Bates Colleen Dunn - Eat, Los Angeles: the food lovers guide to Los Angeles

Copyright 2012 by Prospect Park Media

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2011934243
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Bates, Colleen Dunn

Los Angeles / Colleen Dunn Bates

p.cm.

ISBN: 978-0-9844102-8-6

1. Los Angeles (Calif.) Guidebooks. 2. Los Angeles County (Calif.)

Food / Restaurants.

I. Bates, Colleen Dunn. II. Title.

Fourth edition, first printing

Production in the United States of America.
Design by Joseph Shuldiner.
Printed in China by Imago Group.

[ABOUT THE AUTHORS]

COLLEEN DUNN BATES (editor and publisher) was the American editor of the Gault Millau guides (including The Best of Los Angeles ) and the restaurant critic for L.A. Style . Now she writes about restaurants for Westways and heads up Prospect Park Media, which publishes EAT: Los Angeles , the Hometown books, Helen of Pasadena, Celebrating with Julienne, The Spa Less Traveled and other titles, sites and apps. A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Colleen lives in Pasadena.

JEAN T. BARRETT is a food and wine writer whose articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times , Westways, Sky and Wine Spectator , among other publications. The Hollywood Hills resident has also co-authored three books with Colin Cowie, including Colin Cowie Weddings (Little, Brown).

LINDA BURUM is the author of A Guide to Ethnic Food in Los Angeles (Harper Collins) among other books, and she writes regularly about L.A.s culinary worldwith a particular focus on ethnic cuisinesfor the Los Angeles Times and Los Angeles magazine. She lives in Santa Monica.

MILES CLEMENTS writes about food for the Los Angeles Times and others. The Long Beach-area resident (and native) also roams the South Bayand, indeed, all of L.A.for his blog , Eat Food With Me .

JENN GARBEE reports on all things ingestible for the Los Angeles Times, Squid Ink (the L.A. Weekly s food blog) and Tribune Medias national food and beverage wire. She is the author of Secret Suppers (Sasquatch Books) and co-author of Hometown Santa Monica (Prospect Park Books). This former pastry chef sidelines as a food stylist and kids cooking teacher.

AMELIA SALTSMAN is the author of The Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook (Blenheim Press). The L.A. native and longtime Santa Monican also writes about cooking, markets and food for such magazines as Bon Appetit and is a regular guest on Evan Kleimans Good Food show on KCRW.

PAT SAPERSTEIN is the intrepid eater behind Eating L.A. (eatingla.com), one of L.A.s most respected food blogs. The South Pasadena resident is also a senior editor at Variety .

ELINA SHATKIN was born in the Ukraine, educated at UCLA, and has worked as an entertainment-industry reporter/editor and food writer. She currently writes about food and drink for the L.A. Weekly and Squid Ink .

JOSEPH SHULDINER is EAT: Los Angeles s art director and a contributor to Eat-LA.com. An L.A. native, this artist and former Los Angeles Times designer is also a passionate cook. He produced the hit cookbook Celebrating with Julienne and is about to publish his own book, Pure Vegan (Chronicle).

[ THE REST OF THE TEAM ]

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SPECIAL THANKS to L.A.s passionate and interconnected food-journalism community, especially the Chowhounds; the Yelpers; the Los Angeles Times Food section; Jessica Gelt and the gang at the Times s Daily Dish; Jonathan Gold, Amy Scattergood and friends at the L.A. Weekly and its blog, Squid Ink ; Patrick Kuh and Lesley Bargar Suter at Los Angeles magazine; Evan Kleiman and Good Food (KCRW); Tasting Table ; Merrill Shindler; the Hometown books and their authors; Citysearch.com; and the many great blogs, including EatingLA.com, LA.Eater.com, FoodGPS, la.foodblogging, Rameniac.com, GreatTacoHunt.com, Vegetarians in Paradise (vegparadise.com), Tuna Toast (tokyoastrogirl.com), GastronomyBlog.com and L.A. & O.C. Foodventures . Finally, heaps o gratitude and an extra hot dog to our radio partner, John Rabe at 89.3 KPCC.

[ABOUT EAT: LOS ANGELES 2012]

THE LAST YEAR WAS A BIG ONE for EAT: Los Angeles . We sold out of books by July, became radio partners with KPCC, launched an iPhone and iPad app, added Elina Shatkin to our writing team, and generally had one hell of a good time eating and drinking our way across Los Angeles. Like countless Angelenos, we delighted in the explosion of places serving and/or making craft beer. We reveled in the juxtaposition of opposing trends: on the one hand, pork was everywhere , and on the other, vegan cooking came into its own. We told each other about our finds: a sandwich place in Highland Park, a pizzeria on Beverly, an outdoor caf in South Pasadena, a gourmet market in Brentwood, a soda fountain in Canoga Park, a Vietnamese gastropub in Alhambra, a casual wine bar Downtown, an accomplished restaurant in Malibu.

So now were sharing all those finds in this new book, which has been thoroughly updated and enriched with new discoveries. And after hearing so many of you ask us, Whats your favorite restaurant? weve added a new section called Favorites, which is basically short lists of our teams personal favorites in all sorts of areas, from brunch to beer.

This 2012 edition may be updated and improved, but it is still by no means a comprehensive guidethat would be so massive you couldnt lift it. EAT: Los Angeles is, however, a broad-ranging book, in terms of geography, cuisines and price points. Most of all, its a discerning onewe dont have every single restaurant in Koreatown, for instance, but we point you toward our favorites. Our goal is to give you interesting, thoughtful, delicious choices in every category across L.A. County. And we explore the food world far beyond restaurants, because if you like to eat, you want to know about worthwhile cheese shops, caterers, taco trucks, farmers markets and everything that has to do with living a gustatorily rewarding life in Los Angeles.