Category: Events and Festivals

  • LA Fermentation Festival

    LA Fermentation Festival

    This weekend, after stuffing myself at the LA Street Food Fest on Saturday, I attended the inaugural Los Angeles Fermentation Festival in Venice on Sunday! The festival originated in Santa Barbara, but expanded to LA this year.  It took place at the Venice Arts Plaza, a location that was surprisingly difficult to “Google” because it’s […]

  • LA Street Food Fest 2015

    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.  […]

  • BeerBowl Ticket Giveaway

    Update:  Congrats to Kelly K. for winning the first giveaway on my blog. If you didn’t win, you can still use Promo Code offalogiveaway to get $20 off BeerBowl at A-Frame tonight, and it works even for existing Reserve users! To celebrate LA Beer Week, Reserve & A-Frame are throwing their first ever BeerBowl this […]

  • Tacolandia 2015

    Tacolandia 2015

    LA Weekly‘s and Bill “Street Gourmet LA” Esparza’s third annual Tacolandia food festival took place this past Saturday, June 6, 2015, at El Pueblo de Los Angeles, same location as last year, adjacent to historic Olvera Street.  This year, the number of participants ballooned to 80+ while the number of attendees increased 60%, from 2,500 […]

  • Broken Spanish Pre-Tacolandia Night of Modern Mexican Cuisine

    Broken Spanish Pre-Tacolandia Night of Modern Mexican Cuisine

    Tacolandia 2015 is upon us!  For those not in the know, Tacolandia is an annual event that Bill “Street Gourmet LA” Esparza and LA Weekly host, and it is the most epic taco-centric food festival ever!  This is the third year of the event, and the third I will be attending.  The events have not […]