Palsaik Samgyupsal Korean BBQ: The Belly of Koreatown
Pork Belly on the Grill If you’re not into pork belly, there are a few other things on the table that you could savor at Palsaik Samgyupsal. I’m just not convinced that this restaurant is exactly your...
View ArticleThis Week: Open House at Valerie Confections
Petit Fours If there ever was a good time to visit Valerie Confections, this week would be it. Valerie Gordon and Stan Weightman are hosting a week-long open house starting today with different...
View ArticleLos Angeles Bars That Don’t Belong
R Bar - Photographed by: Alen Lin (www.alenlin.com) We all love Los Angeles for the diversity it affords in all cross-sections of life. (Or, at least I hope you do.) But let’s be honest. When it comes...
View ArticleMirak Serves Up Really Good Korean Goat Stew
Goat Stew at Mirak I’ve never pegged myself as the most adventurous rib on the rack of food bloggers. So for those of us to whom the dish is new (including myself until a few weeks ago), it is...
View ArticleThings Learned From Two Years of Going Metro and Bicycling in Los Angeles
Bicycling Los Angeles People do walk in L.A., but – let’s be honest – they mostly still don’t. People drive alone, and they carpool. They vanpool and they shuttle. They ride their bikes. They Über or...
View ArticleThe Great Los Angeles Walk Hits Melrose on Saturday, November 17, 2012
The Great LA Walk: Washington Blvd (2009) Mark your calendars, walkers, runners, bikers and proud Angelenos. You won’t want to miss the Great LA Walk this Saturday. It’s a 17-mile walk from Downtown LA...
View ArticleGiveaway: Tickets to Screening of “Viva Mezcal” with Free-Flowing Mezcal and...
Viva Mezcal Documentary What’s better than a documentary about Mezcal accompanied by free-flowing Mezcal and Oaxacan antijitos (street food dishes, if you will)? Probably the setting – which will be...
View ArticleGuinness Menu Items In and Around Hollywood
Guinness Milkshake at 25 Degrees Last week, I got to enjoy up close a private concert by Paul McCartney right on Hollywood Boulevard. Considering the audience reached all the way back to La Brea Avenue...
View ArticlePiedmontese Beef the Star at Star King BBQ
Tomahawk Piedmontese Steak Known as one of the only restaurants in Los Angeles that serves Piedmontese beef, Star King BBQ is an unlikely destination for the genetically advantageous, double-muscled,...
View ArticleLunch at POT Moves to The Line Hotel Lobby
Noodle of the Day: Bibim Gooksu (chilled somen noodles, bibim sauce, vegetables) With the migration of lunchtime at POT to the lobby of The Line Hotel in Koreatown, gone is the enclosed, smoky and...
View ArticleThe Best Things I Ate in 2015
Branzino, Maré Los Angeles has been a phenomenal place to eat for the duration of 2015. In fact, it’s been really hard to keep up with everything going on in all parts of the city, but what a great...
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