Category: Pop-Up
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Travel-Inspired Paella Night with Perfecto Rocher
Travel-Inspired is a new guest-chef series hosted by chef Brandon Kida at Hinoki and the Bird. The first chef to take over the Hinoki kitchen on Sunday and Monday evenings is Perfecto Rocher, formerly of smoke.oil.salt and Lazy Ox. I had not tried chef Rocher’s cooking before, but I heard his paella was excellent and […]
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Once by Ricardo Zarate at Santino’s
I was a late-comer to Ricardo Zarate‘s cooking, having never dined at Mo-Chica (neither the original at Mercado la Paloma, or at the standalone store where B.S. Taqueria is now) or at Picca when he was still a part of that operation. The only restaurant of his that I’ve dined at was Paiche and that […]
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Del Rey Supper Club
Note: If you are viewing this post with Twitter’s built-in web browser on iOS, images may not be visible. Please view with Safari. When I covered the Plate by Plate event last year for Eater LA, one of the news items I broke was that Del Rey Deli Co., the popular sandwich shop in Playa […]
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Supper Liberation Front’s Kurmalliance Benefit Dinner
Supper Liberation Front is run by chefs Josh Gil and Daniel Snukal of Tacos Punta Cabras fame. On Monday night, Chris Hei and I attended S.L.F.’s pop-up dinner in support of Kurmalliance, “a 501c3 nonprofit organization aimed toward saving sea turtles and their ecosystems,” with $25 of the $75 dinner going to the cause. The […]