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Photo: Matalyn In Los Angeles, going out to lunch is an option, and one rarely taken by some of the most successful people in town. Our attitude toward lunch proves that, despite the general condescension that the East Coast feels towards LA, we're Read More...
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The history of Scandinavian restaurants in Southern California is thinner than a slice of Wasa Crispbread. Once upon a time, a legendary Swedish watering hole called Scandia sat on the Sunset Strip, and the famous and the infamous showed up for aquavit Read More...
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José Andrés Photo: Jason Odell Since the opening of The Bazaar by José Andrés in Beverly Hills' SLS Hotel , this hydra-headed assortment of restaurants (Bar Centro, Rojo y Blanca, Patisserie, Saam) has been the hottest Read More...
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Photo: Salim Virji Though doughnuts seem as American as apple pie, they actually arrived on these shores with the pilgrims, who carried the recipe over from Holland. However, the version they made bore little resemblance to the ones we buy at Winchell's Read More...
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Come Sunday, February 22, Hollywood players will assemble in the Kodak Theatre for the Academy Awards . The Governors Ball will be held afterward, with catering by Wolfgang Puck (see the menu here ). That's nice. Then the crème de la crème Read More...
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Pink's Photo: Courtesy of Pink's Here in LA, where last week's box office is old history, there's virtually no sense of tradition, except for the rituals and culinary pleasures of our venerable eateries – the French dip at Philippe Read More...
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photo: Yajico The word "noodle" comes from the Latin “nodellus,” meaning "little knot,” maybe because of the way they get all twisted up in the bowl. But noodles have come to mean many things to many people, most of them Read More...
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El Cholo's green tamales photo: Courtesy of El Cholo As the recession pushes us deeper and deeper into an Age of Diminished Expectations (and rampant restaurant closings), it seems a good time to pay tribute to those restaurants that have managed Read More...
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Cuy, otherwise known as your childhood pet. photo: Merri Howard In Lima, Peru, local foodies ecstatically describe the wonders of the Nouvelle Andean cuisine of local culinary powerhouse Gastón Acurio (who recently opened a restaurant in San Francisco), Read More...
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Mamma Mia Pizza Beer While reading through the always-entertaining British rag The Sun, I came upon a description of a pizza introduced at a London chain called Eco. It's called "The Hopper." For about $35, you get a pie topped with eight Read More...
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Photo: Courtesy of Philippe the Original The French Dip sandwich is as iconic to Los Angeles as the hot dog is to New York, the muffaletta to New Orleans and the Philly cheese steak to, well, Philadelphia. It’s deeply ingrained in our history – Read More...
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Let us consider the turkey, that curiously hyperbolic fowl that an uncommonly large number of us will be forced to consume tomorrow. Turkey is a creature that one either loves, or doesn't love, with only a very few left sitting on the proverbial fence. Read More...
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No one would think of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) as a dining destination. And thanks to the TSA, it's not an option anyway – without a ticket and several dozen pieces of federally mandated ID, there's no way to get past the Read More...
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The Cosmo may come and go . But of this we can be sure: the margarita is eternal. And of this we can also be sure: no one knows for certain where the first margarita was imbibed. One popular tale holds that it was the creation of a bartender named Daniel Read More...
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Deep fried grasshoppers and bamboo worms photo: avlxyz Thanks to the success of shows like Fear Factor , Survivor and Bizarre Foods , the consumption of bugs has entered the mainstream in a way few observers of the culinary scene might have expected. Read More...
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