Going out to eat and shop for food as a celebrity must be pretty weird. Probably as strange as spotting Carole Brady brunching at Cafe del Rey is for us common folk. Imagine being say, Halle Berry shopping for giant apples at Whole Foods, with photographers hiding behind the agave syrup display and snarky bloggers [...]
June 24, 2011 | Posted in
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With all the talk about eating locally grown food, you might think we wouldn't need reminding. But the California Legislature thinks otherwise: It has passed a resolution urging Californians to eat food grown in the state on Sundays. The resolution, passed Thursday by the Senate and earlier in the month by the Assembly, grew out [...]
June 24, 2011 | Posted in
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There’s nothing all that special about a frozen banana, but somehow, Bennett’s Ice Cream in the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax makes the best one. Maybe it’s the chunks of almonds as big as grave
June 24, 2011 | Posted in
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Kate McDermott is Art of The Pie in Seattle, Washington. Kate was featured in Seattle Magazine?s Best of 2010 and teaches many Pie Baking Workshops and Classes.
June 23, 2011 | Posted in
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“Since I don’t smoke, I decided to grow a mustache,” Salvador Dali said, years before L.A. had an ordinance against public puffing or entire cities dedicated to questionable facial growth. Next Wednesday, Angel’s Supper Club is throwing its “Summer Mustache Bash,” a free party that requires men (and women) to come mustachioed, whether it’s the [...]
June 23, 2011 | Posted in
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We're serving up something new: Later Thursday, the Daily Dish will switch from its current comments system to comments through Facebook. The new commenting system requires you to sign in through your Facebook account to leave a comment. People without Facebook accounts will not be able to leave comments. Now, that presents a problem for [...]
June 23, 2011 | Posted in
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Guzzle & NoshGrandma’s Treat milkshake (left), South of the Border float (middle), Aztec Mocha milkshake (right). You have a straw. GO Burger has a milkshake. You take your straw and drink thei
June 23, 2011 | Posted in
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This week on Off-Ramp, Miles Clements talks about the welcome trend of Vietnamese restaurants moving into the L.A. food mainstream, and Colleen, John Rabe and Kevin Ferguson sit down with Joseph Shuldiner to taste and talk about his homemade liqueurs—simple to make, and a great use for that excess summer produce. Click here to listen [...]
June 23, 2011 | Posted in
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Flat-iron steak tacos at Tinga Tinga has been open on La Brea near 2nd for nearly a year, but many people still haven’t noticed the tiny storefront with two tables outside near the larger Cafe Midi. Inspired by the approach of Santa Barbara’s La Super Rica, husband and wife team Chris and Jerry Baker didn’t [...]
June 22, 2011 | Posted in
Eating L.A. |
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Plan Check The shape of Sawtelle looks to be changing a bit these days. Safe and Save was recently shuttered after 40 years, fancy Cafe Tomo is now rocking the Avenue, while we wait for new stops for okonomiyaki, Mexican food, “snow cream,” and imported Japanese ramen empire Nidaime Tsujita. But an even more glaring [...]
June 22, 2011 | Posted in
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