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NEW YORK – When I'm in New York, eating is my favorite thing to do. Roast pork pieces, skin as brittle and sweet as toffee, bathed in vinegar-garlic sauce at Dominican joints in Washington Heights. Cheesy, cheap pizza slices in Midtown Manhattan. West African buffets. Katz's Deli. Chopped cheese sandwiches purchased from the bodega. Who…

California diners await the release of the full 2024 Michelin Guide, but today the global restaurant compendium released another preview of its top restaurants in the state. Of the ten new restaurants included in the California guide, nine are in the Los Angeles area. “I think I’m more proud of the city of Gardena,” said…

There's no substitute for the low tables and frenetic energy of Thai restaurant Holy Basil, but it's possible to recreate some of chef Wedchayan “Deau” Arpapornnopparat's culinary magic at home. At his downtown and Atwater Village restaurants, he and his partner Tongkamal “Joy” Yuon sample rich curries, seafood specialties and Thai street food classics like…

Last Friday, one of LA's most picturesque farmers' markets reopened after nearly six years of closure, with so much excitement that almost every food vendor sold out of their wares. The Santa Monica Mountains provided a stunning backdrop for the tables laden with cabbage, carrots and bright purple radishes Topanga Farmers Marketa weekly event that…

Jonathan Santana opened the only brick-and-mortar Dominican restaurant in the Los Angeles area last summer. However, he was a teenager in the 2000s when he first thought that his family's recipes could be the basis for a business. Among his eight siblings, his mother Maria (nicknamed “Machi”) was known as the one with the golden…

Two days after the food service operator of a trendy downtown hotel closed its restaurants and laid off its food and beverage employees, a new outside management company moved in and hired a slew of new employees, according to a complaint filed with the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office. The laid-off food and beverage workers…

You can skip the steamed chicken soup dumplings on your next Trader Joe's run. More than 61,000 pounds of the grocer's frozen steamed chicken soup dumplings were recalled this week because of a possible additional ingredient: plastic bits from someone's pen. On March 2, Beaumont-based CJ Foods Manufacturing Beaumont Corp. recalled the product, stating that…

There are numerous coffee shops in Los Angeles, but only one is owned by Quentin Tarantino. The director's highly anticipated cafe recently opened next to the newly opened Vista Theater. Purchased by Tarantino in 2021and now Pam's Coffy serves custom-roasted coffee and retro vibes daily in Los Feliz. The project has been in the works…

“Menudo is always good. “There is good menudo and there is better menudo.” This statement comes from Arnold Jimenez, Coachella Police Chief and judge at the 1982 California State Championship Menudo Cookoff in Indio. Menudo chefs are bearers of tradition, adding a pinch of this or that, just as their mothers and grandmothers did. Therefore,…

Jered Standing, a popular LA butcher and advocate for ethical and sustainable meat sourcing, has died at the age of 44. He was found dead in February, according to a Los Angeles County coroner's report. 22. In 2017, Standing opened his store, Standing's Butchery, in Hancock Park, which quickly became a benchmark for thoughtful sourcing…