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Umamicatessen - Umami Restaurant Group
umami  restaurants  losangeles  food  from delicious
26 days ago by robertogreco
When Meals Played the Muse - New York Times
"From the beginning, the idea was to establish not only a kind of perpetual dinner party but also a food-based philanthropy that would employ and support struggling artists, the whole endeavor conceived by Matta-Clark as a living, breathing, steaming, pot-clanging artwork.

“To Gordon, I think everything in life was an art event,” said Ms. Goodden, who now lives in a small town in New Mexico. “He had cooking all through his mind as a way of assembling people, like choreography. And that, in a way, is what Food became.”

In a catalog to accompany his retrospective, Elisabeth Sussman, the curator of the Whitney show, describes it as providing “the best picture of an artists’ utopia, in all its extraordinary ordinariness, that Matta-Clark imagined.”"
tinagirouard  robertfrank  rirkrittiravanija  filippomarinetti  thefuturistcookbook  philipglass  counterculture  alicewaters  robertkushner  trishabrown  1974  1971  janecrawford  hisachikatakahashi  robertrauschenberg  lcproject  openstudioproject  srg  cooking  donaldjudd  carolinegoodden  artists  allankaprow  supperclubs  dinnerparties  happenings  127prince  2007  nyc  restaurants  glvo  art  matta-clark  from delicious
6 weeks ago by robertogreco
Conflict Kitchen
"Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict. The food is served out of a take-out-style storefront that rotates identities every six months to highlight another country.  Each iteration of the project is augmented by events, performances, and discussions that seek to expand the engagement the public has with the culture, politics, and issues at stake within the focus country. These events have included live international Skype dinner parties between citizens of Pittsburgh and young professionals in Tehran, Iran; documentary filmmakers in Kabul, Afghanistan; and community radio activists in Caracas, Venezuela."
kabul  tehran  iran  caracas  venezuela  afghanistan  restaurants  culture  politics  food  pittsburgh  from delicious
9 weeks ago by robertogreco
Panda Express Takes Sweet And Sour Beyond The Food Court : The Salt : NPR
"…points to success of Sriracha…says Americans are craving a flavor profile Panda's well-positioned to provide.

"The spiciness, that teriyaki flavor. Those different types of sour & tart & tangy…really starting to become more appealing. In fact, if you just look at the kids' aisle for candy…that's most of the types of food we see. Very tart & sour flavors are what kids are looking for."

So are older kids, like college students who routinely devour Korean food & seek out Korean-influenced frozen yogurt, like Pinkberry. It's reflective of a changing American palate. Tristano says there are about 40,000 Asian restaurants in US that represent about 13% of all full service sales.

"Compared to Italian at about 11%," he observes. "Now Italian used to be larger than Asia, but the 2 have flipped over the past 2 years."

…admits "Asian" seems like ridiculously broad category compared to Italian, but it's in Panda's interest to play up pan-Asian approach; 1 stop for Chinese, Korean & Thai."
2012  restaurants  sriracha  chinese  korean  thai  us  asian  food  trends  pandaexpress  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Made Better in Japan - WSJ.com
"For decades, Japan simply imported the wares of foreign cultures, but recession has led to invention. The country has begun creating the finest American denim, French cuisine and Italian espresso in the world. Now is the time to visit."

"During the robust economy of the '80s, Japan's exports ruled, and the country would import the best that money could buy from the rest of the globe, including Italian chefs and French sommeliers. Which made Japan an haute bourgeoisie heaven where luxury manufacturers from the West expected skyrocketing sales forever.

But now 20-plus years of recession have killed that dream. Louis Vuitton sales are plummeting, and magnums of Dom Pérignon are no longer being uncorked at a furious pace. That doesn't mean the Japanese have turned away from the world. They've just started approaching it on their own terms, venturing abroad and returning home with increasingly more international tastes and much higher standards…"

[See also Stateside: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/adam-davidson-craft-business.html ]
daikisuzuki  engineeredgarments  hyperspecialization  hospitality  hotels  apprenticeships  tiny  small  quintessence  shuzokishida  restaurants  kansai  tokyo  hitoshitsujimoto  realmccoy's  nylon  magazines  jeans  craft  coffee  denim  detail  perfection  food  fashion  lifestyle  economics  luxury  japan  scale  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
The Speculist » Blog Archive » In the Future Everything Will Be A Coffee Shop
"Eventually you could have local campuses becoming places where MITx students seek tutoring, network, & socialize—reclaiming some of the college experience they’d otherwise have lost.

Phil thought this sounded like college as a giant coffee shop. I agree. Every education would be ad hoc. It would be student-directed toward the job market she’s aiming for.

This trend toward…coffeeshopification…is changing more than just colleges:

Book Stores Will Shrink to Coffee Shops…

The Coffee Shop Will Displace Most Retail Shops…

Offices Become Coffee Shops…Again…

What Doesn’t Become a Coffee Shop?…

…houses of worship…

What will remain other than coffee shops? Upscale retail will remain…[for] experience…Restaurants remain. Grocery stores remain.

Brick and mortar retail stores will be converted to public spaces. Multi-use space will be in increasing demand as connectivity tools allow easy coordination of impromptu events…"
restaurants  multipurpose  multi-usespace  impromptuevents  events  coffeeshopification  thirdspaces  thirdplaces  howwelearn  howwework  work  enlightenment  stevenjohnson  amazonprime  amazon  shopping  espressobookmachine  coffeehouses  coffeeshops  coffee  on-demandprinting  highereducation  higheredbubble  highered  information  reading  ebooks  stephengordon  future  retail  deschooling  unschooling  sociallearning  self-directedlearning  mitx  mit  learning  srg  glvo  2011  _universities  colleges  education  opencoffeeclubdresden  3dprinting  ondemand  ondemandprinting  bookfuturism  books 
february 2012 by robertogreco
INSPIRE / NEWS & ARTICLES | Design Indaba
"Besides gearing up for World Design Capital 2012, Helsinki is undergoing a food revolution enabled by the temporary, experimental nature of pop-up restaurants."
2012  trends  temporary  pop-uprestaurants  pop-upcafes  restaurants  food  international  finland  helsinki  popup  pop-ups  from delicious
january 2012 by robertogreco
Food | KCET
Nice redesign  of the KCET food page
kcet  food  socal  losangeles  cooking  restaurants  recipes  srg  glvo  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
SOCAL FOOD
"KCET.org’s Tumblr about food in Los Angeles and Southern California. We've mixed our own pics and posts, with others that we have found on the web."
food  blogs  kcet  socal  california  restaurants  cooking  losangeles  sandiego  srg  glvo  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
Outerlands is a gathering place for sea goers who seek warmth | Outerlands
Also at: http://twitter.com/outerlandssf
restaurants  sanfrancisco  food  srg  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
BUNK sandwiches
food  portland  oregon  restaurants 
august 2011 by robertogreco
La Stazione Café, My Most Favorite Coffee Shop Ever, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico «
"However, my ultimate coffee shop, my most favorite out of the 3489320842 shops I’ve tried in my life, has been 49th Parallel in Vancouver for a while now. That was until this past Saturday when 49th Parallel was dethroned as being my ultimate most favorite shop ever. That title now belongs to La Stazione Café, located in Tijuana, Mexico."
tijuana  togo  coffee  restaurants  food  drink  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Flavors of East Africa
"We are a Kenyan inspired cuisine located in beautiful San Diego, California. We have been serving our loyal customers at various Farmers Markets for several years and are pleased to have opened a restaurant. The restaurant is located in the North Park/ University Heights area at 2302 El Cajon Blvd, San Diego CA, 92104. Open on Monday to Sunday from 12pm to 10pm. We welcome everyone to visit us and enjoy a delicious, authentic Kenyan meal."<br />
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[via: http://www.yelp.com/biz/flavors-of-east-africa-san-diego via: http://sdurban.com/?p=1238 ]
sandiego  northpark  food  restaurants  african  kenya  africa  togo  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Tacos at El Greco | Dig in Mexico
"El Greco seemed a bit confused to us at first. Their signature plate is “pan arabe” with “doneraky”. That translates to the taco filling, al pastor in pita bread, and no offense to pita, but why bother when you can have tortillas with your taco? Still, we learned a valuable lesson: don’t judge a doneraky stand by it’s eccentric bread options. Al pastor was adopted by lebanese immigrants and their shwarma, it’s layered pork roasting slowly on a spit and then thinly sliced off- in this case onto our homemade corn tortillas, accompanied by a layer of cheese, onions and cilantro. This combo of cheese and al pastor is often referred to as a “gringa”, which makes us like it even more.<br />
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So how does one find a good taco stand among the hundreds of taco stands in Mexico? Ask your bartender (that’s what we did). El Greco sits on a busy corner in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City, making it a perfect spot for post, pre, or in between drinks."
food  mexico  mexicodf  df  restaurants  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Mika Savela: One Day Restaurants
"Helsinki, although clean and orderly (and a high-ranking “liveable city”, among the Vancouvers and Zürichs of the world), can seem oddly quiet, regulated and rigid to a traveler’s eye. Last saturday (21th of May) something unheard-of happened. Ordinary people all around the city took part in “Restaurant Day”. Several one-day restaurants opened up (…illegally) to serve dinners at homes, drinks on the street and picnics in the park. Here are some of the restaurants in action."
food  helsinki  via:javierarbona  restaurants  popuprestaurants  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
*the* menu at Sora Margherita | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"Sora Margherita has one menu..as in 1 handwritten list that gets passed around to all of the tables with items crossed off as they run out."
soramargherita  menus  restaurants  design  italy  italia  food  simplicity  slow  slowfood  slowness  sustainability  handwriting  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Eating the whole hog | Marketplace From American Public Media
"CHAD COLBY: I just referred to it recently as pig tetris.

Tetris, like the computer game where you have to fit the pieces together. Pig tetris is coming up with ways to cook and sell all the parts of the pig. Some bits are easy: loin, belly. And then some are tougher: like the spine, feet, and tail.

COLBY: I cook it all off the head and make what we call a nose-to-tail salami, and that becomes the pig tetris finale."
tetris  pigtetris  food  sustainability  butchers  2011  marketplace  waste  chadcolby  restaurants  pork  pigs  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Food Raves Gain in Popularity - NYTimes.com
"In a sense it is civil disobedience on a paper plate.<br />
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The underground market seeks to encourage food entrepreneurship by helping young vendors avoid roughly $1,000 a year in fees — including those for health permits and liability insurance — required by legitimate farmers markets. Here, where the food rave — call it a crave — was born, the market organizers sidestep city health inspections by operating as a private club, requiring that participants become “members” (free) and sign a disclaimer noting that food might not be prepared in a space that has been inspected."
food  sanfrancisco  anarchy  anarchism  popuprestaurants  restaurants  eating  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
RICE PAPER SCISSORS
"Rice Paper Scissors was created by Valerie Luu (Little Knock) and Katie Kwan (KitchenSidecar), two Vietnamese street food vendors in San Francisco who love sitting on small stools.<br />
Inspired by the sidewalk dining and street food we experienced in Vietnam, we wanted to recreate the experience here in the Mission — complete with small tables, even smaller stools, fresh Vietnamese condiments, Cambodian pop music, and a rotating menu of Vietnamese comfort foods.<br />
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Our cafe will pop up on front porches, garages, and sidewalks and when we’re not figuring out what kitschy Asian housewares to buy, you can find us at various street food events and monthly at the SF Underground Market."
vietnamese  food  sanfrancisco  ricepaperscissors  via:faketv  popuprestaurants  restaurants  pop-ups  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
When in San Francisco, go to Mission Chinese... - Covenger & Kester
"When in San Francisco, go to Mission Chinese Food:

"The hole-in-the-wall at 2234 Mission Street in San Francisco looks more like a greasy spoon where General Tso’s chicken is ordered by number than a cult outpost offering quirky, responsibly sourced Chinese food. Inside, it’s both. Danny Bowien and Anthony Myint, who ran the pop-up Mission Street Food out of Lung Shan restaurant, are now cooking here permanently with Mission Chinese Food. Alongside Lung Shan’s menu, you can now indulge in what Mr. Bowien calls “whimsical Chinese” — sizzling cumin lamb, ma po tofu, barbecued brisket braised with a Mexican/Coca-Cola gastrique. “It’s not fusion,” he said. “It’s not fine dining. It’s not authentic. It’s not from one region. We’re just trying to do everything backwards.”"

Or, you know, just fly there for a meal."
food  chinese  sanfrancisco  restaurants  popup  pop-ups  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
One dish is served free -- with gratitude -- at Cafe Gratitude | Daily Dish | Los Angeles Times
"There’s one dish at Café Gratitude, the new vegan restaurant on North Larchmont Boulevard in Los Angeles, that stands out from the others. It’s called the I Am Grateful bowl. Piled high with shredded kale, quinoa, black beans and garlic-tahini sauce, it's filling, flavorful, healthful and free.<br />
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That's right. $0. The cafe says it’s the "community supported grain bowl" and lists the dish's suggested value ($7) but doesn't require payment. You can order the dish and pay nothing or something, or pay the suggested value and add a donation for those who can't pay. It doesn't matter how much is in your wallet."
food  free  grace  gratitude  losangeles  restaurants  cefégratitude  2011  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Restaurant Map | Good Food
food  maps  jonathangold  losangeles  orangecounty  gustavoarellano  eddielin  restaurants  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
DesignInquiry
"non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in intensive team-based gatherings. An alternative to the design conference, it brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work & ideas around a single topic.<br />
…selects a topic to explore at an intensive gathering of presentations, discussions, & workshops. We invite professionals, educators & students of diverse disciplines to contribute to the topic in any way they think is appropriate. We share these responses, while working toward a publication that binds the outcome: a free-to-download boost of information, meant to inspire & inform its readers.<br />
…an alternative to one-way delivery of a standard conference: each participant contributes & is equally responsible for the quality of the gathering; a collaborative production where we both learn and teach the aesthetics and ethics that are central to Design (& life). Days become nights; the program doesn't stop when dinner is served."
design  unconferences  conferences  togo  designinquiry  lcproject  glvo  restaurants  collaboration  collaborative  making  doing  northeast  interdisciplinary  multidisciplinary  crossdisciplinary  generativewebevent  generativeevents  makegood  openstudio  education  learning  alternative  alternativeeducation  teaching  unschooling  deschooling  schools  schooldesign  maine  montreal  generativewebevents  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Foodie Time Travel: A Preview of What Grant Achatz Will Be Serving at Next - TIME
"Achatz, whose soulful molecular gastronomy restaurant, Alinea, just won three Michelin stars, is getting ready to open his second restaurant in Chicago this February, and the new place, called Next, is ridiculously ambitious. Its menu and style will completely change every three months, jumping from one time-and-place pairing to another every three months — starting with Paris in 1906, then likely jumping to spring in Kyoto, Sicily in 1949 and so on. With this menu concept, he's basically saying that he can build the best French, Japanese, Italian, anything restaurant and then tear it down and start over again every few months."
food  cooking  history  grantachatz  alinea  french  paris  timetravel  next  restaurants  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
The Miracle Worker: Chicago Chef Grant Achatz -- Printout -- TIME
"If most chefs are musicians — soul, rock-'n'-roll or punk — Achatz is a poet. Nearly all his dishes are so precise and delicate, they are plated with tweezers. Although the food is delicious, it's also embarrassing, like someone's revealing too much to a stranger. It forces you to think about every bite. It's anti — comfort food. It's also the kind of food that pisses people off. Even though it can take months to get a reservation, even though the basic prix fixe meal is $195 before drinks, tax and tip, and even though Alinea has won every conceivable award (Gourmet magazine's best restaurant in America, the continent's highest entry on S. Pellegrino's list of best restaurants in the world and, most recently, three stars from Michelin), some people still walk out midmeal. "It's so hypocritical," says Achatz (whose name rhymes with rackets). "People will be carrying around iPhones, but they won't accept change in other mediums like food and art and music."
food  cooking  restaurants  chicago  grantachatz  moleculargastronomy  alinea  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Dove Vivi | Cornmeal Crust Pizza
See also: http://www.facebook.com/people/Delane-Hamik/100000620033096
portland  restaurants  pizza  food  oregon  delanehamik  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Food as fine art | PRI's The World [See also: http://www.andrescarnederes.com]
"The answer is Chia, about 45 minutes north of Bogota. Anchor Marco Werman takes us to a restaurant [Carne de Res] in Chia where owner Andres Jaramillo has transformed food and entertainment planning into a fine art. " [Includes slideshow of the restaurant, the design office, the workshop, etc.]
colombia  restaurants  food  andrésjaramillo  art  crafts  chia  bogotá  carnederes  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
10 Best Food Neighborhoods from Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Cities - GOOD
"Each year Jonathan Gold treks through the greater Los Angeles county in search of the perfect dumpling, ceviche, or curry on behalf of his fellow Angelenos. The result is a kind of foodie gospel that residents (and visitors) reference when they need a culinary awakening, or just a good huarache to tell their friends about. But the best thing about his list may be that it gives you a point of entry to the otherwise vast, sprawling land mass that is Los Angeles County. To that end, we've highlighted the neighborhoods where one could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner according to Mr. Gold's recommendations (and a couple others because we like them). Bon appetit!"
losangeles  food  jonathangold  restaurants  neighborhoods  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
Find SF Food Carts and Trucks - Track all San Francisco gourmet food truck and cart twitters from one website
sanfrancisco  food  restaurants  eating  foodcarts  foodtrucks  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Stone Company Store coming to South Park | San Diego Beer Blog
"There have been some rumors floating around for a while about Stone Brewing Co. opening a tasting room in South Park (first reported in San Diego Citybeat). Well those rumors just got official. Below is the email we just received from Stone. No word on the exact location, but we’ll let you know when we hear back.<br />
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"Stone Brewing Co. is proud to announce plans to open a Stone Company Store in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. Stone believes that South Park—with it’s central location, pedestrian/bike friendly streets, and strong sense of local community—is the perfect location.""
stonebrewing  southpark  sandiego  local  beer  food  drink  restaurants  2010  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
What Grant Achatz Saw at El Bulli - NYTimes.com
"As Wikipedia puts it, “Three of Escoffier’s most noted career achievements are revolutionizing and modernizing the menu, the art of cooking and the organization of the professional kitchen.” These were game-changing developments that shaped an entire era of cooking. All of these Ferran has done. One could easily argue that we are in the midst of one of these shifts now, and Ferran Adrià is the modern Escoffier.<br />
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It requires a great thinker to inspire more great thinking. Whatever he decides to do with El Bulli, the most powerful thing that Ferran Adrià has done is not what he himself has accomplished, but what he has inspired."
grantachatz  ferranadrià  gastronomy  alinea  elbulli  creativity  culture  design  dining  cooking  food  restaurants  augusteescoffier  renéredzepi  innovation  gamechanging  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Heston Blumenthal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Apart from a week's work experience in Raymond Blanc's kitchen and a short time in Marco Pierre White's, he is self-taught."
moleculargastronomy  hestonblumenthal  autodidacts  restaurants  science  uk  gastronomy  chemistry  cooking  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
El Bulli: A day with Ferran Adrià | Life and style | guardian.co.uk
elbulli  howwework  restaurants  cooking  creativity  spain  ferranadrià  gastronomy  moleculargastronomy  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Roaming Hunger - Follow the Street Food Movement™ - Food Truck and Food Cart Locator
"Roaming Hunger is the hub for all things street food. Blossomed in 2009, in the very charming San Francisco, CA, Roaming Hunger aims to promote, preserve and create culture in and around the wide world of curbside cuisine."
food  foodtrucks  sanfrancisco  nyc  aggregator  streetfood  trucks  twitter  seattle  losangeles  sandiego  restaurants 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Olympic Provisions | American Charcuterie | Since 2009
food  portland  oregon  meat  via:frankchimero  charcuterie  pdx  restaurants 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Sea Rocket Bistro | Unique Local Foods
"Sea Rocket Bistro serves a menu of truly local flavor, using ingredients sourced directly from farmers, fishermen, and ranchers in San Diego and focusing on sustainably harvested seafood, organic produce and pastured meats, as well as local craft beers and California wines. Our website is updated frequently, so you should always find something new here. Subscribing to the blog is the easiest way to find out what cool things we're up to- just click on the subscribe link and enter your e-mail address. We do not accept reservations except for large parties (more than 6 people) so just come on in and make yourself at home!"
food  local  restaurants  seafood  sandiego  sustainability 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Chego | let's go bowling. with RICE.
food  kogi  korean  losangeles  restaurants 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Hot (Food on) Wheels [See also: http://mihogastrotruck.com/ AND http://twitter.com/mihogastrotruck]
"Thus MIHO Gastrotruck, an amalgam of the duo's last names and a nod to mijo, a Spanish term of endearment, was born. They launched officially last weekend, with a promising sign: they ran completely out of food at the "30th on 30th" monthly restaurant crawl. All week, they've traversed the county, stopping to serve burgers, Vietnamese sandwiches called banh mi, tacos and potato croquetas to foodies and skeptics in Kearny Mesa, North Park and UTC."
food  northpark  sandiego  restaurants  foodtrucks  miho 
june 2010 by robertogreco
El Take me to El Take it Easy! - Urbanist Blog [see also: http://www.eltakeiteasy.com/]
"Jay Porter is about to open his new, adventurous "gastro-cantina" just 2 blocks north of his current spot, The Linkery. El Take it Easy showcases two of the same attributes that have made The Linkery such a hit: 1. Ethical Food. 2. Keeping it Weird.
food  restaurants  northpark  sandiego  jayporter  mexican 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Big City - To Develop Young Tastes, Look Past the Children’s Menu - NYTimes.com
"Nicola Marzovilla runs a business, so when a client at his Gramercy Park restaurant, I Trulli, asks for a children’s menu, he does not say what he really thinks. What he says is, “I’m sure we can find something on the menu your child will like.” What he thinks is, “Children’s menus are the death of civilization.”"
children  parenting  restaurants  happiness  health  culture  dining  education  food  nutrition  life  society  us  tcsnmy 
may 2010 by robertogreco
Q'ero Restaurant: Peruvian & South American Cuisine.
encinitas  sandiego  restaurants  food  peru  latinamerica  perú 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Mama's Bakery
food  sandiego  restaurants  falafel  labanese 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Petrushka - North Park - San Diego, CA
"Petrushka is an Eastern European restaurant that just opened a couple of doors down from Pomegranate (one of my favorite restaurants in SD.) The two restaurants are owned by the same people, but they are both unique in their own ways. I'd say Petrushka is more casual and down to earth, with comforting, delicious food and a great beer and wine selection. The staff treats you like family, and whether you're in a big group, on a date, or just by yourself, you'll leave with happiness in your heart!"
northpark  russian  restaurants  sandiego  food  local  easterneuropean  universityheights 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Adria: elBulli Restaurant to Close for Two Years - TIME
"not definitive end to the restaurant that has been voted best in world 5 times by...recognized arbiter of such things. Adrià & his team will still be working at elBulli, developing ideas & trying to figure out what comes next. But...restaurant's current format is finished. "When we come back in 2014, it's not going to be the same"...change will bring other sacrifices...Adrià & team will have to relinquish 3 Michelin stars...& no one knows how they'll pay for 2 years of inquiry w/out customers to finance them. But citing desire to spend more time w/ family...says he needs a break from serving food to figure out what comes next. "We still want to be creating in 2020, but for that to be possible, we have to normalize our lives."...refused to speculate on what elBulli will be like once 2 years are over, emphasizing repeatedly...he has no set plans...did suggest, however, that although elBulli would once again feed customers, research would likely take on a greater priority than cooking."
elbulli  ferranadrià  food  sabbaticals  cv  time  research  cooking  learning  creativity  restaurants  via:kottke 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Los Angeles Eat+Drink - Duck Duck Taco: CACAO MEXICATESSEN
"Cacao will always have its detractors. The tacos are more expensive than those you find on trucks (although there is a daily "happy hour,'' when you can get cheap street tacos, mole fries and mojado dogs), and don't really represent any particular regional tradition. Food is slow to come. The solace it offers is different from what you find at the elbow-in-the-salsa dining at rougher establishments — Cacao is a neighborhood restaurant in a fairly gentrified neighborhood.
jonathangold  food  losangeles  eaglerock  restaurants  mexican 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Las Cuatro Milpas - Barrio Logan - San Diego, CA
See also: http://maps.google.com/places/us/san-diego/logan-ave/1857/-las-cuatros-milpas?gl=us
food  todo  barriologan  restaurants  sandiego  mexican 
january 2010 by robertogreco
The year in food: changing tastes - latimes.com
"Culinary trends are fine. I'm as ready as the next food writer to proclaim pig's trotter the new pork belly, or to predict the ascendance of vadouvan, fingerling potatoes & violet liqueur. But in 2009, something truly new was going on that may fundamentally change the way we look at restaurants. But you had to look for it. It could be found in a barren parking lot in Rosemead, where 600 people shivered in the cold, glancing at their iPhones & awaiting the arrival of a food truck bearing Korean tacos & kimchi quesadillas. Kogi, whose chef came to the universe of food trucks after years leading the kitchens at the Beverly Hilton, broadcasts its location on Twitter, causing immense crowds to materialize in otherwise deserted locations, inspiring dozens of knockoff trucks...While nobody was paying attention, food quietly assumed the place in youth culture that used to be occupied by rock 'n' roll -- individual, fierce & intensely political, communal yet congenial to aesthetic extremes"
jonathangold  food  losangeles  trends  california  restaurants 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Y2K, Dot-com Party Sushi, and Vodka Luges - Food Media - - CHOW
"When the ball drops on January 1, we’ll be entering a new decade. Isn’t it funny to think that just 10 years ago we were eating sushi all the time, working at dot-coms, and wearing high-tech-looking shoes with wavy Space Age soles? Imagine if somebody had told us that beards, pickles, and backyard chickens would be cutting-edge, 2010 fashion. CHOW.com busted out the time capsule to investigate more of what we were eating and drinking in 1999, and how it’s changed. Take a look…" [via: http://www.hereandnow.org/2010/01/rundown-11/]
food  trends  00s  2000s  lists  diy  frugality  simplicity  affordability  organics  drink  fish  seafood  sustainability  local  farmersmarkets  restaurants  starbucks  independent  pop-uprestaurants  beer  wine  smoking  diet 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Old Jerusalem Restaurant
"Welcome to Fresh and Healthy Mediterranean Food!
annabelscheme  oldjerusalem  sanfrancisco  food  restaurants 
december 2009 by robertogreco
HBS Cases: Customer Feedback Not on elBulli's Menu — HBS Working Knowledge
"There is much about the restaurant that is inefficient, as MBAs are quick to note: Adrià should lower his staff numbers, use cheaper ingredients, improve his supply chain, and increase the restaurant's hours of operation. But "fixing" elBulli turns it into just another restaurant, says Norton: "The things that make it inefficient are part of what makes it so valuable to people." [or as Kottke phrases it: :Understanding vs. listening to customers": http://kottke.org/09/11/understanding-vs-listening-to-customers]
design  business  creativity  innovation  food  marketing  people  cooking  casestudy  feedback  customers  tcsnmy  value  elbulli  restaurants  ferranadrià 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Closing Schools and Restaurants [compare: http://www.forbes.com/2009/10/11/education-college-schools-opinions-columnists-reihan-salam.html]
"Anyhow, restaurants close with great frequency, particularly bad ones, sometimes ones that serve good food but don't manage the books, marketing, etc. well close too. This improves the aggregate quality of restaurants somewhat, but not so much to create an endlessly upwardly spiraling cycle of awesome sauce. Keep that in mind when considering the virtues of simply closing more schools more quickly. There are still plenty of towns and 'burbs in America where you can't find a decent, reasonably healthy restaurant, despite a century of merciless knife-point competition."
schools  competition  myth  tomhoffman  us  policy  politics  economics  restaurants  metaphor 
october 2009 by robertogreco
LA Weekly iPhone App: Your New Essential Guide to L.A., Download it Now for Free - Los Angeles Music - West Coast Sound
"It's Friday night and you drove out to Hollywood, found your secret parking spot, got in line and after an hour of waiting, realized that there's no way you and your friends will be getting inside the club. The night is still young, so what do you do? Fear not, dear reader, L.A. Weekly is here to help. We're excited to announce the launch of the L.A. Weekly iPhone app, the first app built for an alternative weekly paper. L.A. Weekly has always been your go-to guide for where to go, where to eat, and what to do. Now you can get all of our hot tips, newest places, best restaurants on your iPhone. For free (we love that word). The app features over 200 concert and event listings that you can sort by date, nearby and neighborhood, plus over 1000 easy-to-search restaurant listings, including recommendations from our Pulitzer Prize winning food critic Jonathan Gold."
losangeles  iphone  applications  laweekly  jonathangold  food  restaurants  events  music 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Los Angeles - Best of Los Angeles - Los Angeles Food & Drink
losangeles  food  restaurants  drink  tcsnmy  offcampustrips 
october 2009 by robertogreco
cabel.name: Kashiwa Mystery Cafe
"At this cafe, you get what the person before you ordered. The next person gets what you ordered. Welcome to the Ogori cafe! ... For the record, here are the rules of the Ogori cafe: 1. Let's treat the next person. What to treat them with? It's your choice. 2. Even if it's a group of friends or a family, please form a single-file line. Also, you can't buy twice in a row. 3. Please enjoy what you get, even if you hate it. (If you really, really hate it, let's quietly give it to another while saying, "It's my treat…") 4. Let's say "Thank You! (Gochihosama)" if you find the person with your Ogori cafe card. 5. We can't issue a receipt."
japan  cafe  travel  society  community  mystery  business  fun  food  restaurants  culture  japanese  drink 
october 2009 by robertogreco
A Hamburger Today - America's Favorite Hamburger Weblog!
The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles [URL too big for Delicious]: http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2009/09/a-guide-to-glossary-of-regional-american-burger-cheeseburger-styles-and-cooking-methods.html
food  hamburgers  us  regional  blogs  travel  restaurants 
september 2009 by robertogreco
America's Regional Hot Dog Styles | Serious Eats
"As we head into the 4th of July weekend, hot dogs are everywhere. They're on our grill and on our plates. They're on our TVs (the annual hot dog eating contest on ESPN). And this being Serious Eats, they're on our mind. Let's discuss. We bring you Serious Eats' definitive guide to America's regional hot dog styles."
hotdogs  food  us  restaurants  regional  pinks  losangeles  travel 
september 2009 by robertogreco
L.A. restaurant has the links to success | Marketplace From American Public Media
"A line snakes around the block in a gritty part of Los Angeles. Hipsters, families and tourists are all waiting to get into a restaurant whose name they can't even pronounce.
losangeles  food  restaurants  german  offcampustrips  tcsnmy 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Manivela Delivery's FoodBikes.com
"Introducing San Diego's first bicycle driven food delivery. Manivela Delivery is a group of riders from our diverse local bicycle community. Our motive is simple, offer delivery from anywhere and bring it to you on a bicycle.
sandiego  food  restaurants  delivery  bikes  biking 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink - A Google Map of Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants
"Thanks to reader @missfruitfly, who this afternoon tweeted the Google map she created of Jonathan Gold's "99 Essential L.A. Restaurants." Awesome. Twitter can be so much more than a 140 character communique of what you had for breakfast. Well, unless you're Mr. Gold. Who, by the way, can now be followed via Twitter @thejgold."
food  restaurants  losangeles  jonathangold  maps  mapping  offcampustrips  tcsnmy 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Cacao Mexicatessen Deli ~ Eagle Rock, CA - a set on Flickr
"Cacao Mexicatessen, is a new Mexican Restaurant and Deli in Eagle Rock, CA.
food  losangeles  via:britta  restaurants  mexican 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Los Angeles Eat+Drink - Mo-Chica: The Best Peruvian Ceviche Might Be in a Warehouse South of Downtown - page 1
"I bring this up because the ceviche at Mo-Chica, a brand-new Peruvian restaurant in the Mercado La Paloma complex south of downtown, may be the best ceviche I have had since that day: cubes of sushi-quality tuna in a thick vinegar emulsion sharp with chile, soft and tart and brutally spicy all at once, served with slivered red onion, a half-ear of giant-kerneled corn and a soft chunk of sweet potato. Since Nobu Matsuhisa blew into town 20-odd years ago, high-quality Peruvian seafood has not been hard to find in Los Angeles, but this was somehow — earthier, more sensual, more Peruvian, speaking as much of the mountains as of the sea."
food  restaurants  losangeles  peru  perú 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Wurstküche
restaurants  losangeles  food 
march 2009 by robertogreco
Cruising L.A. with The Kogi Korean Taco Truck
Follow the truck via the blog and Twitter account. See also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pritheworld/sets/72157614309526863/
losangeles  food  restaurants  tacotruck  meat  california  korean  mobility  twitter 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Kogi | Korean BBQ-To-Go
"We take the taste of Korean BBQ and fuse it with select spices to create some of the most unique and savory bites in LA. We’re always on the go, which means we’ll be updating our new locations soon and you can always find us live on Twitter. Fusing the taste of Korean BBQ and the portability of tacos and burritos together doesn’t magically happen. In case you were wondering, here are the people who make all of this possible."
food  restaurants  losangeles  korean  california  meat  tacotruck 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Berta's Restaurant in Old Town
"Berta's is located in a quaint, little cottage in the heart of Old Town where you’ll find some of the finest Latin American cuisine this side of Guatemala! Our atmosphere is casual and fun, and the food is delicious! So, come on down and see why we are the 1998 winner of the highly acclaimed Zagat Survey! AND why Berta's Latin American Berta's PatioRestaurant was awarded the 2001 Critics’ Choice Award from San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles!"
food  restaurants  sandiego  chile  argentina  brasil  uruguay  latinamerica  colombia  guatemala  venezuela  perú  costarica  spain  españa  cuba 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Marginal Revolution: Rules for eating in Chilean restaurants
The problem is that there should be any rules at all.
chile  food  restaurants  tylercowen 
august 2008 by robertogreco
Outstanding in the Field [see also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/12493564@N06/sets/]
"Set between the soil and the sky, Outstanding in the Field's long, linen-draped table beckons adventurous diners to celebrate food at the source. Bringing together local farmers and food artisans, chefs and winemakers, we explore the connection between the earth and the food on your plate. Join us as we feast on the gifts of the land."
food  local  green  events  bayarea  california  agriculture  outdoors  culinary  farms  farming  organic  hyperlocal  locavores  restaurants 
august 2008 by robertogreco
A conversation with chef David Chang - Charlie Rose
"A conversation with David Chang, chef/owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ko and Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York City."
risk  charlierose  food  restaurants  davidchang  interviews  business  risktaking  feard  design  management  leadership  administration  cooking  immigration  society  work 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Lucha Libre Taco Shop, San Diego's Gourmet Taco Shop
food  sandiego  restaurants 
july 2008 by robertogreco
San Diego Travel Guide - New York Times Travel
sandiego  guides  travel  restaurants  food  sightseeing 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Pokez San Diego - Fine Vegetarian and Traditional Mexican Food
see also: http://events.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/travel/24surfacing.html
food  sandiego  restaurants 
july 2008 by robertogreco
SignOnSanDiego.com | The San Diego Union-Tribune | San Diego news, California and national news
see also: http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/
news  sandiego  entertainment  events  music  film  art  museums  food  restaurants 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Cities and Ambition
"Even when a city is still a live center of ambition, you won't know for sure whether its message will resonate with you till you hear it...You'll probably have to find the city where you feel at home to know what sort of ambition you have."
paulgraham  cities  living  life  lifestyle  happiness  sanfrancisco  siliconvalley  nyc  paris  entrepreneurship  employment  work  careers  demographics  economics  proximity  urban  geography  society  bayarea  boston  california  education  knowledge  universities  psychogeography  location  art  restaurants  technology  science  math  research  money  business  challenge  wealth  class  social  insiders  intelligence  culture  commentary  losangeles  washingtondc  berkeley 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Puerto Boca
Argentine Restaurant in San Diego
sandiego  food  restaurants  argentina  littleitaly 
may 2008 by robertogreco
Space & Culture » Blog Archive » Consumption underground
Roundup of media coverage on "the underground urban dining scene" (secret restaurants)...A thought: will we see underground playgrounds, etc. as a reaction to tighter regulation, over-litigation just as we see these and other trends?
trends  food  restaurants  underground  law  freedom  expression  business  consumption  society 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Slice: A List of Regional Pizza Styles
""How many different kinds of regional varations of pizza exist?" I figured I'd compile a list of all the styles I've eaten or heard or read about. Sorry it took so long, HeartofGlass. It's a long list, and it appears after the jump."
cooking  food  geography  lists  pizza  regional  us  travel  restaurants 
january 2008 by robertogreco
3quarksdaily - Dispatches: L.A. Food Report
"I recently spent ten days in L.A., and despite being quite busy, I ended up with a pretty good picture of the food scene in that city-state."
food  losangeles  restaurants 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Blog de Viajes » Blog Archive » Turistas, restaurantes e informacion privilegiada
"os restaurantes en los lugares turísticos tienen pocos incentivos para brindar comida de calidad o económica. ¿qué podemos hacer como turistas en las ciudades que visitamos? Se me ocurren algunas sugerencias rápidas"
restaurants  tourism  economics  travel 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Taco
"Celebrating the Taco Lifestyle in Los Angeles"
losangeles  food  restaurants 
november 2007 by robertogreco
LA Weekly - Eat/Drink - My Taco: Frying High - Jonathan Gold - The Essential Online Resource for Los Angeles
"Carne asada fries — the Everest of fine gabacho cuisine"
losangeles  food  restaurants  jonathangold 
november 2007 by robertogreco
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