If you prefer to avoid the restaurant hoopla on New Year’s eve (we sure do), this city is thick with resources for great stay-at-home food and drink. Maybe this year you’re feeling more like serving a heaping platter of pastrami with local beer, or a pile of tamales with pomegranate margaritas? And if you’re the [...]
Last week we offered up a few ideas to satisfy the eaters on your list this holiday season. Here is our last-minute gift list for those who always politely decline the home-baked slice of pie but can’t go a day without a cup or three of organic coffee or a bottle of good red wine. [...]
Shopping local is easy in small towns where most folks probably know the only candy maker by first name. But with so many great food businesses in Los Angeles, finding a staring point is often the hardest part. Are you looking for a classic, like English toffee, or are your friends more likely to get [...]
We had to share a few more photos from the great publication party for EAT: Los Angeles 2010, which you can now find at your local bookstore or market (or online at Traveler’s Bookcase). Here are a couple of links to blog reports from the Traveler’s Bookcase shindig, which was a celebration of L.A. street [...]
If you had asked the typical Pasadenans who have frequented the Huntington Hotel dining room at any point in the last 100 years if the hotel’s chef would someday be a tattooed, bad-boy national TV star who makes things like lemongrass-scallion froth, they would have popped you on the head with their Wall Street Journals. [...]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a keg of ale to bottle and pass out to your friends this holiday season? Yeah, we wish we had taken up home brewing last year, too. It’s a bit late for fermenting this year, but if you join one of the many local home brew clubs now, [...]
December 9, 1984. That’s the night Evan Kleiman opened Angeli Caffé on Melrose. We shouted our praises a few months ago, but if you still haven’t stopped by, Kleiman is sweetening the deal with a 25th anniversary celebration that lasts through the end of next year. As of December 1, you can grab a three-course [...]
We had to pass along this blog report from Donna Myrow, publisher of the nonprofit, teen-written newspaper L.A. Youth, detailing a recent outing at Farmers Market, where security guards would not let her give her uneaten food to a homeless person — even when she invited the hungry person in question to sit at her table. [...]
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