Bizarre as it sounds, the grilled cheese sandwich’s fame can be likened to that of Neil Patrick Harris. Both first resonated with a younger audience and were pigeonholed for a while—NPH as Doogie Howser and the grilled cheese as a cheap kid’s menu item. But in recent years both have managed to surprise us and [...]
The EAT: Los Angeles team is happy to announce that we’ll be regulars on KPCC’s show Off-Ramp, starting with my appearance this weekend to talk about the increasing (and welcome) number of gastropubs in Los Angeles. (I know, the word “gastropub” can be annoying, but no one’s come up with a better word yet.) In [...]
Not only does early April bring Easter and Passover, but it heralds a wealth of spring celebrations, including the always-popular Thai New Year Festival in Hollywood, the Cambodian New Year Parade in Long Beach and a Sizdeh Bedar (celebrating the end of the Persian New Year) in Lake Balboa. All three outdoor festivals will showcase, [...]
It’s a natural. Tomorrow, the Cart for a Cause, the country’s first philanthropic food truck, serves its first chef-made lunches here in L.A. Tuesdays through November, catch this big red food truck and you can buy a great $10 lunch (includes beverage!) prepared by one of L.A.’s finest chefs. Added value: $6.50 of that goes [...]
There’s a new wine shop in town — at least as far as your credit card bill is concerned. Plonk Wine Merchants may not have a Home Depot charge account, but owner Etty Lewensztain has racked up her share of start-up costs in web design and high-speed internet charges. After five post-college years in New [...]
The world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat — a 10,460-pound creation that seemed spawned from Willy Wonka’s factory — came to be on Sunday on the field outside the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge. A new TLC show called Mega Bites, hosted by San Diego restaurateur and Top Chef season-three finalist Brian Malarkey, created the treat for its pilot [...]
Where were we? Right, Medflies. You’ve been seeing the signs of a quarantine (such as netting over produce) in farmers’ markets in Santa Monica, Culver City and adjoining areas (see my original post on the subject here). They’re not beneficial insects — they don’t pollinate fruit, they destroy it — so once their presence has [...]
Blame it on our nose-to-the-grindstone L.A. County health inspectors, who always seem to ferret out a food festival or suspicious food truck, or maybe it’s the traffic’s fault, but Los Angeles has never had its fair share of underground restaurants (we admittedly find it hard to imagine willfully eating in someone’s attic or basement after [...]
I remember very few childhood outings in the 1960s with my rather sickly grandfather Charlie, but I do remember Norms. For a rare treat he’d take a few of his many grandkids to the now-gone Norm’s in Los Feliz, and we thought it was just swell. Today 17 branches remain, most notably the parent in [...]
You’ve seen the quarantine signs, the netting draped over fruits and vegetables-that-are-really-fruits, such as tomatoes and avocados, and the fans propelling streams of air over some produce displays. What does it all mean? First of all, there is nothing wrong with the fruit that growers bring into Los Angeles, so don’t stop buying. The problem [...]
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