For Thanksgiving and Christmas, it’s been customary for my family to do two meals: lunch at my aunt’s (mom’s side) and dinner at my grandmother’s (dad’s side). This year was no exception. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to prepare anything myself since I flew up to the Bay Area in the morning. Regardless, there was…
This was my first time cooking pork belly, and also my first time cooking anything confit. I found myself with a four-pound slab of pork belly and a dizzying array of options in how to cook it. Looking through a number of recipes, I finally decided on Thomas Keller’s pork belly confit recipe in Ad…
Drago Centro 525 S Flower St Los Angeles, CA 90071 Given my proximity to the restaurant and my love of their food, I come back to Drago Centro every so often; however, this has recently been only for lunch.I have a love-hate relationship with Drago Centro. I love the food, but the service (especially at…
Test Kitchen: Haru Kishi 9575 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90035 Haru Kishi is the new Executive Chef of the Beverly Hills location of Chaya Brasserie. What I find far more interesting is his culinary background. He was a part of the Joel Robuchon empire before coming to LA to be the head chef…
Hatfield’s 6703 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038 Hatfield’s was one of the longest tenured restaurants on my mental list of restaurants to go to in 2010. Others with an extended stay on that list were The Dining Room at the Langham, Animal, and Petrossian – all of which I had an opportunity to try…
LudoBites 6.0 at Max 13355 Ventura Blvd Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 I was excited to make a return trip to LudoBites after luckily snatching up a cancellation on OpenTable. Ludo changes up the menu pretty frequently, so it was exciting to be able to try some of the new dishes as well as some of…
Test Kitchen: Alain Giraud 9575 West Pico Boulevard Los Angeles 90035 Alain Giraud has been around the LA dining scene for a while, most notably cooking at Citrus in the early ’90s and being the opening chef of Bastide in 2002; both of these were critically acclaimed. He left Bastide just as I had moved…
SUGARFISH Downtown 600 W 7th Street Los Angeles, CA 90017 I’d been hearing a lot about SugarFish’s latest location in downtown with everyone raving about fresh, delicious fish at reasonable prices. Given that I live and work in downtown, it was only a matter of time until I paid a visit. SugarFish is a more…