Bacon and beer popcorn This coming Tuesday, Next Door by Josie will celebrate its first year by offering diners who order one of their big plates (remember those?) a free bucket full of its beer and bacon caramel popcorn. The restaurant was recently credited with bringing L.A. the first of many bacon-y popcorns to come [...]
It’s time to say it: Flavored vodka is a threat to our cultural existence. It’s bad enough that vodka branding has devolved into an almost brazen mash-up of borrowed imagery, aspirational meme… Continue reading “Serious Drinking: Stop the Vodka Insanity” > Read the full post on Squid Ink
Baked goods at Forage Planning to hit L.A. Times’ big food festival The Taste this weekend? Whether you’ve already got tickets for a specific event or are still trying to decide what to hit, here’s a gameplan for some of the events I’m planning to check out. 1. First order of business: check the weather. [...]
Book of Mormon Broadway’s record-busting musical Book of Mormon is coming to The Pantages Theater in Hollywood next week and Wood & Vine, located right across the street, is getting in on the funny. The restaurant is offering a pun-packed, pre-show prix-fixe for $25 every night of the show’s run, from 5:00 to 7:00 P.M. [...]
Leading up to this year’s Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we’ll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 61: Going Dutch Panini at Bread Lounge. There are peo… Continue reading “61: Going Dutch Panini at Bread Lounge” > Read the full post on Squid Ink
The “Chopurrito” bowl Salad-centric Chop Stop, which has so far thrived in two Valley locations, opened up in the big city on Saturday, and plans its grand-opening ribbon-cutting ceremony here in West Hollywood, planned at 6:00 P.M. this Tuesday. The event will be attended by owner Mark Kulkis, along with WeHo mayor Jeffrey Prang, and [...]
Leading up to this year’s Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we’ll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow. It’s a pretty simpl… Continue reading “63: Slippery Shrimp at Yang Chow” > Read the full post on Squid Ink
Lawry’s The Prime Rib 100 N La Cienega Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90211 Dining date: 8/12/12 Lawry’s an institution in L.A., nestled in the middle of La Cienega’s ‘restaurant row’ since 1938. That location was the first of many for the chain, which now has restaurants internationally. Growing up in San Francisco, I visited the House [...]
For the past two years, 1,256 styrofoam school lunch trays — much less than what most schools use in a day — have hung suspended from an acacia tree in the garden located in the middle of a s… Continue reading “LAUSD Expels Styrofoam Lunch Trays from School” > Read the full post on Squid [...]
Picky eaters rejoice, there is hope for overcoming your food phobias. Plus, should we label GMO’s? Hear both sides of the debate on California’s Proposition 37.
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