A perfect Pie Hole pie Former Eveleigh GM Sean Brennan opened The Pie Hole today in Downtown, across the street from Wurstkuche in The Arts District. Is there anything you don’t already love about that name? Do you think employees will say “time to shut our pie hole” each night? Anyway, we predicted that pie [...]
October 19, 2011 | Posted in
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"The 13 Days of Halloween" start on Wednesday at Village Bakery & Cafe in Atwater Village. On each of the 13 days leading up to Halloween, the neighborhood bakery offers a different scary treat. By Halloween Day, all 13 will be available. It's sort of like an Advent calendar for Halloween rendered in baked goods [...]
October 19, 2011 | Posted in
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Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant criticDear Mr. Gold: What’s your favorite place to eat Hue/Central Vietnam food in Los Angeles? Also, do you ever venture down to the O.C. for some eats?
October 19, 2011 | Posted in
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Corn syrup is accused of false advertising, the link between amniotic fluid and taste, and Jonathan Gold scores a highly sought seat at LA’s hottest new restaurant.
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Now open in Ventura Beverly Hills: The Beverly WIlshire is offering an avant-garde eating experience under chef Gilles Arzur, along with spa treatments, for $1,500. [Squid Ink]“ Downtown: Joseph Centeno’s Baco Mercat is opening later this month with six beers on tap, drinking shrub, and Handsome Coffee. The chef will also sell his own handmade [...]
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Everyone has their favorite fall fruit. For some, it's persimmons; others love apples or pears. For me, it's the quince, oddball fruit that it is. When I spotted the first ones of the year at the Long Beach farmers market Sunday, I felt like running up and down hollering, "The quince are here! The quince [...]
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Daniel DrennonBeachwood pint and growlerTwenty-four guest beers rotate. Julian Shrago brews 12 excellent in-house beers and charges less for these beers because there’s no shipping. Beachwood
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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• Smoked foie gras, liquified foie gras, and foie gras on brownies. Read all about the ban-defying dinner collaboration between Ludo, Jon Shook, and Vinny Dotolo at Animal right here. [NYT] • Achieving a sustainable meat supply might mean everyone would have to learn to love tripe. [Word of Mouth/Guardian UK] • McDonald’s is launching [...]
October 17, 2011 | Posted in
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Amelia Posada and Erika Nakamura are owners and operators of Lindy & Grundy Meats, a new old-fashioned butcher shop on Fairfax Avenue. Pasadena native Amelia met Erika, who's from Tokyo, while in New York. Soon after, a romantic relationship developed and their culinary adventures began. After attending the French Culinary Institute, Erika worked at an [...]
October 17, 2011 | Posted in
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L.A. Beer Week is actually two weeks this year, so there’s still time to catch some hopping events. It’s true many of the great beer stops (Naja’s, Beachwood Brewery, etc.) are a couple of DUIs down the freeway for most of us, but that’s no reason to miss beer week. Here’s a few choice [...]
October 16, 2011 | Posted in
Eating L.A. |
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