Sunday December 16th, Chef Ricardo Zarate and Food GPS‘s Joshua Lurie will greet some of L.A.’s most celebrated chefs into the kitchen at Mo-chica to imagine and create ceviche dishes unlike any before. The first night, held December 9th, featured one of the more prized members of the seafood hierarchy, uni (better known as sea [...]
December 10, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY For a ‘real’ restaurant with good modern American cooking and a worthy happy hour, smack in the middle of the USC campus. WHAT For proof that college campuses are now luxury resorts, check out this sleek place in the lavish new student center at USC. With a cozy bar, a chic dining room, a [...]
November 22, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Delicious, fresh licuados, smoothies and juices. WHAT In Mercado La Paloma, a nonprofit community center with restaurants, shops and meeting spaces, this Oaxacan stand makes very good juice drinks that go beautifully with the food from the famed Mo-Chica and the excellent Chichen Itza. Homemade ice creams, too. WHO Latino families and USC students [...]
June 17, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Because you’re bored with most wine-bar offerings and tired of paying through the nose for a glass of wine. WHAT On a funky block between Pico-Union and USC is a tiny haven for wine lovers, where the wines of the day are artfully written on the blackboard walls. The kitchen turns out Venetian-style cichetti [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY It’s the least pretentious—and least expensive—place in town to enjoy coffee brewed by individual cup in a Clover machine. WHAT Hidden in a strip mall on South Figueroa between Staples Center and USC, this place is a total find for serious coffee lovers. It has a good and often-varying selection of fair-trade beans from [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY The mulita, a sort of taco-quesadilla hybrid made with two fresh corn tortillas encasing meat, cheese, guacamole and salsa—the L.A. sandwich of your dreams. WHAT Tortillas are made fresh here all day, and the al pastor is slow-roasted on a vertical spit… clearly this is more than your typical strip-mall Mexican dive. Everyone gets [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY Seductive dishes from the Yucatn: robust, citrus-spiked soups; panuchos with shredded turkey, tomato, pickled red onion and avocado; cochinita pibil; and wonderful tamales, including the colado, with chicken and achiote. WHAT Terrific Yucatn cooking is served at this order-at-the-counter café in the nonprofit Mercado la Paloma, also home to Mo-Chica. The flavors are rich, [...]
October 28, 2011 | Posted in
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