(Gerry Furth-Sides) Tommy Tang’s breezy, animated celebrity-filled restaurant with its reputation as serving the absolutely best modern Thai cuisine anywhere is closed now, and yet it still parallels his life. Just as the restaurant catapulted Melrose Avenue to international fame, so Tommy introduced and ignited the publi...
Owner and Founder, Terry Heller of Plan Check Kitchen + Bar follows the company policy with each new location featuring a nod to ethnic neighborhood fare. The K-BBQ BURGER ($15) honors its Korean neighborhood home with a grilled pork belly, kimchee, sprouting onion, gochujang bbq sauce, sesame salt and fried onions. The crul...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) In anticipation of the rosé season and summer entertaining, the story about this double Rosé release of 2017 Domaine de Cala Rosé and2017 Domaine de Cala Prestige Rosé, a brand created by celebrated Chef Joachim Splichal, famed Los Angeles-based Patina Restaurant Group Founder. The family-owned and o...
This is Oregon wine country at it’s best–a glorious Pinot Noir paired with an equally glorious view. The wine is from Brandborg Vineyard & Winery in Elkton, a tiny AVA in the far northwest of the Umpqua Valley in southern Oregon. There are just seven labels in the Elkton AVA (American Viticultural Area), which w...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Executive Chef Shigefumi Tachibe, the mastermind Executive Chef of the CHAYA Restaurant Group, has moved to his own, more personal kitchen, Osawa in Pasadena. It’s as if you found Beatle Ringo Star casually playing in a suburban London corner pub. //localfoodeater.com/new-contemporary-japanes...
(Gerry Furth-sides, photos courtesy of Applegate, French’s Mustard and Mimi’s Cafe). Three food imports for the table have become American staples, perfect for the Fourth July holiday and all year, Applegate, the nation’s leading natural and organic meat brand under the historic Hormel umbrella, is the C...
(Roberta Deen, food stylist, photographer) Simple Mills is a thriving young company founded by Katlin Smith. She holds the firm belief that clean “intentional ingredients” can be combined to create wholesome baked goods, easily used by home cooks. Each of the Simple Mills mixes is printed with clear instructions and ...
Southern cooking today isn’t just grits, fried chicken, peach cobbler and the like. It’s also Chinese char siu pork, Mexican posole, Thai larb, Venezuelan arepas and Korean grilled beef ribs. These are among the 80 recipes in “Secrets of the Southern Table” by Virginia Willis, a book that is as much about...
Bokksu Founder, Danny Taing, is becoming known as the “ambassador of Japanese snacks,” selling a million snacks to over 75 countries around the world in his company’s first two years in business. The company offers the only gourmet snack box sourced and curated directly from local snack makers in Japan, has grown...
This month I deviate from my policy that all five tastes must be reasonably local, meaning in and around Los Angeles. The outsider comes from Oregon, fries so good you’ll want to go there just to try them....
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 