January 2012
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M.B. Post debuts weekend Brunch
Saturday, 1/7 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Post Up for Brunch Chef David LeFevre is debuting weekend brunch at M.B. Post this month. The menu features the likes of fried chicken laced with truffle honey ($15), or quince-and-ricotta-stuffed French toast with pears and chestnut-honey butter (pictured; $12). In addition to its popular cocktail menu, three brunch-themed drinks will be...
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Baco - global street food tacos...
Introducing the baco, a saucy, fusion-kissed creation with street smarts.
TOP CHEF: Josef Centeno indulges his creative side
June 11, 2008 | Amy Scattergood | Times Staff Writer
ON A RECENT sun-shot June morning in Echo Park, Josef Centeno left home and skateboarded down the hill to Lot 1, the new restaurant on Sunset Boulevard, to demonstrate how to make a baco. It was a short, fast...
December 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Egg Dishes In Los Angeles: 10 Ways To Get Your...
by Lien Ta (Sept. 23, 2011)
… other than burgers, pizza, Croque Madames, frisée-lardon salade and ramen, 10 more ways Los Angeles restaurants are topping it all off with an egg — for The Huffington Post.
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Rivera’s Indian Butter recipe serves 6
3 ripe medium-sized avocados 5 garlic cloves coarsely chopped 3 serrano chiles chopped coarsely Juice of 1 lime 1 ½ teaspoons salt 1 ½ teaspoon white pepper Peel and seed the avocado and put in a food processor with the garlic, lime juice, chiles, salt and pepper. Process to a smooth creamy puree. Enjoy!
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Slow Bar @ Intelligentsia
There’s more than lattes and espresso at the Slow Bar
Justin Coates and his Sonic Youth tribute
Coffee is a volume game.
To earn money and to keep lines moving, baristas have to continually crank out drinks.
But in the back of its Venice coffeehouse, Intelligentsia is breaking the rules by taking it slow.
Open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., the Slow Bar is helmed by a different...
August 2011
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Fonuts | baked doughnuts
Serving LA Mill coffee and both yeast-and cake-based doughnuts (that are baked rather than fried) in silly delicious flavors ranging from peach/lemon/strawberry, to chorizo cheddar, to rosemary olive oil, banana chocolate and one made with rum.
Fonuts
8104 W 3rd St Los Angeles, CA 90048 (3rd & Crescent Heights) 323.592.3075 www.fonuts.com
Lien Ta’s review on...
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Grilled Cheese Martini | New York
Introducing the Grilled Cheese Martini, a comfort food cocktail that counts grilled-cheese-flavored vodka as its main ingredient, available off-menu now at Beecher’s. Let’s begin with some seemingly arbitrary numbers: 37. 24. 1. 37: tries it took a team of bartenders to successfully fuse vodka and grilled cheese. 24: hours that the sandwich is left to sit in a vat of vodka. 1: amount of times...
July 2011
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Chef Roy's favorite Korean Spots
From Westways’, A Conversation With Chef Roy Choi:
What are your favorite L.A. eateries? Choi: I eat at a lot of Korean places: Han Bat Sul Lung Tang, Beverly Soon Tofu, Olympic Cheonggukjang, and Shin Jung…
Han Bat Sul Lung Tang 4163 W 5th St Los Angeles, CA 90020 Neighborhood: Koreatown (213) 383-9499
Beverly Soon Tofu 2717 W Olympic Blvd Ste 108 Los Angeles, CA...
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June 2011
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Roxolana | Ukrainian Restaurant
Sixteenth-century concubine Roxolana was reportedly so radiant that she motivated Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent to dismiss the rest of his harem. The sultan’s tale recently inspired Kiev-born chef Igor Zagorodnyy to launch a Ukrainian restaurant named in her honor.
The new Roxolana, in a former office space in Pasadena, sports an Old World look, with brushed yellow walls,...
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May 2011
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April 2011
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Clay-oven duck in Koreatown
Outside of the Beijing-style restaurants that serve gloriously crisp roasted duck, the whole bird is woefully neglected.
So when we read about a Korean preparation of whole duck roasted in a clay oven, we knew it had to be tried.
The dish ($60, including banchan; reserve at least four hours in advance) is served at Dha Rae Oak, which outfitted itself with the oven and clay vessels for...
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This burger has Soul. →
Soul Burgers 1035 S Prairie Ave Ste 2 Inglewood, CA 90301 www.tonissoulburger.com Toni Malone’s burger concept called Soul Burgers, is quickly becoming the talk of burger lovers all over LA. Soul food on a bun. Toni’s love for cooking goes back about 25 years when she opened her first burger joint not far from her current location. But her love for ...
March 2011
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Le Saint Amour | Culver City
French spin on brunch in Culver City
Bacon and sausage’s domination of the American breakfast plate is nearly unbreakable.
But Le Saint Amour’s new brunch menu—a collaboration between owners Florence and Herve Commereuc and consulting chef Walter Manzke—offers a variety of other cured meats. And after a taste of classic French charcuterie with our eggs,...
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Joe Jost's | Long Beach
Joe Jost’s 2803 East Anaheim Street Long Beach, CA 90804
The bartender’s tasks: pouring drinks, cleaning glasses, making sandwiches and peeling hard-boiled eggs.
The bartenders at Joe Jost’s, in Long Beach, peel a lot of eggs.
That’s because this bar, one of the oldest west of the Mississippi, is far more famous for its pickled eggs ($1 each) than for its handful ...
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GO Burger & Boozy Milkshakes
GO Burger 6290 Sunset Blvd (at Vine) Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-327-9355 http://www.goburger.net/
GO Burger, a bastion of burger innovation here to bring you spiked milkshakes and melted gruyère, opening Monday at the corner of Sunset and Vine. It’s a bright, modern corner spot from the beef artisans behind BLT Steak, with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto one of Hollywood’s busiest...
December 2010
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Cake Versus Pie: A Scientific Approach →
November 2010
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A-Frame from Chef Roy
Welcome to A-Frame, a pointy-shaped gluttonhouse where utensils are frowned upon, opening this Thursday in Culver City with food from Roy “Kogi” Choi. In this tall A-frame cabin (yes, it used to be an IHOP), everything is meant to be spread out and shared like you’re on a sloppy backyard picnic where somebody forgot the forks. (It’s the latest collaboration between Choi and David Reiss, who...
October 2010
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Olio Pizzeria & Café
Rarely does a pizzeria bother opening in the mornings, when the only pizza likely to be eaten is a cold slice from last night’s delivery. On 3rd St., however, the olive-wood-fired oven at Olio Pizzeria & Café is stoked to 800° while the day’s first coffee is brewing.
Every morning, the newly opened pizza place refashions the dough that will later carry toppings like...