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…
It begins, the Game of Thrones season 4 trailer is here and it looks pretty badass as usual…
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…
For some mysterious reason Uber does not list the cars that are acceptable for use under UberX on their website, so I found out and put it here — oh, plus some random thoughts on their intriguing new business model…
Blizzard takes on the “wizard duel” category of Trading Card game — virtually — with their usual polish and playability…
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…
Nearly three hours of geek heaven: dwarves in barrels, elves dancing on their heads, and a dragon coiled inside a mountain of gold!
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!
If the nature of government and the power of the state is of any interest to you, this book contains a fascinating story, that despite 2000 years passage, remains completely relevant…
Is this a meat flower? No, more like some homemade middle eastern meat balls…
There’s a bunch of Naughty Dog news in the air that I thought worth commenting on…
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…