This week, as part of our partnership with the KPCC show Off-Ramp, I joined host John Rabe and guest David Lazarus to talk about tipping—specifically, an issue recently uncovered by Lazarus, the consumer columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He noticed that an increasing number of credit-card receipts list tip amounts based on 15%, 18% [...]
Los Angeles, you may have heard, is in the midst of a love affair with the food truck. The most recent episode in this fling—if it can still be called that—was last Saturday at the Rose Bowl, where a sold-out crowd of 5,000, including yours truly, showed up for the Los Angeles Street Food Festival’s [...]
Our colleague Pat Saperstein, an EAT: Los Angeles contributor and the proprietor of EatingLA.com, has a good piece on her site about Tom LaBonge’s misguided effort to limit food trucks, and she makes a plea for L.A. eaters to sign the petition to protect mobile vendors. Here’s how her piece starts: I know being a [...]
If you’ve been around L.A. for a few decades, or even if you just wish you’d been around, you’re not going to want to miss the new KCET special Things That Aren’t Here Anymore 3 (the first two parts were made years ago and were so popular that they still run regularly). It’s apparently a [...]
EAT: LA’s relationship with the KPCC show Off-Ramp deepened this week with the launching of a new podcast. Host John Rabe will be regularly posting new EAT: LA/Off-Ramp podcasts, chatting with one of our team of savvy food journalists about L.A.’s best resources for food lovers. You can read his post and hear the podcast [...]
At the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational, the sun was as hot and golden as the honored dish. The Cheese Reverend began the festivities with a cheesy convocation, and passionate cheese poets and callers later took the stage. More than 6,000 gathered, but the event was prepared to handle up to 8,000, a nice change from [...]
We at EAT: Los Angeles recently sent stickers to every café, food shop, restaurant, pub, taqueria, coffeehouse, wine bar, bakery, pizzeria and wine shop in the book, and they’re starting to pop up in windows all over town. If a place has a sticker in the window, then we personally recommend it. In the last [...]
This weekend EAT: Los Angeles’s Miles Clements will be a guest on KPCC show Off-Ramp, to talk with host John Rabe about L.A.’s multicultural pizza scene. Here’s the piece Miles wrote for the Los Angeles Times this week about our city’s remarkable pizza diversity (who’s up for a ninja pizza topped with mochi and mayo?), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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