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Tastemade Bite Club: Mardi Gras

The first rule of Bite Club, you do talk about Bite Club! Okay, now that I’ve gotten that obligatory bad joke (dad joke?) out of the way–I promise, only one more joke/pun in this piece–let’s talk about...

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L.A. Weekly The Essentials 2015

L.A. Weekly‘s “The Essentials” event took place this past weekend at the California Market Center in Downtown Los Angeles, the same week that their 99 Essential Restaurants 2015 list was released....

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The Independence in Santa Monica

Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade-adjacent Asian-fusion restaurant Buddha’s Belly closed last year and reopened in January of this year as The Independence.  Initially, the kitchen was to be headed...

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République

It’s funny, I’ve seen République appear on a few “Best New Restaurant” type lists at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, but I haven’t thought of République as new for quite some time....

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Barlo Kitchen + Cocktails

I’m not sure how I came across it, but I recently “discovered” Barlo Kitchen + Cocktails at the Hotel Irwin in Venice, just a block from the beach.  Like Fork in the Road in Santa Monica, Barlo is one...

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Michael’s Santa Monica

One of the mainstays of fine dining in Los Angeles, Michael’s in Santa Monica is a 36-year-old institution.  Through the years, its kitchen has been the training ground for some of the best chefs in...

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Sweetfin Poké

Poke is “having a moment” in Los Angeles, with no less than five restaurants specializing in the popular Hawaiian dish opening recently.  Of this new wave, the closest to me is Sweetfin Poké in Santa...

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Umami Burger’s Tasting Menu

Last month, I was invited to try Umami Burger‘s 9-Course Tasting Menu challenge!  I gathered up three poker buddies and descended on Umami’s Hollywood location on a cloudy Saturday afternoon.  Two and...

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Superba Food + Bread

Venice’s Superba Food + Bread has had an interesting year so far, shuffling nearly all key back-of-house staff in the last couple of months–check Eater LA for the blow-by-blow details.  Having an...

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Belcampo Santa Monica

Belcampo Meat Co. in Santa Monica finally (re)opened last month, a year after its “pop-up” last May.  The butcher shop, selling products from their organic farm up in Larkspur, CA, takes up a small...

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Howlin’ Ray’s Hot Chicken

I’m not the most versed in regional American cuisine, so until recently I hadn’t realized that Tennessee, specifically Nashville, had a variation on fried chicken known as Hot Chicken.  Neither...

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LA Street Food Fest 2015

LA Street Food Fest 2015 took place this weekend at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.  Believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve attended the event, now in its 6th year.  I meant to attend last year, but...

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Maré at Greenspan’s Grilled Cheese

In the back of chef Eric Greenspan‘s eponymous Greenspan’s Grilled Cheese shop, through a freezer door—complete with a horizontal latch handle on one side, and an inside release button on the other—is...

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Rustic Canyon Wine Bar

My wife and I were both born in June, so usually we do some epic eating this time of year.  For our last birthday, we had an amazing, simple, salmon-centric lunch at Shunji.  This year, we decided to...

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August Food Festivals, Pop-Ups, and Sundry Events

To paraphrase the 1960s band The Zombies, it’s the time of the season for food festivals and other events, and August is replete with them: This past weekend saw the Big Bite Bacon Fest in Long Beach;...

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Del Rey Supper Club

Note: If you are viewing this post with Twitter’s built-in web browser on iOS, images may not be visible. Please view with Safari. When I covered the Plate by Plate event last year for Eater LA, one of...

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Burgers & Beer 2015 by LA Weekly

On Saturday, August 8, 2015, LA Weekly held its first Burgers & Beer event at the LA Memorial Coliseum.  40+ restaurants and 30+ breweries were represented.  I tried a little over a dozen burgers,...

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Maple Block Meat Co.

A quick preview of Maple Block Meat Co. from its opening day… The Westside has a new barbecue joint that just opened this week in Culver City, less than a block north on Sepulveda from Tito’s Tacos,...

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Santa Monica Yacht Club

My family and I are big fans of chef-owner Andrew Kirschner’s highly acclaimed restaurant Tar & Roses—I’ve reviewed it twice on this blog.  Last month, when my parents were in town, we had to find...

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Status Kuo

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post that wasn’t about a food festival or a pop-up, but with Brunch at the Races coming up, I thought I’d review a meal I had at one of the restaurants that will...

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