Now open in Ventura Beverly Hills: The Beverly WIlshire is offering an avant-garde eating experience under chef Gilles Arzur, along with spa treatments, for $1,500. [Squid Ink]“ Downtown: Joseph Centeno’s Baco Mercat is opening later this month with six beers on tap, drinking shrub, and Handsome Coffee. The chef will also sell his own handmade [...]
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Everyone has their favorite fall fruit. For some, it's persimmons; others love apples or pears. For me, it's the quince, oddball fruit that it is. When I spotted the first ones of the year at the Long Beach farmers market Sunday, I felt like running up and down hollering, "The quince are here! The quince [...]
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Daniel DrennonBeachwood pint and growlerTwenty-four guest beers rotate. Julian Shrago brews 12 excellent in-house beers and charges less for these beers because there’s no shipping. Beachwood
October 18, 2011 | Posted in
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• Smoked foie gras, liquified foie gras, and foie gras on brownies. Read all about the ban-defying dinner collaboration between Ludo, Jon Shook, and Vinny Dotolo at Animal right here. [NYT] • Achieving a sustainable meat supply might mean everyone would have to learn to love tripe. [Word of Mouth/Guardian UK] • McDonald’s is launching [...]
October 17, 2011 | Posted in
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Amelia Posada and Erika Nakamura are owners and operators of Lindy & Grundy Meats, a new old-fashioned butcher shop on Fairfax Avenue. Pasadena native Amelia met Erika, who's from Tokyo, while in New York. Soon after, a romantic relationship developed and their culinary adventures began. After attending the French Culinary Institute, Erika worked at an [...]
October 17, 2011 | Posted in
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L.A. Beer Week is actually two weeks this year, so there’s still time to catch some hopping events. It’s true many of the great beer stops (Naja’s, Beachwood Brewery, etc.) are a couple of DUIs down the freeway for most of us, but that’s no reason to miss beer week. Here’s a few choice [...]
October 16, 2011 | Posted in
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Now that all you home cooks are busily trying to replicate Pizzeria Mozza’s pies from just-published “The Mozza Cookbook,” you’re wishing you had a pizza server, am I right? For those who just don’t want to pick up a slice of pizza and heave it onto a plate, enter this sleek pizza server made in Laguiole, [...]
October 16, 2011 | Posted in
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So what does the home kitchen of your favorite chef really look like? Is it really some stainless-steel streamlined laboratory, complete with all the expected electronic bells and whistles? You might be surprised. The kitchen at the house of Corina Weibel, chef and owner of Atwater Village favorite Canele, is just as homey as can [...]
October 15, 2011 | Posted in
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Flickr/Lauren Manning In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. “Want to make a grown woman blush? Suggest that the reason she wants to go to Gjelina, the serene
October 15, 2011 | Posted in
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Depp As far as we’re concerned, Johnny Depp has earned the right to fall down wherever the heck he pleases. It might not have been his preferred option, but this week the thespian took a spill in front of 25 Degrees, tried to get up again, and then took a friend down with him. We’re [...]
October 14, 2011 | Posted in
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