LA's legendary restaurants, Gwen, cardoons, Dock to Dish 2.0

Hosted by Evan Kleiman Mar. 25, 2017 Food & Drink

Melissa Clark switches up the dinner game with her latest cookbook, “Dinner,” and George Geary shares stories of the iconic restaurants where’s Tinseltown’s elite once dined. Jonathan Gold treats himself to meat from the butcher shop at Gwen, and Michael Cimarusti makes a pitch for a new seafood tracking system called Dock to Dish 2.0. Plus: Chef Casey Thompson shops for cardoons at the Santa Monica Farmers Market.

From this Episode:

Dinner: Changing the Game

New York Times columnist Melissa Clark is on a mission to switch up the dinner game. She puts her money where her mouth is with her new cookbook, “Dinner: Changing the...

13 min

Jonathan Gold dines at Gwen

This week, LA Times Food Critic Jonathan Gold treats himself to the tasting menu at Gwen , the restaurant run by Chef Curtis Stone and his brother in Hollywood.

10 min

LA's Legendary Restaurants

After 92 years in business, Formosa Cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard quietly closed in January. The restaurant joins a long list of shuttered Hollywood institutions like...

12 min

The Market Report: Cardoons

Cardoons, or artichoke thistles as they’re sometimes called, bear pretty pink blooms and are in the sunflower family. Former Top Chef contestant and chef Casey Thompson...

7 min

Dock to Dish 2.0

Since 90 percent of the seafood we eat in the US is imported, traceability is a huge issue. Sampling has shown that half of the seafood on the market is mislabeled or sold...

15 min