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It’s that time of year again… Pellegrino is doing its annual Dine Out event. For those who are unfamiliar with Dine Out, participating restaurants offer a 3-course meal for lunch at $25 and dinner at $35. I have to say, I think I get more out of this than the charity. [...]

I love cheese. No, wait - I adore cheese. I don’t mean that rubbery, bland molten and stringy stuff you generally find on pizzas, nor that weird orange stuff you find melted inside a quesadilla. Don’t offer me a highly processed slice of square, plastic-wrapped plastic ‘cheese’ unless you want to [...]

3 Square, five nights ago, Hans Rockenwagner brought forth on the plates in front of me, a new dining experience, conceived in his newest kitchen, and dedicated to the proposition that not all meals are created equal.

Now we are engaged in an internal struggle, tasting whether that bread, or any other bread delivered, can live [...]

[Photo of Natas Pastries]
Hi cake lovers! I did a lot of legwork recently and have come up with a bit of a guide to some of the best bakeries in the mid-East Valley, meaning from Encino to Studio City, keeping close to Ventura Boulevard.
This is by no means an exhaustive nor definitive report.
Which LA [...]

I wouldn’t call myself a hot chocolate expert, per se, but I would definitely say I am a hot chocolate afficionado…
Mere sematics.
I know what I like when I try it, but I cannot say I’ve sampled all the best the world has to offer.
But I have certainly given it my best shot!
At Angelina, [...]

Basil foam as created and invented by Ferran Adria at El Bulli, Spain.
Are you fed up with foam?
All truffle-oiled out?
Deathly sick of soft serve?
During the eighties in restaurants and kitchens everywhere (at least in Sydney), there was such a wholesale preoccupation with sun-dried tomatoes, placing them front and centre in virtually every [...]

I took a little jaunt downThird Street last weekend in order to do some necessary shopping and to try out the new annex to the Little Door, the Little Next Door. You don’t really need to read this whole review. All you need to know is this: it is like the French version of [...]

For 29 years, l’Orangerie has been a Los Angeles staple. It has been home to chefs such as Christopher Eme and Ludovic Lefebvre. Now, the very famous l’Orangerie is about to close its doors for good. This is the last week to get a meal in before l’Orangerie goes away on December 31st.

As tempting as [...]