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A dish from Molonay Tubilderborst (left)

Molonay Tubilderborst Pops Up at Senor Fish on Friday

Molonay Tubilderborst, the oddly named pocket restaurant we told you about last month from Black Cat Bakery chef Nick Coe, launches this Friday. More an embedded mini-restaurant than a temporal pop-up (Coe hopes), Molonay Tubilderborst splits the Little Tokyo location of Senor Fish into two sections: one with fish tacos,......
Alain Giraud (left) in the kitchen at Anisette Brasserie.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Maison Giraud Opening Very Soon

If you caught this weekend's episode of Good Food on KCRW, you'll know that Laura Avery who does the Market Report for the show ran into chef Alain Giraud -- "with his signature sweater and shopping bag" -- at the Santa Monica Farmers Market. The French chef told Avery that......
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Laurent Quenioux's 18-Course Truffle Menu

Chef Laurent Quenioux's highbrow/lowbrow collaboration with Starry Kitchen reaches new heights of luxury with an 18-course truffle dinner. Between touring the city with his cheese cart, overseeing the kitchen at Vertical Wine Bistro and hosting monthly LQ@SK dinners, Quenioux will be preparing wood pigeon from Scotland, a veal sweetbread and......
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Halloween Roundup: Candy, Pumpkin, Beer, Pumpkin Beer + More

Stop trying to fight Halloween. Revel in the candy-coated madness of it all. From pumpkins to pumpkin beer, from candy to cookbooks, we've got your Halloween food needs covered. Tomorrow, we can all move on... to Dia de los Muertos.Top 5 Pumpkin Beers: Drink Up, Pumpkin KingsTop 5 Halloween Treats......
Nancy Silverton as a pumpkin.; Credit: Bi-Rite Creamery

Nancy Silverton on a Pumpkin

Nancy Silverton has been carved into a pumpkin and not as part sort of horrific Saw sequel but as an artistic homage sure to last throughout the ages -- or at least until the pumpkin rots. The hipster geniuses at San Francisco's Bi-Rite Creamery created the best piece of food......
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Culinary Bachelors Dating Show: Apply Now!

Single and looking for love in all the wrong kitchens? Pilgrim Studios (producers of Dirty Jobs, American Chopper and My Fair Wedding) is seeking a chef, restaurateur, gourmand, food writer or serious culinary enthusiast who's also an attention whore and wants to star his own dating show on "a major,......
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Monday Morning Food News: Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween. Here's the food news you need to know this fine morning. The rise & fall (& return?) of Mr. Jelly Belly. Barney's Beanery has ghosts, maybe. Alton Brown on hosting Iron Chef & the end of Good Eats Chocolate's bittersweet legacy: slave labor and child abuse. Stone Age......
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Find Debbie Lee's Restaurant, Win $100

Be the first person to figure out where Debbie Lee is opening the brick-and-mortar location of Ahn Joo Snack Bar (already rolling around LA as a food truck since last year), and you could win a $100 gift certificate to the place. The Korean pub grub concept officially opens on......
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Downtown L.A. Halloween Bar Crawl [Photo Gallery]

In Los Angeles, even the bars get dressed up for Halloween. This year, all eight of the downtown L.A. bars owned by Cedd Moses -- Casey's, Cole's, Las Perlas, Tony's, Cana, Broadway Bar, The Golden Gopher and Seven Grand -- are competing against each other to see which bar can......
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My Drunk Kitchen: Halloween Candy [Video]

In the Halloween episode of My Drunk Kitchen, Hannah Hart goes from zero to drunk in 60 seconds (less, actually) as she pairs a Bloody Mary with whatever she pulls from her candy bowl. Despite her inebriation, she speaks truth to sugar, dropping profound insights: Tootsie Rolls: "Ugh. This is......