Christmas Turducken Feast
I used to limit Food GPS to meals that people can repeat in restaurants, but a recent family tradition has proven too powerful to ignore: the turducken. For the past four Christmases, my father...
Pollos El Brasero: Fanning Peruvian Flames at Pollo Specialist
In the recent Los Angeles Times rotisserie chicken round up, Judith Kane Jeanson pinpointed her eight favorite birds in the county. Over the past 10 years, I’d eaten at every selection except for Pollos...
Eagle Rock Farmers Market: Fascinating Foods on Friday Nights [CLOSED]
There’s little doubt that the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market assembles the most impressive produce in the Southland, but there are fringe farmers markets that actually offer more compelling prepared foods. Case in point:...
Chicken House Debuts in Little Armenia [CLOSED]
Nelly Tatulbekyan and her husband opened Chicken House on Friday, September 5, in a former Little Armenia KFC. She wrote a succinct photo menu featuring four varieties of chicken: grilled, fried, rotisserie and hot...
Sevan Chicken: Finding a Fitting Zankou Substitute
Any conversation about rotisserie chicken in Los Angeles has to begin with Zankou Chicken, the Armenian-American yardbird empire that stretches across the city and dips down into Orange County. Their chicken and garlic sauce...
Dino’s Burgers #2: Putting Maniacal Chicken on Chopping Block
I can still remember the day I discovered Dino’s – January 6, 2000. I was working as a Writers’ Assistant on “JAG,” and my key mid-day duty was to find restaurants and retrieve lunch...
