Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant criticDear Mr. Gold: I was wondering if you had any ideas for a place to eat after 10 p.m. in Little Tokyo or downtown. We’re meeting a group of people for
For selfportrait93, this is a special time of year: “[A]ll the pumpkins are gone from sight and everyone is looking forward to a season of eating, reunions, and holidays,” which marks the moment when The Monastery of the Angels begins baking its “famous pumpkin bread.” The Monastery of the Angels, in case you didn’t know, [...]
Ray’s chef Kris Morningstar To celebrate their recent shout-outs by John Mariani in Esquire, chefs from Ray’s and Stark Bar, Sotto, and Playa are teaming up for a three-part dinner, with a separate collaborative six-course menu coming to each of the restaurants over the next three consecutive Mondays. The first dinner will be November 21st [...]
Roy Choi of Kogi, Chego and A-Frame says he'll be opening new restaurant Sunny Spot on Nov. 18 in Venice in the former Beechwood space — "think roadside cookshop, where every day's a holiday." Inspired by the cuisine of the West Indies, Sunny Spot's menu runs the gamut from double-fried jerk chicken and rum-glazed prawns to slow-roasted [...]
Pete WellsThe New York Times just confirmed that Pete Wells will be that paper’s next restaurant critic, ending two months of rampant speculation about who would get that coveted chair at the t
Artisan House The word “artisan” may have rasped its last breath at Domino’s headquarters this fall, but one forthcoming Downtown restaurant hasn’t stopped believing. Artisan House is a new eatery taking space in Downtown’s Pacific Electric building, fixed on a menu of California cuisine in a combination restaurant, bar, deli, and market. The building will [...]
"If you don't like cookies, you might not have a soul," reads the header of Scott Sternberg's cookie blog. Sternberg is the designer of the Los Angeles-based clothing company Band of Outsiders. When he's not dressing up celebrity friends in his label's latest getups, Sternberg likes to blog about cookie finds far and wide. His [...]
Flickr/Joelk75 They’re calling it “honey laundering.” More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores is filtered to the point where it contains no pollen — which would make i
Another in our series of rediscovered gems from food historian Charles Perry: Our word pepper comes, by way of Greek, from the Sanskrit name of a cousin of black pepper known as long pepper (Piper longum). While black pepper comes in little round wrinkled peppercorns, long pepper takes the form of curved stalks about three [...]
This week's Culinary SOS comes to us from Emily Baker in Santa Monica: I have never been able to find a vegetable soup that comes close to Coral Tree Café's. I know they must have a secret ingredient in there that gives it that extra something special! With fall approaching (and hopefully cooler temperatures), I [...]
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