Category: Korean
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Hanjip
Koreatown is one of the most densely populated and diverse neighborhoods in Los Angeles and is home to hundreds of Korean restaurants, ranging from small hole-in-the-wall shops to giant banquet halls. If you want great Korean food in LA, you’d generally be wasting your time looking for it outside of Koreatown. But one relatively new […]
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Luckyrice Feast Los Angeles 2015
Last Thursday, I attended my first Luckyrice Feast at the Create Nightclub in Hollywood. This year’s Los Angeles host was Andy Ricker of Pok Pok fame, the non-profit partner was the Center for Asian American Media, and the presenting sponsor was Bombay Sapphire East. Having never been to a Luckyrice event before, I wasn’t sure […]
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Roy Choi’s POT at The Line Hotel
POT at The Line Hotel is the most Korean of Korean-American chef, pioneer, and entrepreneur Roy Choi‘s restaurants. I’ve been a few times when they first opened, and I loved how bold yet accessible their dishes are, but I hadn’t been back recently. A few weeks ago, when my sister’s family was in town, we […]
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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. This was just the second “Essentials” events, with the inaugural one just last year after a break in 2013, coming off of four years […]
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VINU Wine Bar’s $25 Foie Gras Tasting
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may have missed that the ban on selling foie gras in California has been lifted, though producing it in-state is still illegal. My feelings on foie gras are not as clear cut as you may think, but suffice it to say I do eat it, and I’ll […]