With a fun-to-remember name and open 24/7, Crispy Pork Gang and Grill has beome one of Thai Town’s newer hits. Located at Hollywood’s veritable nexus of Thai goodness (the mini-mall at the corner of Hollywood and Hobart that also houses Ruen Pair, Red Corner Asia, Ban Khanom, etc.), Crispy Pork Gang departs from the all-too-familiar [...]
Bourdain and San Diego restaurateur Brian Malarkey sample Ludo’s chicken ABC’s new cooking competition show The Taste premieres next Tuesday, January 22, and it looks like a fun twist on the "Top Chef" or "Chopped" formats. Contestants can be either professional chefs or home cooks, and they have to impress judges Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, [...]
Spam musubi croissant Everyone knows that the San Gabriel Valley is the place to go for dim sum, dumplings and sumptuous Chinese seafood banquets. But with a roiling hotpot of cultures in the valley, there are plenty of other places to discover. Bloggers GourmetPigs, FoodGPS E*starLA and I were invited recently to try Azusa’s Mediterranean [...]
Mess Hall’s oyster bar Mess Hall opened just three months ago in the former Louise’s Trattoria space. Read how it rated in the January Los Feliz Ledger. Here’s an excerpt from the review: Many of the homey dishes skew towards the South, like corn fritters and shrimp ‘n grits, vying with hipster touches like the [...]
The Allston Yacht Club folks are partnering with chef Miles Thompson from the Vagrancy Project, which did a pop-up there before it closed, for a revamped restaurant in the Echo Park Ave. space. Allumette (French for matchstick) is the name of the new spot, which will open in early 2013. While AYC was more of [...]
Heirloom’s Matt Poley truffleizes the pasta with cauliflower ash Eastside mainstay Heirloom L.A., which runs the Monday night truck outside Silver Lake wine in addition to catering tons of local events, opened a sweet event space in Eagle Rock last year known as The Salon. Also featuring a patio and garden out back, it would [...]
Los Feliz Blvd. was a dirt road when the Tam O’Shanter opened in 1922. There’s no doubt that the Tam O’Shanter was way cooler in the 1920s, when movie set designer Harry Oliver gave it the look of a ramshackle fairytale house with a random Indian gift shop on the side. But the Lawry’s-owned restaurant [...]
Jaime and Ramiro of La Casita Mexicana The 2nd annual Taste of Mexico returns Friday evening (6 pm to 11 pm) with unlimited tastes from some of L.A.’s top Mxican restaurants, and of course premium tequila, mezcal and Baja wineries. A portion of ticket sales will benefit the Downtown L.A. Art Walk. Who’s there? Restaurants [...]
Caigua (Peruvian cucumber), stuffed with beef, raisins and feta Picca chef Ricardo Zarate has come up with a swath of new menu items, despite being busy with the more-recently opened Mo-Chica downtown and plans for a new restaurant, Paiche, in Marina del Rey. Even though Picca is nearly always buzzy and full, it seems like [...]
A giant beef shortrib is sliced and served with horseradish crema If a food critic says, "It doesn’t have any flavor of the neighborhood it’s in," it’s a true slam to a place that’s trying to be too slick or ignore the area’s culture. This will never be said of The Park’s Finest, probably the [...]
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