Most marathons reward their runners with a medal, a banana and half a bagel or an orange slice. Hardly an incentive to run 26.2 miles. But this Sunday, at the Long Beach International City Bank Marathon and Half Marathon, there will be food trucks to help runners reload and celebrate their accomplishment with healthful fare. The trucks: [...]
To many out-of-state beer purists, “L.A. beer culture” may seem like a contradiction in terms, but in a region known internationally for its wine, Southern California has been vying for the…
Mini desserts sampled at Intelligentsia Venice during last year’s Taste of Abbot Kinney, more photos on flickr set here! With so many tasting events cramped in a parking lot, studio and loungey venues, the Taste of Abbot Kinney is a breath of fresh air. Instead of being cramped in a confined space and standing in [...]
Pam Anderson is the author of Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get Togethers. Her blog is Three Many Cooks.
There’s precious little Portuguese food in Los Angeles. Which is why it’s both bewildering and delightful to stumble across the new Queee Sushi Station & Portuguese Cuisine, says Chandavkl. Open for lunch only, they do mostly sushi, but there’s a separate Portuguese menu of just five items: a fisherman’s bowl, sablefish, chicken breast, lamb chops, [...]
Reservations for LudoBites 6.0 become available today at 5:00 P.M. through Ludo Lefebvre’s website, so hopefully your trigger fingers are ready. Seating is already disappearing, as the pop-up sensation has dropped a day from its schedule, citing Ludo’s bad back, which “needs one more day to recover.” But remember, if you don’t manage to land [...]
If you find yourself at the Santa Monica farmers markets on Wednesdays: Chef Michael McCarty and executive chef Mikey Stern are hosting Michael's Market Meet-Ups beginning this week. You'll start out at 8:30 a.m. at Michael's in Santa Monica for coffee and housemade pastries, while McCarty and Stern introduce a seasonal ingredient of the week [...]
As Dennis Romero just reported in the Weekly’s news blog, today the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved health-department letter grades for food trucks. This will allow the …
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with Korean food outings; sure, it’s generally a great – and LOUD – time with lots of friends, but man, the copious amounts of heavy foods that we end up shoveling down while gulping Hite/OB beers by the gallon (and if it’s a celebratory event; birthday, job promotion, being [...]
Revival’s special bourbon/wine cocktail It’s always fun to spend a few days in the Bay Area, where I usually stay with my sister in Berkeley. She’s a great sport about taking me around to the hot newer places. Here’s what we tried: Revival Bar and Kitchen is a retro-themed farm-to-table restaurant and cocktail bar on [...]
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