Rick Ross, Mear One, and Eric Garcetti Last night’s “Art of the City” benefit, held at St. Vibiana’s to raise funds for A Better L.A., looked a little like a scene from The Wire. The bizarro L.A. edition, that is. In a speech supporting Pete Carroll’s non-profit program, mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti pointed to his [...]
You can bet Gordo makes the list. This week, John Mariani and Joe Bastianich set off the sort of war of words that makes covering the food world’s every breath ultimately worthwhile: Bastianich called the critic a “condescending prick” in his new book, Restaurant Man, and Mariani hit back in the New York Post by [...]
Kenny Seliger Yet another pop-up is coming to liberate one of L.A.’s hard-working chefs. Next up is Kenny Seliger, the chef at Wirsthaus, who plans to launch an unaffiliated dinner series called “Trap Door Dining” on May 21. The first dinner will be a $59 five-course “head to tail fin” menu served at a yet-to-be-revealed [...]
Babycakes The L.A. Times reports on the curious case of Flynn McGarry, a thirteen-year-old, pint-sized chef with plans to cook eight-courses of “progressive American cuisine” at John Sedlar’s Playa on May 9. Is it still April Fool’s Day or something? Apparently not, though it’d be hard to blame anyone for thinking that the cult of [...]
Le Death in the Afternoon, now avialable by morning Bagatelle fought bravely against its reputation as a Champagne-swilling Euro-zone brunch spot when it first opened in L.A. back in February, though we weren’t really trying to hear that see, lest it cramp our crappy comedy. The restaurant is finally ready to serve its brunch on [...]
Pasta tri-color While Victor Casanova works to get his Gusto open on Third Street, a one-day pop-up of gourmet Italian products will take over The Hollywood Renaissance tomorrow named GustoItaliano. From noon to five on Tuesday, a gang-load of Italian vendors and food makers will offer unlimited tastings, including beers from Italian microbrewery Birra Valscura, [...]
Even for Hollywood, that’s a little lazy It ain’t easy being green, as friend-of-the-environment Gwyenth Paltrow reportedly told West Hollywood recently by taking a limousine for all of ten seconds just to travel from Stella McCartney’s boutique to Madeo, a couple of days before Earth Day, no less. Sure, this is L.A. and all, but [...]
A KTown rebound “After the riots, L.A.’s insularity somehow fostered restaurants with a strength of purpose, even stronger and more specific than they had previously been. Mainstream restaurants began to find their inspiration within L.A.’s communities rather than outside them. You began to see chefs congregating at places like Guelaguetza and Sapp on their days [...]
DineLA DineLA’s restaurant week is switching up the program to include new summer and weekend dates, removing the event’s previous fall stint but keeping the run in January. Running from July 16 to 27, the basic idea will be the same, while DineLA will offer its first weekend menus on Saturday and Sunday over the [...]
Puck Before Las Vegas’ top-tier selling-point became its legion of famous chefs running their own Sin City satellites, there was just Wolfgang Puck, who was told he was crazy for bringing Spago to the town of free fried shrimp buffets and three-dollar steak specials. Two decades later, we all know who’s having the last laugh [...]
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