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  • Children’s Bureau Fundraiser and Los Angeles Times Bite Nite with Jonathan Gold

    Food events keep popping up.  After splitting my usual monthly round-up into two separate posts, I am still coming across noteworthy events to mention… Thursday, October 20th – Children’s Bureau Celebrity Chefs & Wine Tasting:  Children’s Bureau is a non-profit that works to prevent and assists in treating the victims of child abuse.  This fundraiser […]

  • Eastside Food Fest 2016

    Eastside Food Fest 2016

    It’s hard to believe that Eastside Food Fest is only in its third year.  Seems like it’s been running for a while now.  The event this year was very well attended, to the extent that the interior studio space that held half the participating restaurants did get quite a bit sweltering.  In a fortunate twist, […]

  • Off the Hook Seafood Festival 2016

    Off the Hook Seafood Festival 2016

    If there was a theme to this year’s Off The Hook Seafood Festival, it was raw tuna and grilled oysters!  At least three restaurants were serving some variant of raw tuna, be it in hand roll, taco, poke, or tostada form.  And two participants were grilling up some beautiful oysters (with another serving them raw).  […]

  • Mid-Late October 2016 Food Events in Los Angeles

    There are so many events, that many fly under my radar.  I totally missed a pretty big one that’s happening this weekend that should have been in the last post, so I thought I’d throw it in here: Saturday, October 1st – The Eat Show:  Not sure how I missed this one, with the line-up […]

  • Early October 2016 Food Events in Los Angeles

    October starts off with a pair of food festivals that span the Westside to the Eastside, and continues with many other food events throughout the month. Saturday, October 1st – Off the Hook Seafood Festival:  The second OTH seafood festival on the Santa Monica Pier is a relatively small food event, but the line-up is […]

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