The recent theft and indefinite closure of the Boyle Heights stand Tacos Guanajuato is an unqualified tragedy. While we wish owner Ulises Gutierrez and everyone in
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L.A.'s newest cult item? I nominate the French fries at the new Farmshop in the Brentwood Country Mart, where they are arranged like flowers in an exquisite litt
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Dear Mr. Gold:
Where do you suggest we go for a meal of pheasant? In the Los Angeles area, please.
—The Melczers
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Melczer:
It's odd — severa
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One night we were heading down La Brea Boulevard and happened to pass a 99¢ Only Store. As we drove by, we could have sworn that, through the window, we saw a secti
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Maybe it's all the praise it received in Sideways, or maybe it's just damn good wine. Either way, Pinot Noir has been put on a pedestal of sorts ever since
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Dear Mr. Gold:
I have a group of my best friends flying in from Alabama, and we're all staying in Santa Monica. I never go to the Westside for anything, so I am
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Darren McGrady's résumé reads pretty much like your average private chef's story. He earned a culinary arts degree and trained in a top restaurant kitchen
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Last Thursday, Night + Market, from owner and chef Kris Yenbamroong, debuted on Sunset Boulevard. The space is attached to longstanding Thai restaurant Talésai, wh
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Now that The Daily Show has become the only news outlet worth watching, not only for comic relief but for actual reporting, perhaps it's not terribly surprising
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A tisket, a tasket, what's in that basket? Obleas, glorias, chiclosos, alegrias, pepitorias, ates, cajeta, piloncillo, tamarindo, canela and much, much more. Ev
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Walk into Mozza, through any of the various doors that lead into the complex, either the one for the pizzeria, the osteria or Mozza2Go, and there will come an inevit
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When John Sedlar opened his highly anticipated restaurant Rivera last January, little did we know that he'd just gotten started. Sedlar will be opening a second
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