Category: Offal
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The Cannibal Butcher Shop & The Expo Line
The Expo Line’s westward expansion to the Pacific Ocean is complete. Starting at noon today, the Expo Line will have seven new stops and a new endpoint at 4th Street in Santa Monica. Another exciting development for the Expo Line is The Cannibal. (How’s that for a segue?) This butcher shop-slash-restaurant, steps from the Culver […]
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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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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 […]
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Taco Madness 2015
L.A. Taco‘s “Taco Madness 2015” took place on Sunday. Unlike the previous two years’ events, which took place at Grand Park and had free admission, this year’s was held at Villains Tavern in the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles and you were required to buy a ticket to attend. Tickets cost $10 and included […]
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COCHON 555 Los Angeles 2015
This past weekend, COCHON 555 descended on the Viceroy hotel in Santa Monica for its 2015 Los Angeles competition, pitting 5 chefs with 5 whole heritage pigs against each other. The prize was the title of Prince of Porc and to move on to the Grand Cochon competition in Aspen, Colorado, where the winning chefs […]