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LA Mag’s Social Hour & Petty Cash Arts District Preview
Last night, my friend Natalie and I attended Los Angeles Magazine‘s “Social Hour” at Petty Cash Taqueria‘s new location in the Arts District in DTLA, to celebrate their taco-centric July issue, which contained many articles on that quintessential Mexican fare, including Bill “Street Gourmet LA” Esparza’s expanded LA Tacopedia and his 25 Best Tacos list. […]
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Maple Block Meat Co.
A quick preview of Maple Block Meat Co. from its opening day… The Westside has a new barbecue joint that just opened this week in Culver City, less than a block north on Sepulveda from Tito’s Tacos, for those needing a landmark for reference. Adam Cole, formerly of Lindy & Grundy, ink., Bazaar, is the […]
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Burgers & Beer 2015 by LA Weekly
On Saturday, August 8, 2015, LA Weekly held its first Burgers & Beer event at the LA Memorial Coliseum. 40+ restaurants and 30+ breweries were represented. I tried a little over a dozen burgers, mostly in sliders form, and around a dozen beer samples, poured into a shot glass-sized plastic beer mug. For being an […]
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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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Big Bite Bacon Fest 2015 at The Queen Mary
Big Bite Bacon Fest returned to The Queen Mary in Long Beach for its second annual event this past weekend. Expanded this year to three sessions across two days, the food festival offered bacon-y bites and craft beers from several dozen food purveyors and breweries. This being my first time, though having attended quite a […]
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