Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants (in Los Angeles)
The LA Times’ Jonathan Gold just came out with his best 101 restaurants today. How many have you eaten at? I’m going to print this list out and see how many I can go to in the next year. You? :)
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Flynn McGarry’s January Winter Menu Pop-up EUREKA at BierBeisl in Beverly Hills
Some said it was his unveiling, his debut, the beginning of his professional career. Isn’t that a lot to put on a 14-year old? Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But Flynn McGarry is taking it all in and cranking out amazing food all at the same time. Called a culinary prodigy, Flynn has been cooking since he was 10 reportedly because he didn’t like his Mom’s cooking, or lack of cooking - he was tired of take-out. Soon his bedroom was turned into a test kitchen and they were running a monthly Supper Club out of their house. At 11, he was cooking from recipes in the French Laundry cookbook. He’s clearly got the food bug.
In late January, Tere and I were lucky enough to get off the wait list and into his Winter Tasting Menu dinner held at Bier Beisl in Beverly Hills with the help and guidance of Chef Bernhard Mairinger. The menu was pretty ridiculous - 11 or 12 courses of pure creativeness including dessert concoctions from pastry chef, Josh Graves. I made notes on the menu above that Flynn signed for me. There was a water sommelier pouring very high end bottled water from Beverly Hills 902H0. I didn’t even know water sommeliers existed.
Both Flynn’s Mom and Dad were completely involved in the dinner from seating guests, chatting and getting to know newcomers and photographing and videotaping the seemingly perfect orchestrations from the kitchen. Flynn is going somewhere and at only 14 years old, his future career is going to be long. I can only imagine where he will go, but I’m excited to go along for the ride.
Learn more about Flynn and his upcoming dinner at his website and a great video from this dinner HERE.
Flynn McGarry’s Winter Menu
I know I haven’t written my review yet of this culinary wunderkind but here is a little video his team created from that event. If you get really close to the screen, squint your eyes just so and cock your head to one side, you might be able to see me sitting along the window. Good luck.
Flynn McGarry’s Winter Menu
I know I haven’t written my review yet of this culinary wunderkind but here is a little video his team created from that event. If you get really close to the screen, squint your eyes just so and cock your head to one side, you might be able to see me sitting along the window. Good luck.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I love anyone who opens a German or Austrian restaurant in LA. It’s such great comfort food!
Austrian Cuisine hits Beverly Hills
BierBeisl isn’t a locally minded restaurant.
Whenever possible, chef Bernhard Mairinger turns to the country of his birth, Austria, to stock the kitchen of his new Beverly Hills spot.
Stiegl, the Salzburg brewery that’s gloriously inescapable in Austria, dominates the beer list. And there’s plenty of Grüner Veltliner, Zweigelt and Blaufränkisch, too.
The sausages at BierBeisl aren’t imported, but the smooth texture of the bratwurst ($9), made by Continental Gourmet Sausage, might convince you otherwise. Mairinger brings a delicate touch to the links here, belying his training at L.A.’s finishing school for chefs, Patina. His sausages aren’t strictly about snap and char; some, like weisswurst ($9), are simmered in milk.
That deftness carries over to more definitively Austrian dishes such as schnitzel ($19 to $25). Feel free to choose whichever fried cutlet–turkey, pork or veal–you’d like to eat with lingonberries. But we implore you to pick the potato salad for your side dish.
Despite all the true imports Mairinger brings to BierBeisl, this vinegary salad (click here for the recipe) is the Austrian dish we’re most glad to now have available; this is the potato salad we fell for when visiting Vienna–the one we’ve been chasing ever since.
BierBeisl, 9669 Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills; 310-271-7274 or bierbeisl-la.com