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Quaint. That’s the word I’d use to describe the Culver City Farmer’s Market. It is slightly smaller than if Luxembourg and the Gaza Strip gave birth to a street. It occupies less than a block on Main Street between Venice and Culver. I’ve worked in Culver City for four months now, and I never really [...]

Well, I finally made it out to the Wat Thai market on the weekend. It’s a pretty, serene place of stalls and picnic tables alongside a Buddhist Temple. The food here is fairly basic, and I have to admit, I wasn’t feeling too adventurous, so I stuck to the foods I know. The Pad Thai [...]

Just wanted to give all you fellow epicureans a heads up about next weekends Sunset Junction Music Festival in Silverlake. Actually, I also consider it a food festival. They’ll have local band performances as well as vendors selling yummy festival fare. Last year, had some bratwurst, philly cheese steaks, thai food. [...]

The official word from a Muginoho USA exec today is that the Beard Papa’s Sweets Cafe, destined for the Hollywood and Highland Center, is on hold until mid-September. Just choux me, already! Please.

Mantra rock, anyone? The 29th annual Festival of the Chariots, a Hare Krishna celebration that includes a parade, a free feast and live entertainment, is coming to Venice Beach this Sunday, Aug. 7.

This Saturday and Sunday is the 2005 Lotus Festival in Echo Park. And yeah, yeah, “Asian culture this” and “Lotus Flower that” I’ve only gone for the food. What’s nice about the fest actually, is the clubby, neighborhood feeling of it, the whole thing is very low-key and upbeat; with not much [...]

Matt Dillon bad-assing around in a Cheetos stock-car? Lindsay Lohan running for her life from a Monster Truck? The Donnas, Lionel Richie and Van Halen needledrops kicked off by a hip-hop rendition of Zippity Doo-Dah performed by El Capitan’s house organist? Who do I have to call? Yeah, a friend’s date dropped out last minute so I got a surprise invite to the Herbie Fully Loaded premiere Sunday.

The image of the flower-dog from yesterday reminded me of another pseudo-dog I got to try this year - a tofu bratwurst.
See, tofu has gone all-American. As much as non-vegetarins make fun of them, we’re all familir with tofuburgers, but the thing that was new to me was this tofu bratwurst. It very much [...]