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Student Wins Settlement in Lawsuit Against Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena

2013-06-18 13:07:02

It's been a long road in the dispute between the parent companies of Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena and the students who filed a class action suit alleging fraud against the culinary school. According...

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Cocktail Nerdom: The Algonquin Round Table + The Algonquin Cocktial

2013-06-18 12:08:40

It was in June of 1919 that the famed Algonquin Round Table came into being, a group of writers, editors, actors and agents who met regularly for lunch at New York's Algonquin Hotel. The group i...

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Free Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches This Week for Dexter Fans

2013-06-18 10:28:12

What do serial killers and ice cream sandwiches have in common? Maybe go watch Michael Shannon's wonderful film The Iceman, in which Chris Evans, minus the superhero outfit, drives an ice cream t...

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3 Weird But Great Ways to Get Your Mac And Cheese Fix

2013-06-18 09:39:12

If you love macaroni and cheese, like with the kind of rabid passion that might get you in fights with groups of hungry kindergartners, you might be happy, maybe even overjoyed, to learn that th...

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The End of the Road for Irv's Burgers?

2013-06-18 08:31:33

Well, this may actually be it. After years of thwarting attempts by the site's landowners to toss Irv's Burgers off the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Sweetzer in West Hollywood, Irv's owne...

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Eat Psy's Favorite Foods at Bibigo Korean Restaurant

2013-06-18 08:00:00

This summer at all three Los Angeles locations of the Korean restaurant Bibigo, Korean pop megastar Psy, also known as the King of YouTube -- or his actual name Park Jae-sang -- is everywhere. O...

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10 Best Restaurants in Downtown Los Angeles

2013-06-18 06:31:12

Once upon a time, eating well in downtown Los Angeles meant ducking into one of a very few fine dining palaces, where you would dine prettily at Water Grill or Patina, aesthetically if not physi...

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This Weekend: 5th Annual Korean BBQ Festival + CicLAvia

2013-06-18 06:00:00

A Korean barbecue dinner can be an event -- copious helpings of bulgogi matched with ice cold soju. So it stands that a gathering of Korean BBQ restaurants would make it a full-blown party, whic...

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Now Open: The Juice in Atwater Village

2013-06-17 14:15:37

Fresh juice spots are having a boom in L.A. right now, and the latest juice bar to hit the scene is The Juice in Atwater Village, which opened its doors last week. Owned by Elizabeth Halpern a...

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High Levels of Pesticides Found in Celestial Seasonings Tea

2013-06-17 12:44:57

A scathing report on Celestial Seasonings tea found that 91% of samples contained pesticide levels that exceed U.S. federal limits, Examiner.com reports. Sleeptime Kids Goodnight Grape was one ...

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3 Great Cold Noodle Dishes in Koreatown

2013-06-17 11:29:49

Forget the bulgogi and galbi. Instead, chill out in Koreatown with the coolest noodles around. You probably already know naengmyeon, the buckwheat noodles that come either in chilled broth or dr...

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Bartender Erik Ellestad Comes to the Eveleigh: A Night of Savoy Cocktails

2013-06-17 07:41:38

As cocktail books go, The Savoy Cocktail Book is neither precise -- it contains numerous forgotten ingredients (you mean an Aviation uses Crème de Violette?!) and botched measurements -- nor or...

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Meatless Mondays: Vegan Cooking at Mohawk Bend + A Recipe for Mole Pizza

2013-06-17 06:24:28

Since he took over the kitchen at Mohawk Bend last December, Erick Simmons has thrown out a few tools from his traditional chef's tool box. "I have no butter in my inventory. I haven't used it h...

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Lincoln Blvd. and Washington: Big Meatballs, Healthy Chinese + The Ever-Present Doughnut

2013-06-17 05:57:53

It's important to remember that strip malls can happen any time, anywhere. Sure, you might be used to catching miles and miles of them as you reach towards the suburbs, but sometimes there's a s...

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The iTray: Restaurant Invents Flying Drone Waiter Tray

2013-06-14 14:13:54

Ever wanted your food to fly at you on a whirling automated tray? Not really? No, me either. But if you're in London, you can have this fine experience, at a restaurant called YO! Sushi. They've...

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Opening Soon: Top Round Roast Beef in Mid-Wilshire

2013-06-14 13:02:00

We're well-served by tacos, burgers, and ramen in L.A. But when it comes to a classic roast beef sandwich, our main source is probably Arby's. Which says a lot. This could all change come Monday...

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5 Cocktail Lessons from Bartender and Comme Ca Guru Sam Ross

2013-06-14 10:21:40

In the modern bartending pantheon, Sam Ross is a fellow of epic proportions. Having helped his mother and sister open Ginger, a cocktail bar at the forefront of the Melbourne cocktail revolutio...

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The Undercover Vegetarian: Outback Steakhouse

2013-06-14 10:05:58

A vegetarian walks into an Outback Steakhouse. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, and a joke that won't end very well for the vegetarian. There's really no good reason any self-respecting v...

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Cookbook Author Mollie Katzen Begins a New Chapter

2013-06-14 08:30:00

When we talked with cookbook author Mollie Katzen in January, she was deep into book number 12, The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation, due out in September. During that...

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What's In Season at the Farmers Market: Summer Hoshigaki Persimmons from Peacock Family Farms

2013-06-14 07:30:00

Hoshigaki -- peeled, dried and hand-massaged persimmons -- are an old traditional food, usually reserved for celebrating the New Year. You start the process in the fall, leaving a stem attached...

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