,000 jars a year“ This is Farming????? So anyone who isn’t selling unprepared food they have grown themselves cannot be considered part of “Slow Food”? I thought the idea was to support small producers, from the...

to find wonderful cheeses, cured meats and bread. The likes of which you would have to get from a gourment store in a large city here in the US. Finding a decent loaf of bread is an easy thing to do pretty much throughout the...

feta cheese (?!?) on the side and some limp lettuce. The server talked my friend into the hot cervice — lurid colour, unappealing spices. Again, it could just be me.

, a total of six drinks between three drinkers, after all, we did have to conquer some prime beef later) we ordered as starters, one tomato and onion salad with creamy blue cheese dressing, one spinach salad and one order of...

which are only served until 10:30am. Grocery stores: 8) El Rancho (Echo Park, corner of Alvarado & Sunset). Nice cheap little neighborhood grocery store with a butcher, some decent veggies, and sundries. Oriented towards...

Park to have good dim sum, dumplings, etc. There is no Boiling Crab here either... I also kept finding myself driving to westside to go to places like Terroni, Craft, etc. To get good cheese, or gourmet groceries have to go to...

chocolate raspberry bars, but other than that, I’m also a See’s partisan (you don’t need to come to SF — See’s is all over the Western US). See’s mail order is also really good — you can...

on the Westside: Centinela (Now with Tacos!) *New Silverlake Wine Store *Organ Meats! *O Jing! Korean Squid Stir Fry *Tops from the BBQ Taste Test *Quality Local Tortilla Chips *We Condemn: Toye’s And, in General Topics...

Also, what I had posted earlier is that in the 80’s, it many restaurants banned people who were wearing Giorgio and Camp Beverly Hills because they were so strong.

the Beverly Center—also had mixed reviews, but I rather liked the Paella there when I had it about 10-12 years ago. There was another Spanish restaurant on Pico in West L.A. which closed when one of the owners killed the...

My brother lives in San Francisco and swears there is no decent deli there. Thus, he always opts for Nate 'n’Al’s in Beverly Hills when he visits Los Angeles.

they wouldn’t do a tasting menu for you on a prior visit?). I live in L.A. and last night my husband and I finally went to Cut in Beverly Hills. The food was really quite superb, as were the service and atmosphere. If the...

it was a carton of chicken stock in the back of the second shelf which had leaked 3/4 of its contents. We all know what flows downhill- around and down the back of the pantry, pooled on the jam-packed lower shelves and the...

to the fancy-schmancy Beverly Hills restaurants that these are on par with? Here in LA, I don’t think I’ve ever spent over $100 on a meal for just two people, and that’s for a very special occasion (like a...

I think a lot of this depends on when you grew up and where you were. We lived in Ohio and various places in the 70’s where my mom had to make do with what she could find in the grocery stores (not much) and then we’d...