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Rustic Canyon by Jeremy Fox
Jeremy Fox is one of the leading LA chefs who embraced local sourcing for his flagship restaurant Rustic Canyon. On the menu in Santa Monica and in his well-received recent ...
n/naka: modern kaiseki by Niki Nakayama in Los Angeles
N/naka serves modern kaiseki handcrafted by American born, Japanese female chefs duet in Los Angeles. To the Chef’s Table Netflix series audience, chef Niki Nakayama is a celebrity, yet her ...
Atelier Crenn: weighing the cost of being voted the world's best female chef
Dominique Crenn tells the story of herself through her food at San Francisco's Atelier Crenn. The backdrop is her childhood in Britanny, France, and travel memories as diverse as visiting ...
Rouge Tomate Chelsea: sustainable fine dining setting precedent in New York
Rouge Tomate, the first vegetable-focused Michelin stared restaurant in New York switched coats for more casual, holistic, locavore and sustainable dining. Like the soon to be opened hyper locally seasonal ...
Sushi Yasuda: purity and quality of edomae sushi wins over the demanding New Yorkers
After almost two decades serving traditional simple edo sushi to a gourmet tribe of purists, the bamboo-clad minimalist keeps ratings amongst the best sushi restaurants in New York. Sushi Yasuda ...
Tartine Manufactory: baking slow bread trendy in San Francisco
Tartine Manufactory was long overdue in San Francisco. California's most famous bread baker Chad Robertson should have expanded his rustic temple of slow bread years ago. After 15 years in ...
Dandelion Chocolate manufacture and cafe in San Francisco
Dandelion Single Origin chocolates are made in San Francisco in small batches. Perhaps the highest quality chocolate in North America*, Dandelion Chocolate is a two ingredient real artisanal chocolate, no vanilla, ...
Littorai: expressing Sonoma through biodynamic viticulture
Driving to the Littorai winery feels like you trespassed into someone’s apple orchard, while getting lost on the dirt roads winding up the endless hill from Sebastopol. There are not ...
MAST chocolate: seeing London through art and creative chocolates
Mast Brothers, originally established in Brooklyn, need to brace the brand's reputation after the PR-faulted scandal of their misinformed bean-to-bar "craftsmanship" broke recently in the US. Rick and Michael Mast might ...