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First Public Fruit Park Opens in South Bay; Adam Horton Joins Whist In other news, Ziggy Marley considers opening a local health food restaurant.
By Hadley Tomicki
Chef Shuffles
Jan. 10, 2013
Michael Aguilar Replacing Sally Camacho at WP24 Meanwhile, the Top Chef: Just Desserts competitor is working at The Jonathan Club.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Sept. 21, 2012
Margrit Mondavi Charms at WP at Bel-Air; Halle Berry Hits Osteria Drago The woman who helped put Napa on the map teaches us an important lesson about eye-contact.
By Hadley Tomicki
Grub Guide
Sept. 11, 2012
Eight L.A. Restaurants That Grow Their Own From Niki Nakayama’s organic Japanese garden to John Sedlar’s rooftop of aeroponic towers, these chefs deserve appluase for their extra efforts in bringing freshly plucked produce to our plates.
By Hadley Tomicki
Mixocalypse
July 19, 2012
WP24 Serving New $24 Cocktail It’s very much like a normal cocktail, but with some gold flakes and a whopping price tag.
By Hadley Tomicki
Noise Annoys
June 8, 2012
Local Restaurants Try to Avoid the Noise Nearly one-fifth of local diners complain that noise is our restaurants’ biggest issue.
By Hadley Tomicki
What China’s VP Ate at WP24 Last Friday Xi Jinping feasted on lo mein and honey fried chicken with gravy at Puck’s place.
By Hadley Tomicki
Chef Shuffles
Feb. 16, 2012
John Lechleidner Named New Chef de Cuisine at WP24 The chef has worked within Puck’s own empire for years, mostly in Vegas.
By Hadley Tomicki
Vol. 94 Pairs Wine with McSweetbreads, Now Soft-Open in Pasadena Phil Lee oversees an eclectic menu of global small plates in a room that looks like someone shrunk Bottega Louie.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Oct. 21, 2011
By Hadley Tomicki
Fall Flavor: 20 New Dishes to Look Forward to This Season From Mezze’s lamb bacon to Ashley James’ mini tortas carnitas, we’re looking forward to another savory season of inventive dishes as autumn returns.
By Hadley Tomicki
China Considers Emoticon Restaurant Grades; Water Grill Loses Its Top Amanda Baumgarten splits with Downtown’s seafood stronghold after seven months.
Who Will Compete Next on Top Chef: Just Desserts This season, your judges will be joined by a Beastie Boy, Francois Payard, and quite possibly a couple of Oompa Loompas.
By Hadley Tomicki
What You Missed at Taste of the Nation With great food and a committed sense of duty from the chefs, Taste of the Nation made for one of L.A.’s best tasting events of the year.
By Hadley Tomicki
WP24 Has a New Menu for the Rest of Us Wolfgang Puck’s luxe Chinese has suddenly become a lot more accessible with a $24 evening pre-fixe.
By Hadley Tomicki
Puck Gets Picked To Do The Cooking at Hotel Bel Air A smart move that could pique the interest of both old-timers and a new generation of moneybags.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Mar. 16, 2011
WP24 Pastry Chefs Bake Billy Crystal a Slice of the Big Apple Maybe all celebrities really want for their birthdays is the same thing every kid desires: A really cool birthday cake!
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Feb. 25, 2011
Jay-Z Hits Craft With Lebron James; The Kardashians Hold a Ghost Birthday Party A week of solid star sightings still gets dominated by the antics of the Kardashian clan.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Feb. 18, 2011
Jimmy Cliff Eats at SLS Hotel; Fred Savage Enjoys Mahon at Pal Cabron Grammy’s week brought Justin TImberlake, Cee-Lo Green, and Miranda Lambert out to eat in L.A.
By Hadley Tomicki
A Look at Lukshon’s Menu, In Photos Sang Yoon’s tribute to Asian cooking cuisine fits smoothly into the recent explosion of chef-driven explorations honored by the city’s most visionary toques
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
Jan. 20, 2011
Gold Crowns a New BBQ King; Patrick Kuh Picks 2010’s Best New Restaurants Los Angeles magazine puts Lazy Ox Canteen at the top of its list, while Capo vets do brisket and beef ribs just right in Van Nuys.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Critics
Dec. 30, 2010
The Restaurant Revolution S. Irene Virbila’s year in review–sort of.
By Lesley Balla
Duck You Sucker
Dec. 21, 2010
SinoSoul Defends Puck’s Duck Tony Chen produces photos from Asia that counter the critic’s recent slam on WP24’s Beijing duck.
By Hadley Tomicki
L.A.’s Five Best Pork Dishes A look at five new favorites poised to please the city’s cult of the other white meat.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
Nov. 18, 2010
WP24 Charms Gold, But Not With Its Chinese; Virbila Swoons for Cleo L.A. Weekly finds Puck’s luxury sky-scraping restaurant hit or miss, while L.A. Times is content with The Redbury’s trendy Hollywood scene.
By Hadley Tomicki
Chef Shuffles
Nov. 12, 2010
Chef Sara Johannes Joins WP24 Stephen Pyles might have exaggerated the exciting news.
By Hadley Tomicki
Food & Wine Does Another New Restaurants Listicle; Zagat Releases Their’F&W’ honors Torrisi, WP24, and American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, while Zagat figures out that people are eating out less.
By Jay Barmann
Debi Mazar Cooks for Midnight Mission; Van De Kamp Bakery Renovation Draws The actress says she “grew up on food stamps,” while a famous bakery’s face-lift in Glassell Park becomes mired in controversy.
By Hadley Tomicki
ABC Kitchen Is Esquire ’s Restaurant of the Year Plus the “Best New Restaurants”: Longman & Eagle in Chicago, Frances in S.F., and more.
By Helen Rosner
What You Missed At Wolfgang Puck’s AWFF 2010 Jose Andres made decadent tacos, Spago roasted an entire goat, and Nancy Silverton wore a funny inflatable hat.
By Hadley Tomicki
Celebrity Settings
Sept. 15, 2010
Kara Kilmer Cooks at LudoBites; Andy Dick Gets Loaded (Yet Again) at Bar Marmont While the comedian stumbles around Hollywood, a starlet puts in some time on the line at Ludo Lefebvre’s pop-up.
By Hadley Tomicki
N.Y. Times Intrepidly Ventures ‘A Few Miles East on the 10’ to Eat in A long list of new restaurants and classics are omitted as the Gray Lady “discovers” Downtown destination dining.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
Sept. 2, 2010
Kuh Hoped For More From Rick Bayless; J. Gold Sniffs Pork Vapors at Baek Hwa Los Angeles magazine finds more missteps than successes at Red O, while L.A. Weekly follows a restaurant recommendation from Roy Choi.
By Hadley Tomicki
What You Missed at Chef’s Night Out 2010 Angeleno handed out restaurant awards to their picks of the year’s best toques.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
July 15, 2010
Virbila Deems First & Hope Vibrant; Gold Not Too Impressed by Xoia Shelly Cooper keeps The L.A. Times entertained while Vietnamese-Mexican fusion fails to impress L.A. Weekly .
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
July 8, 2010
Gold Digs Bloody Clams and Waterloo & City; Kuh Confounded By District Meanwhile, S. Irene Virbila lets WP24’s awesome views and menu distract her from the contemporary pop music.
By Hadley Tomicki
Superlatives
June 30, 2010
Brad A. Johnson Tweets His Restaurant Award Winners His top ten list of best new restaurants contains at least one big surprise.
By Hadley Tomicki
Philippe Chow Goes Half-Steam Ahead This Summer Healthy Chinese doesn’t make us want to skip Wolfgang Puck’s indulgent new take, but we welcome the help come beach-time.
By Hadley Tomicki
The Other Critics
May 13, 2010
First & Hope Grabs Gold’s Ring ; Alan Richman Blew the San Gabriel Gold is split over Shelly Cooper’s food and calls out a writer at GQ for his Chinese food coverage.
By Hadley Tomicki
First Look at Wolfgang Puck’s WP24 iCrave shows restraint to highlight WP24’s best design feature.
By Hadley Tomicki
Wolfgang Puck’s WP24 Opens Downtown at The Ritz-Carlton The Chinois and Spago chef seeks to have the last word on upscale Chinese.
By Hadley Tomicki
Wolfgang Puck Plans WP24 on Top of New Ritz-Carlton An Asian-inspired fine dining is coming Downtown from Spago’s creator.
By Hadley Tomicki
