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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 […]
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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. […]
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Howlin’ Ray’s Hot Chicken
I’m not the most versed in regional American cuisine, so until recently I hadn’t realized that Tennessee, specifically Nashville, had a variation on fried chicken known as Hot Chicken. Neither embedded in the meat, marinade, or batter, nor sloshed with sauce until dripping, the fried chicken is rendered “hot” by the manual application of cayenne […]
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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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Paninoteca by Scarpetta
Despite being relatively close to Bay Cities Italian Deli, the Godmother of Italian sandwich shops on the Westside, I was still disappointed when Santa Monica’s Ciboteca, from the folks behind Piccolo and Hostaria del Piccolo, closed last winter after opening just earlier that year. Coincidentally, another Italian sandwich shop backed by a higher-end Italian restaurant, […]
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