Los Angeles Informer

Los Angeles Dining Deals and Events July 9-15 Summer means longer days, which means longer hours at Farmshop at the Brentwood Country Mart and more time for fried chicken. Read more on Huffington Post

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The drink is called the Chin-Up, which seems inadequate as solace, halfhearted as a name. It blends Beefeater’s gin and Cynar, a peculiar digestif containing cynarine, the active ester that gives the artichoke its odd aftertaste. It is finished with muddled cucumber, a splash of vermouth, a pinch…

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Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, also is an investor in many L.A. restaurants. We asked him, “Why food?” at his favorite spot in town, the Original Farmers Market. Here are excerpts from the conversation. On working in a deli Right af…

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Does L.A. boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adri

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I worked on a proposal for a cookbook with a well-known Los Angeles chef, whom I will call J. J. has a genius for intensifying familiar dishes, for transforming comfort food (via small, brilliant touches) into life-affirming food. J.’s recipes are sophisticated, meant for people who pay attention…

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Click here to order Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, by Gustavo Arellano. The corner of Mount Vernon Avenue and Sixth Street in San Bernardino isn’t…

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On Feb. 21, a polite yet serpentine line spilled out the doors of the Surly Goat onto Santa Monica Boulevard, as people queued up for the opportunity to sip Russian River’s Pliny the Younger Triple IPA. If successful, they would all tell the tale that they were there, and they partook. Pli…

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It’s after 11 p.m. on a Friday night and I’ve just arrived at Tijuana’s Mision 19 to meet with Damien Cave, a New York Times writer and former Iraq War correspondent, for a weekend food tour of Tijuana (his write-up was just published in Food and Wine). Cave and his wife are fin…

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Hiking last year in La Tuna Canyon, as my guide identified the streamside plants that we passed, I was gripped by a craving that only the late-winter mention of an early summer fruit can provoke. At the time, there were only March flowers on the trailing and thorny canes of what my friend, a bota…

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I used to be a chef. That sounds funny, because I still cook. But the thing is, the moment I stepped out of those kitchen clogs, said goodbye to that part of the chef community and cooked from my soul is exactly the moment when I became more of a cook than when I actually [...]

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Click here for Anne Fishbein’s slide show. B

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Click here for Anne Fishbein’s slide show. Let’s get this out of the way: Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Village is the most ambitious Chinese restaurant to open in Los Angeles in a decade — mayb…

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Most days, it’s just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-wee Herman’s playhouse, it’s pancakes, eggs, bacon and Mr. T’s cereal via a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that involves whirling fans, a life-size model of Abraham Lincoln doubling as flapjack flipper, and a toy skele…

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Click here for Anne Fishbein’s slide show. The loneliest evening I ever spent in New Orleans was on my first visit to the city, at the glistening food court into which the gr…

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In this time of economic privation, it seems fitting that the 99 percent of us who didn’t win the economic lottery remember what it means to “cut corners.” The etymology of the phrase, an idiomatic way of saying “to do something as cheaply or quickly as possible, often sacrificing quality,…

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