La paz is in Calabasas, on Los Virgenes south of the 143. Its Yucatan style Mexican food. For me its the freshest, tastiest mexican food i’ve ever had. The trick there for me is to order a la carte. I usually get 2...

. While they were cooking (brought to a boil and cooked for 5 minutes, then drained), I chopped up some garlic and preheated the oven for the potatoes. Then I put a little olive oil in the pan that I was going to cook the...

medallions with peppers, onions and ake mushrooms in a veal reduction with thyme and goatcheese) and Crispy Skin-On Redfish (with fingerling potatoes, Swiss chard, crab butter sauce and served with jumbo lump crabmeat and basil...

months ago. I haven’t been to a banquet at Ocean Star in years, can’t comment. Re the cross-cultural element: lox and other smoked fish, chopped liver, cholent, knishes, strudel, cheesecake (assuming you can find a...

carp – delicious!) either Chinese (Hokkien) style, with ginger sauce or a dark sweetish soy-based sauce, or Indian-Malay style, in a red curried gravy with tomatoes and okra -Hakka mee – thin egg noodles topped with...

to be a variation on the Sicilian dish of spaghetti con le sarde (without the pine nuts) or maybe Mario Batali’s take on spaghetti con salsa (with anchovies, toasted bread crumbs, and caramelized onions). The dish was incredibly...

The Ecuadorian restaurant, Salinas, on 5th and I think 12th or 13th is a pretty solid take-out/delivery option. I have always found it to be a great bang for my buck. I typically order the fish and onions in yuca sauce, along...

"...take him to a mom and pop pizza joint like Savoy’s...not as Chowhoundish as Punch..." Oh, I beg to differ. Savoy rocks! Sausage, mushroom and onion...doesn’t get much better than that.

Molecular gastronomy reminds me of that Onion headline: "Concept Rock Band Theoretically Good."

bao; sweet-savory roast-pork filling tastily seasoned with honey and onions); deep-fried glutinous rice dumplings with savory pork filling (hom sui gok; crisp and greaseless); deep-fried sesame balls filled with lotus-seed paste...

four large potatoes – do not drain – and add as much chopped garlic and rosemary as you like, 1/4 cup flour and one beaten egg. Add salt and pepper. Mix well. Put some flour in a bowl, and beat an egg in another bowl...

Just moved from Silverlake to the Paseo Colordado area in Pasadena (no, not IN Paseo). I am very familiar with old town, but not so much with that area (Los Robles/Lake/Arroyo/Fair Oaks). The only places I know are Parkway, Chop...

's original BBQ because they want it to be like what they’ve had in Memphis, Texas, or Kansas City, but it is something else all together. Towards the coast, it is traditional to cook the whole hog, and the beauty of this...

or So Kong Dong...but its not something I would recommend. 5. Anything else? Ted’s Montana Grill is ok for a buffalo burger and onion rings, but I suspect convention crowds will be horrendous. Sorry to be so grim, but Atlanta...

tomatoes red onions La Brea Bakery bread Trader Joes is not a “main market” for me... it’s definitely a specialty place where I buy “adjuct food” for my fridge and pantry. And I strongly agree about...