The Taste 2013: Field to Fork Paramount Pictures Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 Dining date: 8/31/13 LA Times’ The Taste was held this past Labor Day weekend, completing the largest tandem of LA food festivals in back-to-back weeks (with LA Food & Wine). This is the third year of The Taste in…
Asian Night Market Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival 2013 Grand Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dining date: 8/23/13 Friday night’s Asian Night Market was one of two LA Food & Wine tasting events this year to have a ‘theme’ (the other being Giada’s Festa Italiana). It had to be…
Live on Grand Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival 2013 Grand Avenue between 1st and 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dining date: 8/24/13 Live on Grand was one of the marquee tasting events of this past weekend’s LA Food & Wine Festival. Formerly called Live on the Plaza when the event was held at…
Lexus Grand Tastings: Saturday & Sunday Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival 2013 LA Center Studios 1201 W 5th St Los Angeles, CA 90017 Dining date: 8/24/13 and 8/25/13 This past weekend marked the third annual Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival. It’s the largest food/drink festival in the city with around 25 different events,…
Plate by Plate 2013 Vibiana 214 S Main St Los Angeles, CA 90012 Dining date: 8/3/13 This weekend was the 11th annual Plate by Plate event. Each year, Project by Project partners with a local nonprofit to help fund-raise and promote awareness for their cause (this year it’s East West Players). The chief fundraising event…
Vegas Uncork’d Grand Tasting Caesar’s Palace: Garden of the Gods 3570 S Las Vegas Blvd Las Vegas, NV 89109 Dining date: 5/10/13 Each year, Vegas Uncork’d is one of the largest food and wine events on the West Coast. Las Vegas is an ideal place for one of these festivals, given its high concentration of…
Le Grand Fooding Crush Paris – Los Angeles The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA 152 N Central Ave Los Angeles, CA 90013 Dining date: 4/26/13 and 4/27/13 This past weekend, Le Grand Fooding made its first foray into Los Angeles. The traveling event, hosted in San Francisco and New York in past instances, seeks to promote…
The Taste 2012: Flavors of LA Paramount Pictures Studios 5555 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90038 Dining date: 9/2/12 Day 2 of The Taste brought two more events: ‘Flavors of LA’ during the day and ‘Dinner & Drinks’ at night. I went to the daytime session, featuring an eclectic mix of LA’s food scene. Some…