The Taste Delivers, With a Side of Jonathan Gold’s Fine Food Expertise
If you surveyed most foodies in Southern California, they would tell you that The Taste, held over three days of Labor Day weekend, is the place to go to enjoy not only well-known and hugely loved food and beverage favorites from some of L.A.’s top places and prestige vendors, but to sample and savor new items from up-and-coming restaurants and other purveyors. Five separate events featured dishes from 110 of LA’s best restaurants...
Three Days of Food and Fun at The Taste LA with SoCal’s Finest
Could it have been the Ernesto Burger, a fresh ground ribeye and short rib patty with beer-battered jalapeno, aged Gruyere, grilled pork belly, caramelized kimchi and charred onion aioli on a smoked salt-and-pepper brioche bun? Or maybe it was Hyde Sunset’s roasted veal with pickled shallot and mustard greens. And then there was Taco Maria’s tostadita de ceviche, with cured Japanese seabass on a crispy seaweed and corn wafer. And how...
The Incomparable Taste, SoCal’s Deliciously Diverse Food Festival
It’s become the gold standard of food festivals in Southern California. The Taste, held over three days of Labor Day weekend, is the place to go not only to enjoy food and beverage favorites from some of L.A.’s top places and prestige vendors, but to sample and savor new items from up-and-coming restaurants and other purveyors. The popular festival is held on the backlot of Paramount Pictures Studios— with much of the action taking...
Tough Times for Newspaper Subscribers
In this era of newspapers bleeding red ink, cutting staff and losing subscribers, one would think these old media entities would do all they could to keep what they have. That was why it was a particularly rude awakening as a longtime Los Angeles Times subscriber to come back from vacation – a rather lengthy one at that – to find out some really bad news over my morning coffee. (The good news was that they had caught the...