• Chinese purveyors of shark fin in Los Angeles feel unfairly targeted by recent legislation banning the sale of the product. [LAT] • A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning in front of Hollywood’s Stefano’s Two Guys From Italy Restaurant. [Hollywood Patch] • One hot culinary figure since El Bulli’s closing is Sweden’s [...]
Gosling, a man of good taste Everybody loves Melissa McCarthy these days. We mean everybody. Even the staff at Morton’s, who gave the Bridesmaids actress a huge welcome this week in Burbank. When McCarthy entered the restaurant with her husband, the team stood up to applaud her recent Emmy win as she was seated. In [...]
FIG pinot noir Launching just in time to partner up with your turkey, chef Ray Garcia, the super sustainable stud at FIG at The Fairmont, is releasing wines under the new FIG label. The news gets even better. Both the pinot noir and the chardonnay result from a collaboration between Garcia and Santa Maria’s esteemed [...]
The Ice Rider Oh food truck trend, just look at what you have wrought upon us all. The L.A. Kings hockey team brand is now accessible in a customized vintage ice cream truck that’s been converted into The Ice Rider. The vehicle is not slinging more shaved ice onto our streets, but serves as a [...]
The Vintage Caprice Danny Cymbal and Marcos Tello, the head bartender and bar director, respectively, at 1886 at the Raymond, have together concocted a barrel-aged cocktail called “The Vintage Caprice,” which uses gin as its central spirit. With the help of former San Fran barman and current Beefeater rep Erik Castro, the duo blended Dolin [...]
A look inside of Gastronomico, Los Feliz Beverly Hills: Yogisan Sushi looks to be taking over a shuttered space on South Beverly. [Eater] Central Coast: San Francisco’s Erik Adkins beat L.A. bartender Damian Windsor in a cocktail competition at the food event “Savor the Central Coast.” Yeah, well our food is still better in the [...]
Sad news was announced on Friday evening that Amy Pressman, baker, mother of two, and the force behind this month’s greatly anticipated opening of Short Order and Short Cake, passed away at age 53 on Friday morning following a six-month battle with cancer. The L.A. Times recounts Pressman’s career as the founder of Pasadena’s Old [...]
The Masheen Obviously, the big celebrity dining news of the week was the absolutely packed reception President Obama got at Fig & Olive on Monday, where supporters like Quincy Jones, Jack Black, Eva Longoria, and Danny DeVito plunked down nearly $18,000 each to rally for the president’s reelection. But the rest of the week was [...]
Don’t Feed The Miss USA Miss USA Alyssa Campanella, our country’s entrant into the Miss Universe contest (but of course, you knew that), will perform her duties tomorrow from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. at Sprinkles in Beverly Hills, showcasing the brand’s pink ribbon cupcakes, which benefit EIF’s women’s cancer research fund. An important cause, Sprinkles [...]
Definitely not the “Lushington” Drago Centro just dropped a new cocktail list for fall, employing strong names, curios such as coca-infused tequila, quince gastrique, and fig and basil water, and co-habituating spirits like Del Maguey mezcal with Bulleit Bourbon, on this list of eleven new libations. In a possible effort to make you forget that [...]
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