If you, like us, can never get your fill of moussaka, spanakopita, kalamata olives, gyros and baklava, and if seeing My Big Fat Greek Wedding 47 times hasn’t tired you of saying, “Opa!” over and over, then you’ll want to spend a Memorial weekend afternoon or evening at the annual Valley Greek Festival, an impressive [...]
There’s much exhibit in Topanga this week, as locals get ready for the launch of the Topanga Canyon Certified Farrmers’ Market. No longer will residents of this isolated bit of mountain paradise have to drive down to Santa Monica for their Lily’s eggs, Weiser Family Farm melons and Santiago Farms berries. The market will take [...]
No bones about it, the Tar Pit’s just-announced happy hour menu of drinks and snacks might ease your work-to-play transition beautifully. The sleek ’30s-supper-club-style bar-with-food, opened about six months ago by Campanile’s Mark Peel and Jay Perrin, offers a small selection of $6 classic cocktails (about half price) and a revolving “Aperitivo of the Week” [...]
It’s easy enough to shop locally for produce at farmers’ markets. Things are a little trickier when you’re keen on finding an interesting locally produced relish to jazz up your burgers, or maybe a homegrown barbecue sauce to toss into a gift box (Father’s Day is right around the corner). One of our favorite markets [...]
Café Pinot‘s popular and personable executive chef, Kevin Meehan, is returning to Venice’s St. Joseph Center to teach a class called Learn How to Prepare an Elegant, Seasonal Meal. Proceeds from the cooking class go to support St. Joseph’s Culinary Training Program, a ten-week vocational class designed to help unemployed men and women get job [...]
In case you missed it (we almost did), it is officially American Craft Beer Week. Several bars around town are offering pint specials on brews from SoCal’s artisan producers, but the hands-down best deal we’ve found that features a diverse sipping selection — essential, because we are talking about craft beer — is at Blue [...]
Attention South Bay locals: If you love seeking out, eating, making and/or talking about good food and drink, please join us at the wonderful new bookstore Pages in Manhattan Beach on Wednesday night. Several of the EAT: Los Angeles team, including Linda Burum, Miles Clements, Amelia Saltsman and Colleen Dunn Bates, will be on hand [...]
EAT: LA’s relationship with the KPCC show Off-Ramp deepened this week with the launching of a new podcast. Host John Rabe will be regularly posting new EAT: LA/Off-Ramp podcasts, chatting with one of our team of savvy food journalists about L.A.’s best resources for food lovers. You can read his post and hear the podcast [...]
With so many great bakers, confectioners and pastry chefs in Los Angeles, it’s impossible to resist that nagging sweet tooth for very long. And who would want to? But given that we’re on the verge of summer, and yeah, we’re putting on the shorts, tees and sundresses, we wanted to find out what desserts our [...]
You know summer has arrived when the Strawberry Festival rolls around. California produces 88% of the country’s strawberries, so let’s be proud of our monopoly and celebrate with everyone’s favorite red berry. The Oxnard festival, a 26-year tradition, has more than 300 arts and crafts booths (many related to strawberries), strawberry cooking demonstrations and strawberry [...]
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