WHY Creative breakfasts, lunches and even occasional dinners, paired with Homeboy Bakery breads. WHAT More than a bakery, Fairfax’s Black Cat has a freshened-up vintage café look and an evolving menu with unusual selections like the terrific farro bibimbap deeply flavored with shiitake mushrooms, burrata and a fried egg, pig trotter eggs Benedict, multigrain pancakes [...]
August 16, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Because the city of Torrance loves its farmers, and you can feel the love. WHAT The jewel of the South Bay, this market runs on two days, Tuesday and Saturday. Saturday is bigger, but both have a tasty mix of seasonal produce, plus a strong Asian selection—Hmong grower Vang Thao’s stand, for instance, is [...]
June 20, 2012 | Posted in
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There’s a new reason to knock off work early on Wednesdays. On May 30th, the long-awaited Altadena Certified Farmers Market made its debut at the south end of Loma Alta County Park, just off Lincoln Ave. on Palm St. in Altadena. The small, weekly market (about 30 vendors) has a prime location next to the [...]
WHY Kids’ amusements, live music, great people-watching and very good produce. WHAT This sibling of the famous Arizona Avenue market is the social event of the week in south SanMo, where neighbors meet and families shop. It may seem to be more about the face-painting and music, but there’s also some terrific food from the [...]
April 13, 2012 | Posted in
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The market may have been created by and for Santa Monica, but this grandma of all farmers’ markets has become one of the most important food-lover’s destinations on the west coast. To celebrate its 30th birthday, market folks organized five days of parties, talks, demonstrations, lessons, movies and more. We were there for the kickoff [...]
September 17, 2011 | Posted in
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In the heart of Los Angeles, 3rd Street has been a food destination since the summer of 1934, when a group of farmers gathered at 3rd and Fairfax to sell their produce. Today the L.A. Farmers Market hosts millions of tourists annually while remaining a popular gathering spot and food source for locals. The section of 3rd Street extending about [...]
There’s much exhibit in Topanga this week, as locals get ready for the launch of the Topanga Canyon Certified Farrmers’ Market. No longer will residents of this isolated bit of mountain paradise have to drive down to Santa Monica for their Lily’s eggs, Weiser Family Farm melons and Santiago Farms berries. The market will take [...]
We had to pass along this blog report from Donna Myrow, publisher of the nonprofit, teen-written newspaper L.A. Youth, detailing a recent outing at Farmers Market, where security guards would not let her give her uneaten food to a homeless person — even when she invited the hungry person in question to sit at her table. [...]
December 3, 2009 | Posted in
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