The Taste: Los Angeles

Another weekend, another food festival. This is getting quite exhausting... Just kidding! I live for these types of fun events where I get to dabble in all that is great LA dining all in one place. This week takes me to the Los Angeles Times The Taste and it was held in the Paramount Studios back lot which was a really interesting location. It also was about 90 degrees (thank you LA summer for eventually coming) so at times I was using menus as a fan and skipping the wine and beer tastings for ice cold water.

This event differs from Food & Wine because all of the tents were local LA restaurants and many of them are actually very close to my office, which makes me excited as we tasted many great treats. 

This event was called Field to Fork so all of the dishes were prepared using local products. Makes me happy to see so many LA eateries adopting this type of philosophy.

Get ready for it! Food porn in 3... 2... 1...

Good Girl Dinette

Summer fruit and licorice hand pie

Muddy Leek

Chicken and duck liver mousse with quince chutney on a crostini

 Farmshop

Smoked albacore tuna, artichoke caponata and fennel blossoms

Meringue

Melissa's Produce Company

Hatch chile chocolate cookie

Three types of Moscato grapes

Hamasaku

Hokkido scallop with yuzu apple ceviche

A/K/A an American Bistro / Bistro 45

Tempura green beans

Mayura

Butter chicken, vegetable korma, spinach chana, vegetable fried rice and garlic naan

The Cake Mamas

Caramel apple, good witch (lemon), and blueberry pancake

Loteria Grill

Squash blossom and corn truffle quesadilla with creamy epazote sauce

Rivabella

Nidi di rondine

Carciofi in casserole

Mr. Chow

Five spice tofu salad

Shanghai cucumbers and curry chicken

Canele

Gazpacho with sieved egg

Sun Organic Cafe

Macaroni and cheese and golden beet salad (vegan) 

Sun Organic Cafe green shake

Pinches Taco

Al pastor taco 

Pescado taco

The Tripel / Hudson House

Vadouvan spiced ricotta, fennel salad, black figs, baby mustard greens, crispy parma prosciutto

The Curious Palate

Szechuan baby back ribs 

STK

Caesar salad on a skewer

Grilled beef tenderloin, confit onion and heirloom tomato

The Blvd at the Wilshire Hotel

Antelope with soy ponzu and red rice and kale salad

Momed

Duck shawarma, avocado hummus, and muhammar on naan

Being on the back lot of Paramount was pretty cool too. I took some quick shots of the scenery since who knows when I'll be back! Soaking it all up.

Like Food & Wine, there were some definite stand outs and favorites. In no order.

• Farmshop's Smoked albacore tuna, artichoke caponata and fennel blossoms
• Muddy Leek's chicken and duck liver mousse with quince chutney on sourdough crostini
• Hamasaku's hokkido scallop with yuzu apple ceviche
• The Curious Palate's szechwan baby back ribs
• Mayura's butter chicken, vegetable korma, spinach chana, vegetable fried rice and garlic naan
• Momed's duck shawarma, avocado hummus, and muhammar on naan
• Pinches Taco's al pastor and pescado tacos

After another day of stuffing my face and my belly with good eats, nothing beat coming home and taking a nap in the sunshine. This is turning out to be an excellent Labor Day Weekend!

Cheers,

Kate