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If you've been eating in Palm Springs for decades, since Hamburger Hamlet was the only edible place around, you've learned to be thankful for small things: A good beer list. An ample, tasty burger and fries. A decently-made pizza crust. A place that's guaranteed to have lively customers, instead ...
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eatingla.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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The dearth of decent desert eating isn't just
travel article cliche, it's mostly true -- at least...
until the arrival last year of Cheeky's, Palm Springs' answer to L.A.'s Square One Dining. Ironically, Cheeky's sprang up on the same block as Jake's ...
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Cheeky's redeems Palm Springs dining
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eatingla.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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Even with just a tiny chill in the
air last week, I was thinking about soups of...
the Asian variety. Hot and sour soup was playing a tune in my head, but the haunting melody of a good pho was also teasing me until I could stand it no more and drove to ...
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Vietnam Restaurant: Leafy greens meet surf 'n turf
I'm in Palm Springs, but if I were in L.A. I'd definitely want to try a polenta/raspberry cookie from the Village Bakery & Cafe in Atwater, across from India Sweets & Spices.They're free, but you must use the password "chupacabra" to get one. Hope I get to try one when I return!Village Bakery & ...
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India Sweets & Spices
Los Feliz
Atwater Village
eatingla.blogspot.com - 9 days ago
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UrbanDaddy has all the info and a not-surprisingly
dubious tone announcing the opening of Tangier Korean BBQ...
of Tokyo in Los Feliz. Wait, let's get this straight -- the formerly Moroccan-themed nightclub Tangier has kept its name, but turned into a ...
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Tangier Korean BBQ opens in Los Feliz; Town & Country ...
Tony Chen, the opinionated blogger behind the Sinosoul, "food blogging with a vengeance" blog is going a little milder with a new paid gig as L.A. food blogger at AOL's new Tripvine site. Despite all the cutbacks this week at AOL, they're simultaneously pursuing the content biz with a new web of ...
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Tony Cardenas
eatingla.blogspot.com - 12 days ago
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We stopped by the Frysmith truck last night
for a taste of the long-awaited fries from Erik...
Choand his wife Brooke Howell. Erik learned the frying trade first at his mother's knee, working in her hamburger joints, and then at tony bistros like ...
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Frysmith preview tonight in Eagle Rock/Los Feliz
Jennifer's poached salmon, shrimp flan with truffles and celery root with shitake mushrooms. Padma agrees it was the most intriguing visually.There are very few smiles left in the kitchen stadium -- oh wait, that's a different show. Anyway, as the show gets underway, the mood is tense and just a ...
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If you're going to have someone sneak up on you from behind while cutting up baguettes at Bouchon, hopefully it will be Merrill Shindler, charming critic and man about town who writes Shindler's Dish for Zagat. Shindler got some time with Amy Pressman, the partner in Nancy Silverton's Market ...
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Thanks so much to the dozens of EatingLA readers who entered to win Thomas Keller's Ad Hoc cookbook. Who says nobody cooks anymore? The demand for this was huge! Congrats to Erica, who was the first to submit the correct answers:1) The French Laundry was originally: Before it was a restaurant, ...
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The produce storage closet is ready for Wednesday's opening.Did Beverly Hills need a lavish new brasserie complete with bar a huitres, a bread room and an entire pastry kitchen? Sure, why not? Overlooking the French-style gardens of the still-new Montage Hotel, Bouchon actually looks like it ...
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In honor of the Bouchon opening party tonight, where supposedly I will be hobnobbing with the likes of Gary Oldman and Ryan Seacrest, EatingLA is giving away a copy of Thomas Keller's new Ad Hoc at Home cookbook. These family-style recipes look wonderful, especially the scallion potato cakes, ...
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Rambutan salad is an imaginative addition to the Thai canon.I used to drive down Fountain often, hoping that some day one of the forlorn Thai, vegan or Chinese restaurants between Sunset and Vermont would turn into something interesting. My prayers have been answered with the arrival in August ...
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Silver Lake
Hollywood-based writer Alissa Walker shines the light on Sunset Junction for the benefit of chilled Canadians who could use a steaming cup of Intelligentsia coffee in the Toronto Globe and Mail story L.A.'s Silver city. Whether Alegria really has the best Mexican food in the city is fightin' ...
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Hollywood
Sunset Junction
Silver Lake
Sona's lobster risotto with kaffir lime leaf and shellfish emulsion should be experienced at least once. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of Sona's chef/owner David Myers. He opened and closed a few Boule Bakeries, opened Comme Ca and Pizza Ortica, which are going strong, and he's contemplated ...
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Sona
Free rides on the MTA Gold Line extension, lots of food for sale at each new stop -- there's plenty of celebrating going on over the new Gold Line extension to Little Tokyo and Boyle Heights. Read about the festivities as well as a pub crawl from 2-7 pm, starting at La Golondrina, at the LA ...
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Little Tokyo
Boyle Heights
Congrats to Echo Park's the Park for hanging in there long enough to get a beer and wine license. The restaurant was operating under the difficult condition of not being able to let patrons bring in wine, a nearly catastrophic condition which they solved by hosting reservation-only supperclubs ...
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Echo Park
Egg Reuben benedict with Thousand Island hollandaise sauce is Eli's imaginative breakfast dish.It's down to a more manageable six chefs and the personalities have been getting more distinct, yet somehow Robin is still in the kitchen.For the Quickfire Challenge, the chefs have to deliver ...
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eatingla.blogspot.com - 21 days ago
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Foie gras dumplings appear on the menu as
fro gura dumplings; they're earthy, nicely packaged and worth...
the upcharge.If you're like me, you probably started eating dim sum at a vast banquet hall like Ocean Seafood Downtown or Harbor Village in ...
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Lunasia takes dim sum in new directions
SecretsauceTV brings us "Where the Dirty Hipsters Are," a mildly amusing spoof of "Where the Wild Things Are." Can someone who lives farther than two miles from Sunset Junction please let me know whether anyone else will find this funny?
