I’ve created a new index to celebrate the bounty of Chinese food fair Los Angeles has to offer…
The San Gabriel Valley offers a near endless bounty of fabulous Chinese. New Bay Seafood serves up a bounty of Hong Kong / Chiu Chow style seafood and roast meats, and it really is a bounty…
Tonkatsu, or deep fried pork cutlet, is traditionally accompanied by cabbage and its own special sauce. This one, is folded and laced with cheese!
Azeen’s Afghani in Pasadena continues to offer up the amazing flavors of this unusual crossroads. Influences from Persia, China, India, Greece, and the Middle East all muddle together into a delicious mix…
My recipe for this ultimate reference pasta — cacio e pepe. Literarily, it means “cheese & pepper” and it’s an extremely basic pasta from Rome that showcases its extremely few ingredients…
What a way to kick off the 2014 dining year! First rate Burgundy and some of LA’s hottest cooking. Walter Manzke has taken classic French flair and made it oh so today…
Our final Hedonist outing of 2013 sees us snarfing up snails in curry sauce, Yarom’s home-shot deer sausage and boar curry, and even a bit of roast goat…
Playground is aptly named, as this hip, intensely chef driven restaurant far away in un-hip Santa Ana is up for anything. But whacky tasty food and no corkage makes it a great find for us winos…
The tapas revolution has spread not only to Washington D.C., but also across the Tyrolean sea to Italian inspired cuisine…
Michael’s on Naples hosts our final “fancy” Hedonist event of the year, and oh boy, was this a doozy, with 15+ world class Italian dishes, 20 fab wines, and even a girl-on-girl make-out session!
Many people consider Newport Seafood one of the best Chinese restaurants in Southern California. Certainly, they have some of the biggest crabs!
After days of eating, what better way to kick of Saturday morning with more, a genuine Philadelphia deli brunch…
The Hedonists finish the year with a series of huge events, including this all First Growth Bordeaux steak dinner…
Twice a year we Hedonists climb into the mountains for some serious good times at Saddle Peak Lodge. And what better to go with game meat than… red wine!
Is this a meat flower? No, more like some homemade middle eastern meat balls…
LA has a lot of good Italian, and this Roman-style meal at Gusto just adds one more great new place to the pile. 20 bottles of wine didn’t hurt either…
The turkeys run away in terror when its time for the annual 2013 ThanksGavin feast…
The 2013 annual ThanksGavin kicks off with an ingredient driven New American meal in one of Philadelphia’s hippest neighborhoods…
The idea of trying all the 99 and 100 points 2009 Bordeaux at one dinner might seem kinda crazy, infanticide even, but Papa Silenus told me to “bring it on” — plus there were truffles!
In honor of turkey day, a look back on over a decade of previous Gavin festivals of gluttony…
