When Matt Glassman, James Bygrave and Ryan Julio set about opening a cocktail bar in Highland Park, they wanted to bring the neighborhood a serious bar without the s
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These ludicrously long legumes aren't just hulked-out green beans. They're in the same family, of course, but they're closer to cowpeas. Which are simila
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Small goals work well. Watching one episode, reading one chapter, cleaning up one room ? these are things you can wrap your head around. Trying to clean your entire
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Kettle Black, the newest addition to Silver Lake's rapidly expanding restaurant scene, is now open on Sunset Boulevard in Sunset Junction. Brought to you by Beau Lau
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Are you sick of healthy food trends like kale salad and pok?? If so, 2016 might be the year for you, a time when Los Angeles is rediscovering its torrid love affair
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While the taco has become the unofficial food of Los Angeles, reaching peak consumption and cultural significance in the past decade, there are plenty of other wort
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Long before Mexico was Mexico, there was Aztlán. Stay with us here, we'll get to burritos in a minute. But for now, let's go back to Tenochtitlán, the vib
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Over the last decade, a new kind of Mexican-inspired California cuisine has emerged. And Los Angeles is its hub. Food writer Bill Esparza once dubbed the Southland&
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Legend has it that Mexican mole was originally created for royalty and the gods. It makes sense that it would require nothing short of a deity to take the celestial
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Contemporary chefs often stake their reputations on mastering regional cuisines of far-off locales from around the world. But for chef Ray Garcia, his culinary terr
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Midnight is boring on the Sunset Strip. Its bougie boutiques are lit up but long closed. Its parking always sucks. Just down the road, even the Playboy Mansion is o
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On a quaint stretch of Holly Street between Raymond and Fair Oaks avenues in Pasadena, a generic over-hanging sign still reads Sangers & Joe, the name of the short-l
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