TV Dinners Served Up on Tonight’s ‘Top Chef’
Posted on October 28, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This week on a new Top Chef Las Vegas, the chef’testants are faced with a TV dinner Quickfire Challenge — inspired by a list of TV shows compiled by the editors of TV Guide.
The remaining chef’testants visit top judge [...]
Posted on October 27, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
David Chang, chef and owner of Momofuku and co-author of Momofuku: The Cookbook, cooks up cabbage kimchi with TODAY’s Matt Lauer. (My wife, however, makes the best kimchi, so you should contact her for the secret.)
Read More..>>Hot Stuff Cafe: Good for a ‘Hole in the Wall’
Posted on October 26, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
"Welcome to our hole in the wall," the waitress said as she beckoned us to our table at the Good Stuff Cafe in San Gabriel, Calif., one of the stops on my L.A. Restaurant Week poor man’s tour.
Actually, our entrance didn’t quite go that way. When we were seated, the waitress did enquire if we [...]
‘Top Chef’ Moves On Without Laurine: Can She Cook?
Posted on October 24, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
After watching this week’s "Restaurant Wars" episode of Top Chef (thank heaven they didn’t require the chefs to decorate their restaurants!), my only conclusion is that axed contestant Laurine was so afraid that her cooking couldn’t match up that she chose to run the front of the house–be the hostess and head waitperson. She failed [...]
Read More..>>Outtakes from the Oct. 21 ‘Top Chef’ Episode
Posted on October 22, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Here’s some footage from the "Restaurant Wars" episode of Top Chef that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at the life of the contestants:
SNAKE IN THE HOUSE:
CHEESE PUFF FIGHT:
Read More..>>Culver City Blossoms into Dining Destination of Choice
Posted on October 21, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I lived in what’s called in Los Angeles "The Westside" for probably half of my professional career, in places like Venice, Santa Monica and Mar Vista. At the time a city a bit inland from those oceanside areas was known for its great school district–and its absolutely nonexistence nightlife and restaurants. That was Culver City, [...]
Read More..>>Restaurant Wars Return to Tonight’s ‘Top Chef Las Vegas’
Posted on October 21, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
A Top Chef favorite –“Restaurant Wars”– is back with a vengeance! But first, for the Quickfire Challenge, the chefs are split into two teams to compete in a hand-off race for which they must contribute to completing one delicious dish. Will they be able to keep in sync with the chef before them to complete the perfect plate?
Then [...]
Charlie Palmer Guest Judge on ‘Top Chef’ Tonight
Posted on October 14, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Charlie Palmer, whose Aureole restaurant in Las Vegas stays in my mind as one of the most perfectly run and perfectly fun dining spots I’ve experienced, is the guest judge on tonight’s Top Chef. He was supposed to teach a cooking class that I attended at his Charlie Palmer Restaurant in Costa Mesa this past [...]
Read More..>>This BLT Needs No Bacon for the Ultimate in Taste
Posted on October 12, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I’d always read and heard great things about Chef Laurent Tourondel, so when Restaurant Week rolled around in Los Angeles, I targeted his BLT (Bistro Laurent Tourondel) Steak in Hollwyood as my 1A choice. My number-one choice, The Bazaar by Jose Andres, was on the list but proved impossible to get a reservation at a [...]
Read More..>>Catching Up with Jose Garces and Ashley Merriman
Posted on October 9, 2009 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Multi-restaurant owner and Next Iron Chef contestant Jose Garces just opened a burger joint because his wife won’t let him eat hamburgers at home. Wish I had that kind of entrepreneurial clout. Read his interview.
Top Chef eliminated contestant Ashley Merriman speaks her (seemingly) fair mind and announces she’s moving from Seattle to New York City. [...]
