Summer is here and baseball is in full swing. And Southern California is blessed with three Major League teams. Today, I want to give a little love to the Angels (and they sure need it!). If it’s been awhile since you’ve been to the Big A, it’s time to return. The team might not be as good as in years’ past but the food sure … Continue reading Baseball Food Just Got Better
If there’s something better than drinking wine on a rooftop garden overlooking the ocean as a cool salt breeze cavorts with a warm spring evening, it is probably illegal or at the very least, fattening. If you don’t enjoy good wine in a lush patio environment, not only is this article not for you, but really ask yourself whether Southern California is. Or life itself, … Continue reading Sonoma Wine Garden: Wine Country on a Roof
Adulting is hard work. There’s a reason we turn to sites like this to guide us to the next Happy Hour, resort spa and bottomless mimosa brunch. Many Californians are forced into a life of labor, toiling sometimes as much as five days a week. Some have traded slumber to produce children, a hedge against poverty and loneliness in old age. And there are so, … Continue reading Escape LA: Carlsbad
“Life moves pretty fast,” Ferris Bueller told us. Nowhere is that more true than the L.A. dining scene. OK, that’s probably not true, but it really serves the purposes of my article here, so I’m not going to, like, retract it or anything. Like pop-up restaurants, bursting on the scene before pulling the inevitable Houdini act, the brick-and-mortar world is nearly as equally ephemeral. And … Continue reading Reconceived – LA’s 3 new culinary twists
Angelenos love their burgers. And it seems like just when you think we’ve reached a saturation point or that there’s nothing left to do burger-wise, along comes a new joint that reminds you why you fell in love with the all-American food in the first place. So for the jaded palates in LaLa Land, let me introduce you to Hollywood Burger. As is the rage, … Continue reading Hollywood Burger is the Latest Star on the Walk of Fame
Fur trappers from the other side of the globe established a trading colony along its ever-flowing waters as the 19th century dawned, giving rise to its name: The Russian River. They were followed by migrants from Italy and France who settled in the lush valleys and brought with them a tradition of winemaking. And today, Sonoma County is home to a 130-year-old wine culture and … Continue reading Sonoma Wine Road: A Taste of Past and Future
There are a lot of people who have forgotten that the restaurant business is supposed to be fun. Chris Himmel is not one of them. The chef-turned-restaurateur recently completed a cross-country RV tour in which he and his chefs popped up in cities across America to give the locals a little taste of his brand of farm-to-table flair. The antepenultimate stop on the Boston-to-Brawley journey … Continue reading Road Warrior Chefs Hit L.A.
If you were going to take the best elements of your favorite burger joints to build a burger utopia from the ground up, what would it look like? You would want to begin by sourcing your ingredients from the local farmers, butchers and vendors, and engage in fair trade practices. You would want a variety of meats, not just beef, but wild boar, elk, bison … Continue reading Bareburger: A Burger Utopia
As the world grieves for the French in the wake of the terrorist attacks earlier this month, it seems wholly appropriate to pay homage to the nation and its people by raising a glass in their honor, filled with their unparalleled gift to the civilized world. The third Thursday of November is Beaujolais Nouveau Day in France. And no amount of bullets or bombs will … Continue reading A Toast to the French
That smell in the November Beverly Hills air — in addition to money — emanating from within the city’s finest dining rooms, is white truffles. Truffle season is in full bloom, as menus around town, and food lovers with sophisticated palates and fat wallets will attest. The pungent mushrooms, rarer than real breasts in this town, are found in only a few select areas of … Continue reading White Truffles Sprout up in Beverly Hills
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