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    Jonathan Gold Reviews Rustic Canyon

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he reassesses Rustic Canyon , a wine bar in Santa Monica, now that Jeremy Fox is the chef.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the Los Angeles Times. This week he reassesses Rustic Canyon, a wine bar in Santa Monica, now that Jeremy Fox is the chef. He recommends the lavender almonds, the beets and berries salad, marinated olives, baby radishes, green pozole, raclette on toast and the pee wee potatoes in chicken giblet gravy.

    Rustic Canyon

    1119 Wilshire Blvd

    Santa Monica

    310-393-7050

    Find all of Jonathan's restaurant recommendations on the Good Food restaurant map.

    Music: "Rollerblades" by Eliza Doolittle

    The full episode

    7 of 9
    East LA's Donut Man, Wolfgang Puck's Oscar Menu, Hops Tea
    1. 0:00Donut Man of East LA
    2. 8:1220 Years of Cooking for the Red Carpet with Wolfgang Puck
    3. 16:36Market Report
    4. 23:11A Rare Craft Beer that's Never Been Bottled: Pliny the Younger
    5. 30:10Maltose Falcons
    6. 38:11Hops Tea at Grand Central Market
    7. 45:01Jonathan Gold Reviews Rustic CanyonYou’re reading this
    8. 52:17Tasty Pozole in Santa Ana
    9. 56:29The Breakfast Bible
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Gillian Ferguson

      Supervising Producer, Good Food

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Sarah Rogozen

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    The full episode

    7 of 9
    East LA's Donut Man, Wolfgang Puck's Oscar Menu, Hops Tea
    1. 0:00Donut Man of East LA
    2. 8:1220 Years of Cooking for the Red Carpet with Wolfgang Puck
    3. 16:36Market Report
    4. 23:11A Rare Craft Beer that's Never Been Bottled: Pliny the Younger
    5. 30:10Maltose Falcons
    6. 38:11Hops Tea at Grand Central Market
    7. 45:01Jonathan Gold Reviews Rustic CanyonYou’re reading this
    8. 52:17Tasty Pozole in Santa Ana
    9. 56:29The Breakfast Bible
    Back to Good Food