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Food as Art – Saison

January 26, 2015 | 1 Comments

Saison, with laser focused ingredient driven dishes, has in five years gone from popup to 3 star Michelin!

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Eating San Francisco – Zuni Cafe

January 23, 2015 | 0 Comments

Zuni is a bit of a San Francisco institution…

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Food as Art – Atelier Crenn

January 21, 2015 | 1 Comments

Atelier Crenn is an amazing culinary experience. It’s playful, poetic, and while a tad cerebral, quite delicious…

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Pistola with a Bang

January 19, 2015 | 2 Comments

Tonight’s dinner is themed around 1990s grand cru Burgundy, both colors. Why exactly we took this to an Italian Steakhouse is anyone’s guess, but that didn’t matter — we had a blast.

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Madang 621- Beef++

January 16, 2015 | 1 Comments

Madang 621 is LA K-Town Korean BBQ with an ultra cool and elegant interior…

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Return of the Han Dynasty

January 14, 2015 | 0 Comments

This year, right before Thanksgiving, we went back to my favorite Philadelphia Schezuan joint for some chili oil fun…

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Factoring Factory Kitchen

January 12, 2015 | 0 Comments

Amazing authentic pastas, killer porchetta, and some cannoli to die for…

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Ultimate Pizza New Year 2014

January 9, 2015 | 2 Comments

New Years Eve is Ultimate Homemade Pizza time again! Everything made from scratch, dough, tomato sauce, pesto, and the pizzas themselves…

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SOS – Wine Rescue

January 7, 2015 | 3 Comments

Like the last dinner of 2014, the first of 2015 is a crazy one: Amazing Spanish eats at Smoke Oil Salt and about 30 great wines…

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Hedonism at Sea Harbor

January 5, 2015 | 2 Comments

To celebrate New Years: Dim Sum!

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Truly Deeply Sick and Twisted 2

January 2, 2015 | 3 Comments

Almost certainly the most perverse novel I have ever read — and that’s saying a lot!

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Indian by the Beach

December 31, 2014 | 0 Comments

The last Hedonist meal of the year with host Avi for an epic Indian feast…

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Palace of Pepper

December 29, 2014 | 1 Comments

Szechuan continues to be one of my favorite Chinese regional cuisines. Power to the pepper!

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How many Saddles to Peak?

December 26, 2014 | 2 Comments

This was a total blow out event with some great game food and some really killer wines…

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The Power of Providence

December 23, 2014 | 4 Comments

Twenty three courses, six great wines, and four guys = epic!

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Ring the Ji Rong Gong

December 21, 2014 | 3 Comments

More Chinese food action. Ji Rong serves up a broad variety of Beijing style cuisine…

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The Hobbit: The Battle of 5,000 Animators

December 18, 2014 | 2 Comments

What happens when you expand 44 pages at the end of a novel into 144 minutes of film?

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Multitextured Maude

December 17, 2014 | 13 Comments

Maude is perhaps LA’s toughest reservation, a tiny 25 seat, one ingredient, one menu concept…

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Ruen Pair Rules

December 15, 2014 | 5 Comments

Need a Thai fix? Thaitown is the answer…

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Pheasant & Deer are Never Boaring

December 12, 2014 | 1 Comments

Kill it and eat it! Phong Dinh Vietnamese serves up a menagerie of creatures Yarom killed…

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