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Italian

Restaurant Cabo

Flora’s Field Kitchen: Off-Roading for Farm-to-Table Food

Off-the-beaten-path isn’t so much an adventure as it is a way of life in Baja California Sur, where we came to regard beaten paths with skepticism during a week-long Baja.com tour. Our final off-road...
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Italian Food Todos Santos

Tre Galline: Surviving Adversity and Thriving in Todos Santos

We started our day’s explorations at the windswept Punta Lobos beach with Tre Galline chef-owner Angelo Dal Bon and his partner Magda Valpiani, to source fish for the night’s meal. At the ready, he...
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Meatballs Los Angeles

Sotto Grilled Pork Meatballs [CLOSED]

Ever since Sotto opened last March, the southern Italian restaurant from chefs Steve Samson, Zach Pollack and restaurateur Bill Chait, has become one of my favorites. They even participated in the Food GPS Lamb...
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California Cuisine Los Angeles

Milo & Olive: Channeling Italy through California Prism

It was a pretty seamless transition. Josh Loeb and Zoe Nathan, who already found success with Rustic Canyon Wine Bar & Seasonal Kitchen, Huckleberry, and Sweet Rose Creamery opened Milo & Olive last December,...
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Salume Carmel

Cantinetta Luca Salume Selection

It took a long time to visit Carmel and not want to eat at Katy’s Place. Of course there are other restaurants that are worth visiting, and Katy’s isn’t open at night, so that...
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Ribs Miami

The Dutch: American Comfort Arrives in Miami via NYC [CLOSED]

Since homegrown Miami chefs seem to have trouble capturing the imagination of cosmopolitan tourists and even some locals, carpetbagging New York restaurateurs have opened South Florida outposts of restaurants like Shake Shack, Scarpetta, Mercadito,...
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