A little birdie landed in our email to clue us into the rumor that the Dolce Group’s hotspot Les Deux is now closed in Hollywood. Though no one is picking up the phone there, not too strange for a nightclub at this hour, the freshest user-review on Yelp claims the club is closed permanently following [...]
In July, The Wall Street Journal published a lengthy piece on the publishing industry’s quest for the next international thriller sensation à la Stieg Larsson, and among the authors cited…
Los Angeles, you may have heard, is in the midst of a love affair with the food truck. The most recent episode in this fling—if it can still be called that—was last Saturday at the Rose Bowl, where a sold-out crowd of 5,000, including yours truly, showed up for the Los Angeles Street Food Festival’s [...]
We’re very fond of the New School of Cooking. We say so right here. Summer is something of a lazy season for them, what with the heat and the heat and the heat. To mitigate the burn of sun and oven, they’re offering a salve—for your wallet. Register for the third or fourth session (beginning [...]
Chinatown boutique Flock Shop has put quite the summer shindig together. The second annual “Make it Funky†Music & Arts Festival, formerly known as the Funk Rumble Block Party, is set for this Saturday in Central Plaza of Chinatown’s burgeoning arts district. Nominally we’re writing about it because there will be food trucks—Lomo Arigato, The [...]
Ramiro Arvizu and Jaime Martin del Campo are the chefs and owners of La Casita Mexicana, one of the best and most authentic Mexican restaurants in the city, if not the country. The two o…
Complete with revolving dessert case and comfy booths, Brent’s has the right deli look. I grew up eating at Nate ‘n Al’s, so that’s pretty much my reference point for delis. But the Chowhounds and everyone else say Brent’s Deli has an edge on Nate ‘n Al’s, so when I had to be near Northridge [...]
Ricky and his fish tacos StreetGourmetLA’s Bill Esparza is a street food experto and he knows his tacos like nobody’s business. In fact, he conducted a fish taco task force last year where Ricky’s Fish Tacos were named the top fish tacos in the area. In case you haven’t found Ricky on the street in [...]
This week on Off-Ramp, John Rabe, Kevin Ferguson and I ate at Slaw Dogs and talked about hot dogs—and there’s a whole lot more to hot dogs in L.A. than standing in a tourist-filled line at Pink’s. To listen to the podcast of our talk, click here for KPCC’s Off-Ramp site. Here’s our short list [...]
This one’s set to be a doozy. Why? Two words: crowd control. The Festival‘s previous iteration, like basically every other major street food event since the food truck renaissance began, was a zoo. Huge crowds and long lines, besides being unpleasant in and of themselves, are not conducive to sampling widely from the many culinary [...]
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