Daina Beth Solomon

Fiesta Fridays Every third Friday of the month, food vendors set up shop at the weekly Boyle Heights farmers market at Mariachi Plaza. Live music from singers, bands and DJs completes the fiesta. WHAT: Fiesta Fridays WHEN: Friday, Feb. 15, 5-10 p.m. WHERE: Mariachi Plaza,1836 E. First St., Boyle Heights......

The Lazy Ox Canteen is known for many things: The New American menu peppered with global influences. A soundtrack booming with The Animals and Soft Cell. The compact dining room outfitted with naked light bulbs and a pair of ox horns. Its unassuming setting -- a calm Little Tokyo street......

Pasadena PinotFest Grand Tasting Praise the pinot! That's the theme of this tasting event, now in its sixth year. Sample 200 pinot noirs from California and Oregon wineries, including several exclusive to PinotFest. Also enjoy food courtesy of Noir Food & Wine and Altadena Town & Country Club. WHAT: PinotFest......

"Save the Waves" Fundraiser Support the Long Beach chapter of the Surfrider Foundation, an environmental advocacy group, with a multicourse, seafood-centric dinner from local chefs. The menu includes albacore tartare (from David LeFevre and Ray Hayashi of Manhattan Beach Post), smoked trout with kumquats (Chris Krajacic of Pier 76), lobster......

Little Tokyo's array of ramen eateries attests to the dish's versatility -- and booming popularity. There's Daikokuya's rich pork broth. Shin-Sen-Gumi's thin, Hakata-style noodles. The blended soy-pork broth of Men Oh Tokushima. Orochon's super spicy "Special #2." Possibly two dozen types at Mr. Ramen. Plus the noodles at Japanese-Chinese diners......

Trattoria Neapolis Cooking Class Join Trattoria Neapolis chef Bryant Wigger to create Italian-inspired dishes described as "winter favorites": pumpkin soup, parmigiano sformato, ahi tuna, pasta carbonara (with black truffles), and a salad of squash, fregola and calamari. You'll sip wine and sample the dishes as you learn, and finish with......

National Peking Duck Day at WP24 Want a round of "Duck, Duck, Goose?" No, not the game but a meal of Peking-style roasted duckling, followed by a chocolate goose egg. It's on the books at Wolfgang Puck's Chinese-inspired WP24 in honor of National Peking Duck Day. WP24 carves and serves......

Wine 101 at San Antonio Winery Let the San Antonio Winery wine, dine and educate you during a four-course lunch in the barrel-lined Vintage Room. Each course is precisely paired with vino, and Michael Papalia will be on hand to discuss grape growing, wine making and, of course, drinking. Register......

The pastrami sandwich at Langer's Delicatessen is legendary. So delicious that it made our "100 Favorite Dishes" list. So distinctive that Nora Ephron deemed it "the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world." So beloved that Angelenos regularly queue up for a taste -- and out-of-towners bemoan their loss. But......

Josef Centeno dubbed his new restaurant "Bar Amá" in homage to the foods his mother, grandmother and great-grandmother cooked in his native San Antonio, Texas. (Amá is short for mamá.) But don't expect a replica of their kitchens. "It's the food I grew up with, but my version," says the......