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99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die: Fugu to Foie Gras, Pizza to Panuchosnew
 
    
    The theme of this is somewhat morbid. We were going to call it "99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Move to San Diego," but it didn’t have the same ring of finality. You could drive up if you were really in the mood for a maple-bacon biscuit, but from beyond the grave?
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    02-26-2010  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  L.A. Street Food Fest: Was it Worth All the Waiting?new
Along with several thousand others last weekend, I attended the L.A. Street Food Fest, which featured 30 or so food trucks, oceans of frothing Singha, and a DJ. One's experience of the event depended — like an evening with Kogi — on how much time one was willing to spend waiting in line for a sandwich.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    02-19-2010  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurantsnew
Between a tweet and a truck: This year especially, an essential L.A. restaurant may not even be a restaurant at all -- it may be a tweet telling you which street corner to hang around at, or a cart parked in the same location from the hours of 11 to 2.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    08-28-2009  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Is San Diego a Restaurant-Impaired City?new
Mr. Gold answers your restaurant questions.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    06-05-2009  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    Tags: San Diego, restaurants
  The New Cocktailiansnew
The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar are taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    03-05-2009  | 
    Culture
  
  
  
    Tags: Los Angeles, bartenders
  The Year in Reading About Foodnew
When I look over at the nightstand, taking quick inventory of what I've been reading over the last few months, the pile is depressingly salted with books on the death and dying of the ocean.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    12-19-2008  | 
    Books
  
  
  
    
  Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential L.A. Restaurantsnew
If there were such a thing as a Los Angeles cuisine, I suspect it would be like what they serve at Houston's, which is to say a market-tested version of the grill-happy, salad-intensive cooking pioneered decades ago at places like the original Spago.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    11-14-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Political Palates: Obama's Taste for Kine Grindznew
Like everyone else, I would like to think that the politicians I vote for have more discerning palates than the ones I happen not to support, but this is not always the case.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    11-07-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Seoul, Korea: A Food Diarynew
 
    
    For years, I had contemplated what my first dinner in Seoul might be like. Now I know.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    10-17-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  What I Ate on My Summer Vacationnew
 
    
    From Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    09-05-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Rocking the Rhetoric at the DNC: Coachella for C-Span Junkiesnew
 
    
    With notes on Harry Reid -- the unknown poet of the political speechwriting?
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    09-05-2008  | 
    Commentary
  
  
  
    
  Fab's Brings America's Best Hot Dogs to LAnew
Fab's, a labor of love curated by hot-dog scholars Joe Fabrocini and wife Susie Speck Mayor, could serve as a three-table museum of American wiener culture.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    08-11-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  Keep On (Taco) Truckingnew
 
    
    I love entry-level capitalism at its most chaotic, where the barriers to doing business are on the wispy side of minimal, where two dozen oddball eating places can be launched for less money than it would take to open a single outlet of Burger King.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    04-28-2008  | 
    Food+Drink
  
  
  
    
  "Out of the Flames," "Flesh and Bone," "Bring the Funk"new
AltWeeklies Award - Food Writing
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    04-21-2008  | 
    Media
  
  
  
    Tags: media
  "The Revolutionary," "Raw Power," "Sex and the Steak House"new
AltWeeklies Award - Food Writing
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Gold  |  
    04-21-2008  | 
    Media
  
  
  
    Tags: media