesn't usually come to mind when picturing a tasting menu of the best in Spanish haute cuisine, but it might after next week when Oregon's Deschutes Brewery releases Zarabanda, a new saison brewed in collaboration with the tapas king himself, José Andrés. Three years of......

For four sessions stretched out over two days in a warehouse at Crafted at the Port of Los Angeles last weekend, Shelton Brothers — an East Coast alcohol-distribution company — hosted a beer festival so epic, it actually deserved its simple title: The Festival. Partly an excuse to showcase their......

One-year anniversaries call for a certain special celebration. Any time a small business, especially a restaurant, to makes it through its first year, some booze and good vibes are definitely deserved. So when we heard that Bread & Barley in downtown Covina plans to celebrate its first anniversary with not......