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Bite of the Week: The Four-Meat Con Culo! Sandwich from Crispy Cuban
What: The Con Culo! sandwich (punctuation mark included). A pressed baguette gets slathered with mustard butter before being stuffed with braised ropa vieja, sliced pastrami, slow-roasted pork,...
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Bite of the Week: Vegan Ramen From Ilan Hall’s Ramen Hood
What: A slurpable bowl of noodles with zero animal products. The broth is made with sunflower seeds to give it that fatty, starchy texture and miso adds umami. The ramen is topped off with nori,...
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Bite of the Week: Red Velvet Ding Dong from C+M (Coffee and Milk) at LACMA
What: The Red Velvet Ding Dong: an ode to the classic Hostess snack cake (which, for the record, is ten times better than a Twinkie) that’s been given the Sprinkles treatment with a hefty shot of red...
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Bite of the Week: The Foie Gras Burger from Terrine
What: The eponymously delicious Terrine Burger. The patty is stuffed with truffle butter and topped—well, bottomed too—with cured tomato, frisée, porcini mushrooms, sautéed onions, aioli, truffled...
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Bite of the Week: Scallop with Caviar and Black Truffle from Tempura Endo
What: Scallop, stuffed with black truffle, tempura-battered and fried, sliced in half, then topped with caviar and yuzu salt. Yeah, there’s a lot going on there. Where: Tempura Endo in Beverly...
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Bite of the Week: Smoked Salmon on Rye from Lodge Bread Co.
What: A smoked salmon plate complete with caper berries, pickled cabbage, cream cheese, and two slices of flavor-dense and generously buttered rye toast. Where: Lodge Bread Co., the Culver City...
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Bite of the Week: Blistered Shishito and Bacon Quesadilla from Guerrilla Tacos
What: The bacon, new potato, blistered shishito, cheddar, and egg quesadilla with some serrano chile—and probably some other things that didn’t make the menu board but ended up in the tortilla. Where:...
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Bite of the Week: The Nutella Bombolini from Jon & Vinny’s
What: The Nutella bombolini (technically it’s a bombolino though, yeah?): a fried mound of dough stuffed with chocolate hazelnut spread and topped with powdered sugar. Where: Jon & Vinny’s, the...
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Bite of the Week: The Dagwood Breakfast Sandwich from Top Round
Roast beef for breakfast? Sure, why not?Photograph by Josh Scherer What: The Dagwood breakfast sandwich: fried egg, hash browns, Round Sauce, provel cheese, roast beef (or bacon, or sausage), and mayo...
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Bite of the Week: The Porchetta Dip from Knead and Co. Pasta Bar
What: The Porchetta Dip made with Bruce Kalman’s signature roast pork, rapini, and pickled mustard seeds, alongside some crispy pork rinds, spicy giardiniera, and a cup of jus for dipping. Where: Knead...
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Bite of the Week: The ‘New Deli’ from Michael Voltaggio’s Sack Sandwiches
What: The “New Deli”: pastrami, pickles, and curry mustard on that crunchy, ciabatta-like bread. Where: Michael Voltaggio’s newly debuted Sack Sandwiches off Sunset in Hollywood. Remember ink.sack? Us...
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Bite of the Week: Pabellón Criollo Arepa From Zema Latin Vibes
What: An arepa—AKA Venezuelan corn pancake—filled with black beans, queso de mano, fried plantains, and braised beef with aromatics known as pabellón criollo. There’s also a good amount of optional...
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Bite of the Week: Beef and Lamb Birria Burrito from Katsuji Tanabe’s Mexikosher
What: Beef and birria burrito, con todo. Yellow rice, black beans, fresh corn, pickled radish, pico de gallo, and guacamole all wrapped up tender shredded meat in a flour tortilla. Where: Mexikosher,...
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Bite of the Week: Whole Grilled Pompano from Alvin Cailan’s Amboy
What: Whole grilled pompano—a small-ish fish that hangs out in the Atlantic—served with white rice, tomato salad, and a house-made chili sauce, all wrapped up in banana leaves. Where: Alvin Cailan’s...
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Bite of the Week: Vegan Black Pepper Tofu Taco from Trejo’s Tacos
What: Taco filled with crispy-fried black pepper tofu, pickled red onion, serrano chilies, and scallions. It comes served with a tiny French breakfast radish, a lime, and some optional squirts of...
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Bite of the Week: Shrimp Remoulade Roll at Cape Seafood and Provisions
What: A split-top, New England-style hot dog bun—the kind with no crust on the sides so it can absorb an obscene amount of butter in the griddling process—stuffed with rough-diced shrimp and a whole...
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Bite of the Week: Shuka Burger from the Middle Feast Food Truck
What: The Shuka Burger: a ground beef and lamb patty topped with a fried egg, spicy Moroccan tomato sauce, garlic aioli, lettuce, tomato, and red onion on a sesame seed bun. Where: The Middle Feast...
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Bite of the Week: Veal Bratwurst with Sauerkraut from BierBeisl Imbiss
What: A veal bratwurst, smoother in texture than its pork counterpart, stuffed inside a house-made pretzel roll with a healthy dose of sauerkraut and spicy brown mustard. Where: BierBiesl Imbiss,...
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