Even though this entertainment studio hub turned foodie mecca is losing a bit of its star power thanks to the ascendancy of Downtown L.A., it’s as packed with good-food destinations as ever, and now it’s less crowded. It’s divided into two areas, with the hot restaurants on Culver Boulevard to the west, where Park and Lock should be renamed Park [...]
Asking who makes the best sandwich in town is the kind of loaded question that inevitably ends pretty much like the debate over whose grandma makes the best pie—there are entirely too many variations and personal biases to come to a consensus. So we’ll just say that the sandwiches that follow are ones we really, [...]
The cold and flu season is upon us (wasn’t it 95 degrees just last week?). That means many of us need chicken soup, and fast. Here are some of our favorites around town. We suspect some of you may politely (cough, cough) disagree. Homey Chicken Soup from Moore’s Deli Nobody makes a better all-American chicken [...]
WHY For the bakery lover’s tangy lemon bar and the freshly baked focaccia with house-made hummus, all at refreshingly manageable prices. WHAT From the steak sandwich with tomato-olive relish to the pressed crabmeat sandwich (essentially a grilled cheese with a crustacean pedigree), the dishes are satisfying and so substantial that sharing is advisable. Though the [...]
WHY Hand-crafted party food—chef Wolff even makes the ice cream himself—culled mostly from farmers’ markets and organic purveyors. WHAT Brian Wolff is chef de cuisine at Lucques, so he’s a busy and talented guy, but he still finds time to work with his wife, Natalie, to cater everything from backyard barbecues to boat christenings. Their [...]
Joe Miller’s flagship restaurant in Venice recently joined the ranks of LA’s pre-fixe Sunday supper clubs with its three-course, $39 affair. To sweeten the deal, on Sundays there’s no corkage on your first two bottles (or go with the wine pairings for $18). If you’ve never been to Joe’s, that might not sound like the [...]
With so many great cocktail destinations in Los Angeles these days, we thought a short list of our farmers’ market favorites for summer was in order. Much to our happy-hour delight, we discovered there are far too many to list. Here’s a start. Ciudad Long before farmers-market cocktails became so trendy, Mary Sue Milliken and [...]
On this week’s EAT LA/Off-Ramp collaboration, KPCC host John Rabe and I headed to Vicente Foods to taste relish. Lots and lots of relish. Straight up. Ya, crackers probably would have been a good idea. All the relishes we tasted are from small L.A. producers like Jim Brown. Some are zippy burger and hot dogs [...]
We celebrate our own anniversaries at our favorite restaurants, but the restaurant’s notable years can pass by without a blink. Here are a few L.A. greats that are celebrating milestones this year in wood (5th), china (20th), silver (25th) and pearls (30th)… or celebrating in just darn good food, with a few anniversary specials tossed [...]
A free cookie—and on a Friday, no less—sounds more like your kids’ after-school treat than a pause-worthy restaurant deal. But that cookie at the new Santa Monica lunch spot, Bite Bar and Bakery, from caterer-turned-restaurateur Elizabeth Goel, is more of a generous slice-and-share affair. Like all of the cookies, her coconut-macadamia nut-dried mango version is [...]
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