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Champagne helps mend old wounds between food icons, L.A.’s own Willy Wonka, a redo of the legendary Judgment of Paris wine tasting, and can a new bar save Chili John’s? Plus more in this week’s Tasting Notes.
A vibrant-green pea and potato salad for spring, served with lemon-y pea shoots, is a recipe from chef Giles Clark of Café 2001 in downtown L.A.
From ‘the master’ in ‘Midnight Diner’ to L.A.’s Sora Craft Kitchen where the chef is the only employee. Plus, a burger diner that honors Nipsey Hussle, new food guides to bagels, pickles and halal restaurants. Also, feel-good soups to make this weekend. In this week’s Tasting Notes.
Bricia Lopez’s new substack is a love letter to Oaxacan food
Have you ever had a thrown martini? Plus, the Food team has a full guide to martinis in Los Angeles, classic and otherwise.
Duck in Thai Town, plus boozy raw-milk lattes, goat tacos worth a detour, trouble in wine country and the Trump administration is targeting California’s Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals Act. All in this week’s Tasting Notes.
The beauty of claypot rice, the comfort of chicken pot pie, Panda Inn’s orange chicken redo, a Grocery Goblin’s art discoveries, pie from a cake queen, plus line-worthy sweets and a last meal at Cassia. All in this week’s Tasting Notes.
Author Molly Baz and many more cooks lost their kitchens in the Eaton and Palisades fires. How they’re rebuilding their kitchen lives one spoon, cutting board, bag of beans or bottle of wine at a time.
A second location of House of Mandi introduces Yemeni stews, rice-and-meat feasts and breakfast dishes to Westwood, plus guides to L.A.’s best Black-owned restaurants and a new wave of supper clubs.
Furikake Chex mix, flash-fried tortilla chips and more crispy-crunchy-salty snacks for your Super Bowl party.
