Fresh Bites: 30 Sandwiches in 30 Days (Day 16)
Guzzle & NoshTuna & artichoke sandwich. With its menu of healthyish café fare, its pale wood tables, its mellow but earnest vibe, Fresh Bites could easily be a California cliché. Fortunately, i
Guzzle & NoshTuna & artichoke sandwich. With its menu of healthyish café fare, its pale wood tables, its mellow but earnest vibe, Fresh Bites could easily be a California cliché. Fortunately, i
The brainchild of Waylynn Lucas, former pastry chef at The Bazaar by José Andrés, Fonuts sells an unexpectedly delicious item: the baked doughnut. uhockey was wary at first since uhockey’s own experiments with baking doughnuts yielded dry, muffinlike creations. But Fonuts uses a special technique involving high humidity, pressure, and heat to yield doughnut magic. [...]
Brewed Awakening Since we’re pressured to make New Year’s resolutions, shouldn’t the world also commit to end-of-the-year indulgences? Our’s breaks down to a commitment to “drink more beer.” Next week, beer geek Joshua M. Bernstein will be in L.A. to lend a hand while touring behind his new book, Brewed Awakening: Behind the Beers and [...]
I love this stuff. The other day I was making a soup out of some kale from the garden, some leftover chickpeas and a few odd potatoes (along with a bay leaf, some garlic and fresh thyme). But it needed something. Found in the fridge: an almost used-up tube of Mutti tomato paste. I squeezed [...]
Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant criticDear Mr. Gold: The most authentic borscht in L.A. — other than at Grandma’s kitchen? –Devin Saez, via Facebook
“So it looks like I was wrong back three or four years ago, along with many other hounds, in thinking that the Asian Cajun fad in the [San Gabriel Valley] would die out and the imitators jumping on the Boiling Crab/Crabulous bandwagon would fall by the wayside. But in fact there are quite a few [...]
That’s the spirit! Get ready to roll up your sleeves, Xerox your booty, and challenge that jerk in accounts payable to a fistfight, as Los Angeles magazine is throwing the city’s largest communal office party next Wednesday, December 7th. Being held over two hours at Ratkovich Company headquarters in Miracle Mile (where the mag itself [...]
On Sunday at Biergarten in Koreatown, Food GPS presents Pigs & Pints: roast pork, craft beer and ice cream. The lazy-Sunday-afternoon event features a whole Filipino-style roast pig from Neri’s Curbside Cravings along with seasonal sides from Biergarten executive chef Eddie Hah. Plus California craft beers Ballast Point Sculpin IPA and Lost Abbey Red Barn. Aaaand [...]
Deschutes BreweryJubelaleNothing catapults you into the holiday spirit like finely crafted holiday beer. So the fearsome foursome of Clay Harding (38 Degrees), Brian Lenzo (Blue Palms), Ryan
Chef Kris Tominaga This Thursday, December 1st, former Joe’s chef Kris Tominaga and former Axe chef Brian Dunsmoor break their chains to debut Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, a Southern-slanted eatery in partnership with Capri restaurant, where these two wolves are setting up shop to serve Abbot Kinney from Tuesday through Thursday nights, starting at 5:30 [...]