“One Night Only” Dinner Hosted by Breville & Tasting Table at Red Medicine
I’ll tell you this – I wouldn’t date someone as young as Red Medicine chef Jordan Kahn, so it’s shocking to me that in his youth he has developed a hand so skilled, so innovate, that anything he touches in the kitchen becomes edible gold. Finally, a (much needed) score for men in their 20s. … Read more
Gino’s, Lou Malnati’s, Uno’s, Giordano’s: All Talk, No Traction
“We have eight meals scheduled in Chicago,” I said on the phone with my girlfriend Che. We were in the middle of a discussion about the lack of follow-through with men in L.A., and I was tossing a pearl necklace and a pair of pumps in my suitcase. “Let’s continue this discussion when we’re 2000 … Read more
29th Year Round Up: Chambar
An oven roasted fig martini, seeped in gin, frozen, and served with a side of Stilton blue cheese? We’ll take four of those, please. And that’s how our meal at Chambar, a happening restaurant in Vancouver’s Crosstown, commenced. “Civilized debauchery” the eatery boasts, and both the menu and ambiance manages to exude exactly that. Dishes … Read more
29th Year Round Up: Passover Seder
Like a 7th grader waiting for a boy to ask me to slow dance, I’ve been waiting for someone to invite me to their Passover Seder. Finally, after 29 years, my girlfriend Danielle popped the question. I was thrilled, and immediately offered to cook an appropriate dish. I was assigned brisket. I researched recipes for … Read more
29th Year Round Up: Dinner at Home with the Midnight Supper Club
I have have lived in four homes in the last year and a half, not including my regular stint on a couch in the Marina or the two months I slept in a boyfriend’s bed in Hollywood. Luckily in my nomadic journey from the Valley to West Hollywood to Venice and back to West Hollywood, … Read more
29th Year Round Up: Gjelina
I don’t know what you do on your birthday, but I usually spend mine searching for the meaning behind the prior 365 days. My first thought is always, what did I DO over the last year? Then I wonder if I gave enough, ate enough, and loved enough. The barometer of my 29th year charts … Read more
CaCao Mexicatessen: Nocturnal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
Upon hearing a restaurant suggestion, the first thing most Los Angelenos ask is, “Where is it?” In this sprawling landscape where driving from Brentwood to Downtown seems like a daunting and almost inconceivable dare, we Los Angelenos prefer to live, work, socialize and dine in our respective neighborhoods. A Miracle Mile resident certainly can’t be … Read more
Campanile’s Grilled Cheese Night
If you think $17 is too much to pay for a grilled cheese, you have yet to experience the braised short rib sandwich offered on Thursday evenings at Campanile. Prepared with a potent cut of taleggio, a slice almost as thick as the bread itself, the cheese melts against a shock of pickled red onions, … Read more
Mohawk Bend: Instagram. Instagirlfriend. Instarelationship.
“I need a drink,” I told my friend Hank on a sunny afternoon in recent history. “And I want to go far, far away from here.” Far, far away from Beverly Hills meant we were going to stretch our legs all the way to Echo Park. I traded my pumps for leather sandals, and through … Read more
Coachella or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Palm
30 hours before Coachella was to commence I decided I wanted to go. I didn’t know what was more of a draw – the fact that I could spend a weekend with the Kogi truck or the fact that I was having Friday Night Lights withdrawals and seeing Explosions in the Sky perform might provide … Read more
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