Q: What’s jokbal? A: Tasty Korean-style braised pork foot and shank. And now, a renowned jokbal restaurant from Seoul—known as Jangchung-Dong Wong Jokbal—has opened a satellite restaurant in Los Angeles’s Koreatown. It all started when the restaurant owner came to Los Angeles several years ago, pleasurepalate says, bringing with her a sample of her famous [...]
January 31, 2012 | Posted in
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Hollywood’s Kitchen 24, opening Monday in West Hollywood Citywide: SinoSoul’s Tony Chen recommends 10 great Chinese eating establishments not in the SGV. [Eater] Downtown: Cole’s is offering mini French dips for the Super Bowl, priced at $60 for an order of six, including a six-pack of Golden Road beer, a side of slaw and a [...]
January 31, 2012 | Posted in
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Panel + soba: Common Grains will host a panel discussion at Atwater Crossing on Sunday, featuring grain miller and farmer Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills in South Carolina and Monica Spiller from the Whole Grain Connection, a nonprofit aiming to enhance the desirability of organic and sustainable grains. Other grain experts also will speak, and [...]
January 31, 2012 | Posted in
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Flickr/WayTruSix EU countries have outlawed genetically modified corn. Occupy cornfields! Support is growing for a petition calling for the ouster of Michael Taylor, a senior adviser for the FD
January 31, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Parisian-style macarons, displayed like objets d’art, in the shop formerly known as Paulette (they dropped the ‘Pau’ after a trademark tussle). WHAT French macarons are not the dumpling-style macaroons (normally made of coconut) that we see in the U.S. These are light, tender-crisp sandwich-style cookies that look rather like colorful, miniature hamburgers, except the [...]
January 31, 2012 | Posted in
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Can’t wait until Common Grains launches its Soba-Ya Restaurant in late February in Torrance? Want to see what happens when artisanal Japanese buckwheat soba noodles meet the modern cuisine of recently-opened Cooks County? On Wednesday night, Common Grains, a collaboration between soba maker Sonoko Sakai and rice company Shinmei, hosts a pop-up East Meets West [...]
January 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Bottega Louie, at the crossroads Downtown continues to bring it when it comes to exciting new restaurants and now Brigham Yen reports on the rise of a secondary “restaurant row,” growing aside the restaurant-dense 7th Street stretch that manifested over the years. Yen next readies the city center for Industriel, a new French concept coming [...]
January 30, 2012 | Posted in
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Bottega Louie, at the crossroads Downtown continues to bring it when it comes to exciting new restaurants and now Brigham Yen reports on the rise of a secondary “restaurant row,” growing aside the restaurant-dense 7th Street stretch that manifested over the years. Yen next readies the city center for Industriel, a new French concept coming [...]
January 30, 2012 | Posted in
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It's that time of year: time to start thinking about giving sweets to the sweet. Le Bon Garcon, the L.A. caramel maker founded by pastry chef Justin Chao, has Valentine's Day gift boxes featuring a new caramel flavor called Caramour that gets its subtle pink tinge from blood orange puree. Chao, who graduated from Ecole [...]
January 30, 2012 | Posted in
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AmmoThe Blood Orange Fizz.Already known for its clean, California-inspired menu, Ammo hopes to be known for its alcoholic libations as well. Tomorrow, the Highland Avenue restaurant officially
January 30, 2012 | Posted in
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