You’ve heard of beer-paired dinners and even Kahlua-paired dinners but rarely the dinner with vodka, I bet. I guess it sounds like it would be too easy. I consider vodka the tofu of the spirits, it can mix with pretty much anything. But at the Grey Goose Vodka dinner at Checkers Downtown this Wednesday, the…
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Win Tickets to LA Times' Celebration of Food and Wine
CONTEST CLOSED Forget the beach bbqs during Labor Day Weekend, people, you’re going to want to save your appetite for the good stuff: the LA Times‘ first food fest, Los Angeles Times Celebration of Food & Wine, is all day Sunday, September 5, at Paramount Pictures Studio Backlot in Hollywood. It’s going to be a…
Highlights of Angeleno Magazine's Great Chefs Night Out 2010 at the Fairmont
On August 1, food enthusiasts, restaurant critics and of course great chefs converged at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica for Angeleno Magazine‘s Great Chefs Night Out 2010 and 8th Annual Restaurant Awards, which was hosted by Angeleno‘s James Beard award-winning food and travel editor, Brad A. Johnson. We were all there to celebrate his…
Free Ice Cream at Poketo for Target Ice Cream Meetup
To celebrate the launch of its “Poketo for Target” accessories collection, the artsy collective will be throwing an ice cream meetup at the Target West Hollywood store on August 14 from 1 to 3:30pm where you can also chat with Poketo co-founder Ted Vadakan. The first 100 folks to show up will get a free…
A Rundown of the Dining Deck at the New Santa Monica Place
Earlier this week I was invited to check out the restaurants on the Dining Deck of the new, improved and now outdoor Santa Monica Place mall that opens today at 10am. When I arrived the security detail led me to the elevator that took me upstairs to one of the most beautiful mall food courts…
This Weekend: 3-Story-High Hangover, Mall Hype, Free Cupcakes
I’m going up north for another edition of 24 Hours of Lemons but I’m not leaving you blind. In addition to Saturday’s KBBQ cook-off you’ve got these events. Thursday, August 5 BreadBar Hatchi Mix: Comme Ca’s Cedilla — A Suite of Cocktails Max Seaman and Jeff Knudsen, the mixology team at Comme Ca in West…
2nd Annual Korean Barbecue Cook-off and Soju Mix-Off
Of course you want to go to the Korean American Coalition’s 2nd Annual Korean Barbecue Cook-Off this Saturday, August 7 in Koreatown. Come on, it’ll feature the top KBBQ restaurants in LA, like Park’s BBQ, Soowan Galbi and Ham Ji Park and sexy Chef Ludo and not-so-sexy Jonathan Gold will be among the judges who…
10 Things I Learned About Caviar From Petrossian West Hollywood
Check me out eating caviar at my desk this morning. That’s right, me, Ms. Foodie on a Budget. True, these three tins of caviar were left over from my tres fancy and comped Caviar 101 dinner which was created by chef Ben Bailly at Petrossian West Hollywood last night but still! Who would have thought…
This Weekend: Savor Los Angeles, Sergio Mendes, Chefs Night Out
Wow, we’re in August already? Where did the summer go? Well for the last weekend of July (sigh), you’ve got lots of food fests and sweets. You know where my mind is. Friday, July 30 Savor Los Angeles I never get sick of eating sweets and after every meal there’s always room for dessert so…
Highlights of LA Street Food Fest Summer Tasting Event
Back in February of this year, the first LA Street Food Fest took place: 30 food trucks, a donation-based cash beer and wine bar and over 10,000 attendees. Suffice it to say, a lot of the food truck fans in attendance weren’t happy, complaining of lonnng, slowww-moving lines and a too-small venue. But being the…
