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SoCalorie has written 152 posts for la.foodblogging

Spitz Gets It Untwisted

Eagle Rockers who cruise Colorado know by now, after many months of delays, Spitz is finally open for bidness.
The Doner kebab shop opened last Wednesday (April 12th). Now they’re ready for your cash in exchange for some bad*ss keb*b samwiches. Open 11AM to 10 PM.
We hope that all the unanticipated costs and unforseen heartaches were [...]

PimpMySnack: It’s Hard Out There for a KitKat

Outsized snack foods with custom rims!

Urth Helps Protect Gorilla Habitat

Urth Caffe has begun selling Mountain Gorilla Coffee.

TJ’s Plants in NYC

2005-10-03 014 Originally uploaded by jeditang.

I suppose it’s only fair.
Hollywood gets a Beard Papa’s and so Union Square gets a Trader Joe’s. The New York Times’ Florence Fabricant writes:
Specialty grocer Trader Joe’s will open a store near Union Square in about three months, a spokeswoman said yesterday, confirming [...]

In-N-Out Burger Heiress Reacts

Animal style is right.

SoCal’s Japanese sushi chef shortage

 
 
  Mr. "Yama" Concentrating
  Originally uploaded by yusheng.
 

I was busted by my dining companion a few weeks ago for trying to drop some rusty nihongo on a Korean sushi chef. Somehow our drunken conversation swerved onto the topic of authentic Japanese sushi versus California sushi and then by extension we wandered into a dopey debate [...]

SF Chron: Hatfields Head to LA

Bay Area chefs Quinn and Karen Hatfield are leaving San Francisco’s popular Cortez restaurant to open a new place in West Hollywood called, fittingly enough, Hatfield.

Juicy In-N-Out Family Feud

In-N-Out matriarch Esther Snyder (86) has major beef with 23-year-old heir Lynsi Martinez. The In-N-Out old guard claims that l’il Lynsi is trying to force out ol’ Esther and proceed with plans to expand the hell out of the beloved chain.