Burgers are a form of currency for Los Angeles. We trade in Apple Pan’s and In-N-Out’s, and pay good deeds forward with meals at Father’s Office or Pie N’ Burger. We talk about burgers as we talk about the stock market or the weather, our not-so-secret point of domination against......
Tourists have long been flocking to Melrose Avenue, ducking happily into the street’s many boutique shops, thrift stores, salons and theaters. There have always been restaurants to feed those crowds, of course, but most come with a touristy edge to them, set up as quick-service concepts catering to little more......
The James Beard Foundation has continued to make inroads into the Southern California market over the years, picking up on Los Angeles’ years of producing quality culinary talent and unrivaled restaurants while doling out lifetime achievement awards to the city’s biggest chefs (read: Nancy Silverton). They’ve even begun to migrate......
Brouwerij West is such a known name in the Belgian-style beer community, it's easy to forget their nomadic nature and under-the-radar local presence. Despite his Southern California base, owner Brian Mercer has been taking his artistically-minded craft brewery on a four year journey up and down the California coast, gypsy......
The progressive northward expansion of Baja’s culinary influence has already landed on the shores of L.A. This year’s Tacolandia hosted a handful of Baja legends, including La Guerrerense and Tacos Kokopelli, while plenty of L.A. chefs have made their way south to learn and collaborate with luminaries named Javier Plascencia,......
Ask ten chefs about the effectiveness of culinary school versus apprenticeships, and you’re likely to receive 30 different answers. Most can’t agree with themselves, let alone each other, about the usefulness of extended culinary training programs that chew up bank accounts as fast as any high-end college, while spitting out......
What do you call a pop-up when it's being run by the same staff and owners as the restaurant it's taking over — Alma — which itself began life as a pop-up? A pop-within? A pop-up²? Whatever the title, expect Alma's latest mid-September one-night menu change to be spelled P-A-T-T-Y......
In an ongoing effort to make the world's residents forget how to accomplish even the most basic tasks, America’s technology sector has decided that normal humans can’t possibly cook for themselves without the use of Google Glass and a fuckload of apps. Or at least one app: LiveLens, which recently......
It's summer sour season at Mohawk Bend. The Echo Park purveyor of California craft beers is planning to ramp up their seasonal offerings with a run of sour beers, those often rose-colored pours that tend to be a little tart, fruity and, well, sour. Beginning June 22 and running through September, the......
Attention archeologists of the future: If you find yourself sorting through the rubble of post-America, trying to figure out what led to our downfall, here's a tip - check Burbank. While not exactly a cultural touchpoint on its own, Burbank has of late become ground zero for a very particular......
