In watching the Sundance screening of Shut Up and Play the Hits, the documentary of LCD Soundsystem's final show ever at Madison Square Garden, it is clear that James Murphy loves three things: music, his French bulldog, and coffee. He loves coffee with a passion unmatched by pretty much any somewhat famous person besides David Lynch, who has his own coffee line and has been known for putting rants about the virtues of coffee versus tea in movies like Inland Empire. In fact, when Stephen Colbert asked Murphy what he wanted to do now that he was retiring from rock stardom, he said, "I like to make coffee."
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Top Chef Texas Is Headed North for Its Finale
By Alan Sytsma
The other week, rumors popped up that the latest, Texas-fried season of Top Chef would shoot its finale in Vancouver, British Columbia (nickname: the San Antonio of Canada), and now some tweets from the various TC judges confirm it. Gail Simmons tweets that it's the birthplace of Jason Priestley; Emeril points out that it's also the birthplace of Greenpeace; Padma says it's also where "the Chinese Buffet was founded." Guess the challenge will be an ecofriendly egg roll cook-off, guest-judged by Brandon Walsh?
Angela's Coffee on Sunset Replaces Jinky's
By Hadley Tomicki
A new Blue Bottle shop comes to town
All around arts-obsessive Angela Pallotta tells Grub Street she's just opened Angela's Coffee on Sunset in the former home of Jinky's Cafe. Pallotta has decked the space out in classic, contemporary, and modern works of print by the likes of Shep Fairey, Murakami, Mr. Brainwash, and some up-and-comers named Andy Warhol and Marc Chagall. She is also pouring art straight into in your cup, offering Blue Bottle's pour-over drip coffee for three dollars from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night.
POTUS Pie: Obama Orders Di Fara–Style Pizza in Vegas
By Hugh Merwin
Dom DeMarco, making a pie not intended for the president.
Apparently twelve pizzas (including sausage- and pepperoni-topped ones) and as many cannoli were delivered to President Obama's hotel suite in Las Vegas on Wednesday, the Review-Journal reports. They came from the two-month-old Dom DeMarco’s Pizzeria & Bar, the Sin City outpost brought to you by the extended family of Midwood's sainted pizza man. DeMarco's says its pizzas are the same as Di Fara's — "carefully handcrafted using closely guarded recipes and quality imported ingredients" — so, you know, by extension, it's sort of like the president ate at Di Fara Pizza; take that, NYC DOH! [Las Vegas Review-Journal, Earlier]
Palihotel Opens February 1st, Palikitchen Coming Later That Month
By Hadley Tomicki
A look at PalihotelPhoto: Palihotel
We rejoice over the renewed energy found in Palihouse Courtyard Brasserie's kitchen these days, where chefs Ryan Digby and Rui Wang are turning out remarkable dishes and desserts, with consulting help from Brendan Collins. The smooth transformation makes us ever hopeful for the prospects at PaliHotel, Avi Brosh's next hotel project opening on Melrose on February 1st with just 32 rooms and a "European Inn" aesthetic. And what about a place to eat?
U.K Teen Survives (For Now) on Chicken McNuggets; Axe Serves Weekday Breakfast
• A U.K. teen who has subsisted solely on chicken nuggets since she was two was rushed to the hospital with all kinds of weird health issues. So, Twinkie Diet adherents shouldn't get any ideas. [HuffPo]
• The USDA's "Plant Hardiness Zone Map" for gardeners, which hadn't been updated since 1990, shows that warm zones have drifted northward. Cough, climate change, cough. [Salt/NPR]
• A new Spanish study suggests that fried food is not inherently unhealthy. Sounds too good to be true. [Times of India]
• Axe is now serving breakfast every Wednesday through Friday morning. [Eater]
Just days after bringing us the scathing news that Paula Deen's publicist recently quit, "Page Six" delves even deeper into the Deen family: According to "sources," Bobby and Jamie Deen were initially very unhappy with Paula's plans to endorse Victoza. So unhappy that they almost — almost — met with other talent agents in an effort to move out from under their mom's shadow. But! Paula "put them both under a lot of pressure," and they ended up helping their mom after all. What, did she threaten to cut of their allowance? [Page Six/NYP, Earlier]
A Potentially Scandalous Mondavi Memoir; The Grateful Dead Inspire a Winemaker
By Jay Barmann
"Imagine the tell-all they could write about me!"
• Robert Mondavi's widow Margrit, 85, is working with a ghost writer on a "frank" memoir about her life in and around the wine business, including a story about a famous, costumed Roman orgy the couple hosted at their home in the eighties. [Decanter]
• Margrit also recently gave the famed Wappo Hill mailbox from the couple's recently sold estate to chef Richard Reddington, at his request, to feature in his new Yountville pizzeria Redd Wood. [Grub Street]
• Grateful Dead bandmember Phil Lesh is busy opening a restaurant and music venue in Marin County called Terrapin Crossroads. Meanwhile, the "earthy, savage blend" of the Dead's Steal Your Face album inspired a Mendocino winemaker to make a Syrah blend and name it for the album. [Mass Live]
Andrew Zimmern Feasts on Roasted Raccoon for Breakfast, Banana Pudding for Dessert
By Alan Sytsma
Zimmern digs in at Craft.Photo: Melissa Hom
As the host of Bizarre Foods on Travel Channel, which kicked off its latest season this week (airing Mondays at 9 p.m. ET/PT) , Andrew Zimmern made his name eating some seriously strange stuff. But he swears that things are different when he's off the clock: "I go home at night, I pick up the dry cleaning, and I make a roast chicken and some crispy potatoes and my wife and son and I sit down to a nice dinner." But that doesn't mean it's impossible for some errant offal to sneak into his day-to-day routine, especially when chefs recognize him in their restaurants. "The disaster for me is when I'm with my wife and son and we stop at a burger bar or something," Zimmern says, "and the chef decides to send out a month-old pig head from the freezer. I just want to eat a burger with my son!" Fortunately for Zimmern, there were no surprise pig heads this week while he was in New York — Zimmern, a native New Yorker who now lives in Minnesota, says he gets back to town about once a month — but there were plenty of other interesting things. For tales of sauteed duck testicles, calf-brain sandwiches, and much, much more, take a gander at this week's New York Diet.
01/26/12
Six Taste Targets Lovers in Beverly Hills
By Hadley Tomicki
We're already in love...
Like everyone else, your love has turned savvier when it comes to what they put in their mouth. In 2012, giving your Valentine another box of chocolates makes you about as suave as a suit on Ron Paul. An appealing option providing both partnership and mutual satisfaction comes from Six Taste, the L.A.-based food tour program that seeks to highlight the diversity of eateries in our neighborhoods. For V-Day, Six Taste has a new tour for lovers based in Beverly Hills. Diversity? Beverly Hills? Do go on.
The James Weird Awards: Marijuana Mouth Spray and Streets of Animal Blood
By Laura Reineke
After last week's shenanigans, a slight drop-off in weird food news was to be expected, but we still saw penis cakes, geoengineered food, and strange PR stunts in the mix. For more, check out the James Weird Awards, straight ahead.
The Counter Rolls Out At Home Burger Bar, Bets On The Super Bowl
By Hadley Tomicki
A tricked-out Counter burgerPhoto: LWY via Flickr
If actress Melora Hardin's L.A. Diet got you hankering for a burger bar of your very own, The Counter is obliging with a new custom burger bar option, to be available by delivery or pick-up at each of its locations starting this Monday. An online ordering form helps the hungry formulate a plan for a minimum of eight fellow eaters, breaking burgers down to $9.95 per head.
Noah Ellis Revisits Red Medicine's Reasons for Virbila Ouster
By Hadley Tomicki
It's been over a year since Red Medicine co-owner Noah Ellis delivered the boot to S. Irene Virbila's backside, adding injury to insult by exposing the once anonymous critic's mug in an organized leak to local media and offering her a steady diet of nothing. Ellis admits he didn't necessarily have the most eloquent argument for ousting the critic from his waiting room back in the day, so today he tries again in an interview with Eater.
Moby Helps Defend Wolfslair From Any Nazi Associations
By Hadley Tomicki
Moby: A bald vegan werewolf?
Just in case you worry that L.A.'s recent boom of biergartens has gotten a free pass from serious scrutiny around here (that is, when it's not being ignored altogether), The Hollywood Reporter details the defenses at Wolfslair, the recently opened Hollywood German restaurant that counts Top Chef vagabond Jamie Lauren as its chef. The restaurant's name, as a quick Google search is quick to reveal, happens to be the English translation for Wolfsschanze, the name of the Poland-based headquarters Adolf Hitler used to organize attacks on Russia (as we pointed out during the opening). Seeking to extricate the restaurant from some serious shit, editor Gary Baum gets in touch with proprietor Art Davis and beeping-booping beat-artist Moby for a little clarification. What do the guys have to say?
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