Category: American
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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 celebrate with a pair of dinners at a pair of restaurants that Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb, […]
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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 Maré, an al fresco-only restaurant-within-a-restaurant. Less exclusive-supper-club and more neighborhood-hidden-gem, the diminutive restaurant’s diminutive menu is well focused and affordable, and the staff […]
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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 it conflicted with Tacolandia. This year, I made sure my schedule was clear for LASFF. […]
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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 embedded in the meat, marinade, or batter, nor sloshed with sauce until dripping, the fried chicken is rendered “hot” by the manual application of cayenne […]
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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 portion of their store front, while the entrance to the restaurant is to the left. The restaurant menu has a few […]