The Royal Wedding; Tequila; Eating out with Kids

Guest Interview

Market Report ()

Walter Manzke is the consulting chef at Le Saint Amour in Culver City (9725 Culver Blvd, Culver City, (310) 842-8155).  Plans for his new restaurant are currently in the works.  He is buying rhubarb at the farmers market which he is using for a Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp (get the recipe).  

Tom Peltier sells decolate snails and other beneficial insects at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.  Decolate snails eat garden snails that can ravage vegetable gardens.  Ladybugs are also helpful as they eat aphids and other soft insects.  To prevent the ladybugs from flying away, spritz them with soda.  

Guest Interview

The Royal Wedding ()

Darren McGrady is a former Royal Chef and the author of Eating Royally.  Ideas for a Royal Wedding viewing party are here.  

Guest Interview

Son of a Gun ()

Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly.  This week he recommends Son of a Gun, the new, all-seafood restaurant from Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, the guys behind Animal.  The restaurant serves small-plate seafood dishes, with an occasional fried chicken sandwich thrown in.  Jonathan likes the Geoduck, fried chicken, smoked steelhead roe, Alaskan halibut, and the aligator schnitzel.

Son of a Gun
8370 West 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA
(323) 782-9033

All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant suggestions are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.  

Guest Interview

Eating out with Kids ()

Jessica Ritz writes the blog Taster Tots LA, which highlights restaurants that are kid-friendly.  

BREAKFAST

Farmshop (225 26th Street #25 Santa Monica, (310) 566-2400)

BLD (7450 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 930-9744)

Canele (3219 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 666-7133)

LUNCH

Golden State (426 North Fairfax Avenue, Los Angeles, (323) 782-8331)

DINNER

Mercado La Paloma (3655 S Grand Ave # 240, Los Angeles, (213) 748-1963)

The Hungry Cat (1535 Vine Street, Los Angeles, (323) 462-2155)

Kabuki (1545 Vine Street, Los Angeles, (323) 464-6003)

Guest Interview

A Trip to Solvang ()

Good Food contributor Eddie Lin writes the blog Deep End Dining.  He was in Solvang, CA for The Taste of Solvang.  A recipe for traditional Danish Aebleskivers is on The Good Food Blog.

Guest Interview

Honey Bee Update ()

Eric Mader is the Assistand Director of the Xerces Society's Pollinator Conservation Program.  Information on pollinator wildflowers in California are here.  More resources for California are here.  

Guest Interview

Tequilas and Mezcals ()

Fred Warner is the Beverage Manager for Malo and Mas Malo restaurants. Silver tequila is aged up to 59 days.  Reposado is aged from 59-9 months.  More than that is añejo or extra-añejo.  Silver is recommended for mixed drinks like margaritas.  Fred recommends the following tequilas and mezcals:

TEQUILA

El Jimador

Fortaleza

Gran Centenario Leyenda

Asombroso

Don Fulano

Abandondo

MEZCAL

Del Maguey

Agave de Cortes

Guest Interview

Final Pho ()

Gustavo Arellano is the Managing Editor of the OC Weekly.  He and the staff of their food blog, Stick a Fork in It, did a March Madness tournament where they ranked Pho restaurants in Orange County.  It was called The Final Pho.  The winner was Pho Thanh Lich (14500 Brookhurst St., Westminster, (714) 531-5789).