I’m sure every pizza joint on this list is amazing but I do think it’s a little lame that the only good pizza in LA is supposedly Mozza.  It’s good pizza but we all know the attitude isn’t worth going back after attempt 3 or 4.  I’ve even learned how to MAKE pizza there but don’t need to go back.  Although I will say that I was incredibly impressed with CHI SPACCA last week (review coming soon).  Stella Barra is amazing and so are a number of other joints around town!

The 38 Essential Pizzas Across the Country

The appeal of the pizza seems to know no bounds. While New York, Chicago, and San Francisco are all packing a number of absurdly great pizzerias, an excellent pie can be had just about anywhere in the country. And in just about any style: thin-crust, New York, deep dish, Detroit, bar, New Haven, Chicago, grilled, California, tomato pies, and Neapolitan among them. This last style seems to have taken particular root over the last decade with pizza-makers across the country importing ovens from Naples and churning out margherita pies topped with San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella di bufala.

The question, of course, is which of these restaurants qualify as absolute must-stop pizzerias for the novice as well as the pizza snob. Earlier this year, Eater unveiled the Eater National Burger 38 in the grand tradition of the lists local sites have been putting out for years. And now, ladies and gentlemen, it is time to present the Eater National Pizza 38, the 38 essential pizzerias (and restaurant pizzas) across the country.

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I think the food world is somewhat fascinated with this movie…are you?

Jon Favreau’s Chef Film Is Shooting in Miami

The Favreaumobile is on the move: Actor/director/writer Jon Favreau is in Miami along with his fictional El Jefe Cubanos food truck to shoot his upcoming Chef movie, Eater Miami reports. An Eater tipster sent in the above photo, showing the truck in town. Ever Vine-happy, Favreau posted a video revealing that he was also filming at Versailles restaurant in Miami’s Little Havana and at the Fontainbleau hotel. According to Jaie Laplante of the Miami Film Festival, the “production is also making stops in New Orleans and Austin before they wrap.” (If you spot them in town, you know what to do.) READ MORE

I have no idea if this cookbook is any good but honestly I don’t care - it’s just so pretty look at it!!!

Sneak Peek: The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook

Here’s a sneak peek of the upcoming Gramercy Tavern Cookbook by chef Michael Anthony and food writer Dorothy Kalins, with an intro by the one and only restaurateur Danny Meyer. Meyer tells the history of the nearly 20-year-old restaurant, and Anthony provides 125 of its “impeccable, fiercely seasonal cooking.” From the spreads, the book also contains insider looks at the fiercely beloved restaurant including a section on Roberta Bendavid’s floral arrangements. The Gramercy Tavern Cookbook comes out October 29 from Clarkson Potter (pre-order on Amazon); below, a look inside.

Eater La really went wild today with not one, but TWO posts on Superba and Jason Neroni.  :)

Paul Hibler and Jason Neroni of Superba Snack Bar

When Paul Hibler (Pitfire Pizza) teamed up with chef Jason Neroni (Osteria La Buca), together the duo decided they wanted to open a neighborhood-friendly restaurant. The entire concept and name were practically conceived on the fly, and Superba Snack Bar is the result of those early interactions. Now, after about a year of serving Venice’s Rose Avenue enclave, the pair have their sights set on transforming the area’s perception of quality food and drink. Hibler and Neroni sit down with Eater to talk about Superba’s first year and what’s going to develop in the coming months at Superba Food & Bread.

How did you guys meet? Jason: At the Paramount backlot. I was doing an event there, The Taste, and I was serving elote corn with jalapeño butter. Paul eventually came by Osteria La Buca, where I was chef at the time, and we hit it off.  READ MORE

Well this looks like fun over Labor Day weekend…should we go?  :)

LA Times - The Taste

Don’t have plans Labor Day weekend? Now you do. Head over to LA Times | The Taste food and wine festival, August 30 to September 1, at Paramount Pictures Studios. Sip and sample your way through Paramount’s backlot as you get to know L.A.’s most-talked about restaurants and chefs.

On Opening Night, enjoy a soirée where chefs, bartenders, and event hosts will mingle with a more intimate crowd. If the farmers market is your favorite spot, become an expert in seasonal dishes at Russ Parsons and Michael Cimarusti’s Field To Fork on Saturday, August 31. Make it an all day affair and tour L.A.’s eclectic restaurants one bite at a time at Jonathan Gold and Sang Yoon’s Flavors of L.A. on Saturday evening.  READ MORE

I love this map and some of my recent faves are listed.  Salt Air (review coming soon), Bestia, Hinoki & the Bird, Riva Bella…….aaahhhhh. 

Eater LA Heat Map

More often than not, tipsters, readers, friends and family of Eater have one question: Where should I eat right now? Restaurant obsessives want to know what’s new, what’s hot, which favorite chef just launched a sophomore effort. And while the Eater 38 is a crucial resource covering old standbys and neighborhood essentials across the city, it is not a chronicle of the ‘it’ places of the moment. Thus, we offer the Eater Heatmap, which will change continually to always highlight where the foodie crowds are flocking to at the moment.

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Don’t Drink Russian Vodka! From Eater:

Bars Boycott Russian Vodka Over Anti-Gay Laws

In the wake of new Russian laws that persecute homosexuality (more on that here), bars across the US have begun to boycott Russian vodka. The movement was popularized by columnist Dan Savage in Seattle’s The Stranger, who writes: “There is something we can do right here, right now, in Seattle and other US cities to show our solidarity with Russian queers and their allies and to help to draw international attention to the persecution of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, trans people, and straight allies in Putin’s increasingly fascistic Russia: DUMP RUSSIAN VODKA.” And lo, bars have begun dumping Russian vodka.

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Woohooo!  I want to go as soon as it opens and I could care less what the food is.  Do you?

Former Chef de Cuisine at French Laundry, Tim Hollingsworth has confirmed future LA Restaurant

Tim Hollingsworth, former chef de cuisine at Thomas Keller’s French Laundry in Napa, has confirmed that he is opening a new restaurant in Los Angeles, although the eatery has yet to be named and he’s still developing the concept. Hollingsworth has been consulting on all of Michael Zislis’ locations along the South Bay (Circa, The Strand House), and is currently working on revamping the menus at the restaurateur’s Shade Hotel in Manhattan Beach. While the location of Hollingsworth’s project is tba, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the chef open with the Zislis Group somewhere out by the beach.  READ MORE

The Los Angeles Diner en Blanc

With the first Los Angeles White Dinner about a month away, everyone’s starting to hype it up.  Eater LA has a bit about it too.  But you guys have known about it for months, haven’t you?

From Eater LA: “The self-named “worldwide Epicurean phenomenon” imported from France, Diner de Blanc, is finally coming to L.A., after making its debut in twelve other cities around the world. The 25 year old, invite-only event is hosted on a public site revealed at the last minute on August 21. There’ll be plenty of chairs, picnic tables, dancing, live music, and more, but everyone brings their own basket of food to share. Think of it like a culinary flash mob where everyone dresses up in white.”  READ MORE

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Stephen Colbert’s rant on McDonald’s

Eater posted Stephen Colbert’s piece earlier this week about McDonald’s slightly condescending website devoted to teaching employees how to “budget” their earnings.  I say slightly condescending because when someone puts up a video telling you that if you buy $1 worth of candy each day, that equals $365 a year, it feels like McDonald’s doesn’t think that their employees know how to do simple math.

From Eater: “Last night on the Colbert Report, comedian Stephen Colbert addressed McDonald’s efforts to provide financial guidance to its workers with a website providing handy budgeting worksheets. Colbert explains: “Instead of raising salaries, they’re giving their workers something more valuable than money: A website.” He goes through the suspicious math of McDonald’s sample budget and concludes the fast food giant’s assertion that “you can have almost anything you want as long as you plan ahead and save for it” works, “unless the thing you want is money.”  READ MORE

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Four Oaks

I’m super interested in seeing what this becomes over the next 6 months.  This is from Eater LA’s site but it sounds promising!!! 

In 1987 Ruth Reichl, then at The Times, gave a mixed review to Four Oaks on Beverly Glen, the French restaurant (formerly Cafe Four Oaks) operated by “Henri Labadie (who was the first maitre d’ at Spago), Michel Blanchard (who ran Le Castel in San Francisco) and chef Claude Segal (who went from Ma Maison to Bistango).”

But fast forward to the present and Four Oaks, on the market for $3.5 million, finally has new owners. After six years of non-use, Robert Walsh, a landscape designer and organic produce farmer, and Sandra Costa, a sustainable restaurant designer, have signed a 20 year lease for the property.  READ MORE

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Cafe Attitude

This is seriously amazing BECAUSE the amazing GALE HAROLD is a complete douche-bag waiter with an unbelievably bizarre beard.  He needs to work more so we can see his face again!

Eater LA is more interested in the rant by Chef Ludo Lefebvre though: “…features a performance from Los Angeles chef Ludo Lefebvre. The video makes fun of the touchy feely trappings of LA restaurant Cafe Gratitude where servers ask guests questions of the day like “What is blessed about your life?” and menu items are listed as affirmations. Funny or Die imagines what a restaurant called Cafe Attitude might be like instead; a place where service is rude and dismissive and guests are told what to order. While customers are dining, Ludo storms in demanding to know why the restaurant called him out on Twitter for no-showing, like LA restaurant Red Medicine once did. (By way of background, the chef’s new restaurant Trois Mec uses a ticketing system to fight no-shows). Ludo’s rant about hospitality is well worth a watch.“

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Cafe Attitude

This is seriously amazing BECAUSE the awesome GALE HAROLD is a complete douche-bag waiter with an unbelievably bizarre beard.  He needs to work more so we can see his face again!

Eater LA is more interested in the rant by Chef Ludo Lefebvre though: “…features a performance from Los Angeles chef Ludo Lefebvre. The video makes fun of the touchy feely trappings of LA restaurant Cafe Gratitude where servers ask guests questions of the day like “What is blessed about your life?” and menu items are listed as affirmations. Funny or Die imagines what a restaurant called Cafe Attitude might be like instead; a place where service is rude and dismissive and guests are told what to order. While customers are dining, Ludo storms in demanding to know why the restaurant called him out on Twitter for no-showing, like LA restaurant Red Medicine once did. (By way of background, the chef’s new restaurant Trois Mec uses a ticketing system to fight no-shows). Ludo’s rant about hospitality is well worth a watch.”

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Connie & Ted’s

Eater National claims this is the next hot, super anticipated restaurant in LA.  Who’s going to try it out first and let us know what they think?  :)  Click-thru for their top picks across the country.

Connie & Ted’s

Chef: Michael Cimarusti
Projected Opening: May

Chef Michael Cimarusti is on the verge of opening his new seafood-centric concept Connie & Ted’s in West Hollywood this month in a building that Eater LA describes as the “seafood shack of the future.” Despite the untraditional digs, the Providence chef intends to focus on the classics such as lobster rolls, fried fish sandwiches, clam steamers and more. Also: burgers and steaks.

New Wolfgang Puck restaurant next to Nobu Malibu?

I’m only posting this because I’ve ridden by it for the past few years on my bike every Sunday morning.  It was also the infamous location of my tragic little bike accident 18 months ago.  Am I counting the months and obsessing over it?  No, not me.  If you recall, one of their construction cones jumped out into the road and forced me to face-plant into the gravel on the shoulder of PCH in Malibu - good times.  

Wolfgang Puck in Early Stages of Malibu Seafood Resto (from Eater LA)

For months, if not years, rumors have swirled around the neighboring, now fully built restaurant in Malibu right next door to new addition Nobu on the PCH.Wolfgang Puck was/is reputedly attached…READ MORE.

Eater has a little map of their favorite 17 sushi restaurants.  I thought it was apropos considering that the next Eat+Drink Supper Club is SUSHI.  Keep your schedule clear for Chef Eric Brown on May 4th - if you’re on the Eat+Drink Supper Club mailing list, the invite will go out early next week!

The 17 Hottest Sushi Restaurants in America Right Now

Here are seventeen of the most buzzed-about sushi restaurants across the United States. What follows is a list of restaurants that have, for the most part, opened over the last twelve months.  READ MORE