Entries tagged with 'LA'
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The enterprising Thomas Keller is opening a Bouchon restaurant and an accompanying Bouchon Bakery in Los Angeles in 2009....
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We figured there'd be some Angelenos eager enough to get their hands on an iPhone 3G when it comes out tomorrow morning that they'd be waiting in line in front of the Apple Store to do so. We asked L.A. contributor Leah Greenstein for a rundown on serious eats near three Apple Stores here. Apple Store, The Grove View Larger Map The Original Farmers' Market: If waiting for your iPhone 3G at the Grove's Apple Store is starting to feel a bit like waiting for Godot, head on over here to refuel. Besides farm stands, where you can grab a piece of fruit, you can also grab tasty tacos from ¡Loteria! or a savory crepe from The French Crepe Company...
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The La Flor de Suhayo truck in East L.A. was the first to get fined under a new L.A. County law that prohibits vendor trucks from parking or for more than 30 minutes in a residential area or 60 minutes in a nonresidential one. This law blows; our corazons go out to the truck's owners....
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Patric Kuh is the restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine and the author of
The Last Days of Haute Cuisine: The Coming of Age of American Restaurants. He's also one of the most thoughtful food writers I know, so I knew we would get a unique perspective on dining experiences in Los Angeles when I caught up with him a couple of days ago on the phone.
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I asked some of my food critic friends and some of the correspondents from around Serious Eats where they would recommend taking your mom on Mother's Day. Intel poured in from around the country. And I added my own picks, too. Atlanta John Kessler, food columnist and feature writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, says: We're going to Watershed, which has a great, often overlooked brunch with cream biscuits, lard biscuits, toad in the hole, poached eggs with spinach and country ham, house-cured salmon, candied bacon. 406 West Ponce De Leon Avenue, Decatur GA 30030; 404-378-4900; watershedrestaurant.com A nice new choice might be Parish, a very cool-looking New Orleans cooking spot in an old bleach factory in one of the suddenly...
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Prankster group
Improv Everywhere plans and executes a brilliant little musical in the food court of Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills Mall, turning an otherwise mundane day into a memorable one. The video the group shot is sure to put a smile on your face.
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I lived in Los Angeles for awhile, but I never heard of 70-year-old Surfas, which is the ultimate food and cookware shop in the City of Angels. What will you find there? Their shelves hold up to 64 types of mustard, 30 varieties of salt, small-batch smoked meats from tiny farms across the South, every type of bakeware imaginable and a range of pots large enough to serve as hiding places for a toddler or two, and that’s just for starters. Surfas Address: 8824 National Boulevard, Culver City CA 90232 (map) Phone: 310-559-4770 Website: surfasonline.com...
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Web-based food reporting outlet TasteTV is in the chocolate show business. Its first San Francisco Chocolate Salon over the summer awarded gold medals to chocolatiers such as L'Artisan du Chocolat, Poco Dolce, and Lillie Belle Farms, as well as chocolate-makers like Amano and Divine. (I'm happy with that lineup, but, then, I was one of the judges). The second TasteTV-sponsored event in San Francisco (called a "Single's Chocolate Salon") followed so quickly on the heels of the first that we missed it completely (it was last week). Luckily, TasteTV has a couple more West Coast events planned. In addition to a Los Angeles Chocolate Salon planned for December, TasteTV is hosting a kinky Halloween event called the Dark Dining Dinner...
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I lived in Los Angeles for a few years and have often gone there for business, but until I read Jennifer Steinhauer's article in the New York Times, I had no idea that it had become the grilled cheese (fancy-pants and otherwise) capital of the U.S. and maybe the world. She describes the grilled cheese sandwich in L.A. as "an object of outright mania." She makes it sound as if grilled cheese sandwiches are the closest thing Los Angelenos have to their own organized religion. But I, too, am a grilled cheese maniac, and I figure a lot of you are, so today I am soliciting entries for the Serious Eats Grilled Cheese Honor Roll. Why?...
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I'm somewhat glad that I don't know what mangosteens taste like; otherwise I might shell out $11 just for one piece of the fruit primarily grown in Thailand. Gersh Kuntzman only indulged in two pieces at a gourmet greengrocer in Brooklyn, lest he wanted to refinance his house. Although Kuntzman happily tore into his $45-a-pound fruit, his wife was less impressed: "Face it, at $45 a pound, this mangosteen should come in a limousine with a chauffer who also cleans our kitchen. Besides, the joy of eating a mangosteen is eating it in Thailand. Imagine sending a Bagel Hole bagel to your brother in North Carolina. It’s not even worth the bother." I think I'll skip out on trying a...
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