Jonathan Gold

Lotus, What Went Wrong?

Up goes the butcher paper...doneski! Two months ago, Eater reported that the reservations system had gone dead at New York's Lotus of Siam, and the restaurant appeared to be closed, though there was no posted sign, and the phone message inviting customers to come in played merrily on. It still doe ... More >>

Gold, Meehan, and Me Invade KC

The brisket burnt-edges sandwich at Gates Bar B.Q. [See More On the Road: Weird Food Truck in San Francisco | Watermelon Shop in Texas! | Delicious Kansas City Oddball Burgers] The last week of April, Peter Meehan, Jonathan Gold, and I went to Kansas City for three days of binge eating. The conve ... More >>

3 Good Things: Cannabis in the Kitchen

See More 3 Good Things: Anisette, Blueberries, Tumblr | Mackerel, Confetti, Crumbs | Vodka, Bacon, Lunch 1 Ryan Rice and Katy Peetz of Roberta's put together a three-course, two-cocktail menu where marijuana works as a psychoactive seasoning. Jesse Pearson reports on the stoner feast, and is still ... More >>

Listen: Food Is the New Rock, You Eat What You Are

Food Is the New Rock has a new podcast, and a recent episode features L.A.'s Jonathan Gold. There's a lot of fun food- and music-related chit chat, but the highlight has got to be when Gold mentions that his favorite blog in the world is The Hairpin.

The Fight for Foie Gras in California

California's statewide foie gras ban will kick in on July 1. And as tends to be the case with foie, it's a highly contentious issue. A few days ago, Jonathan Gold had a reminder for ban enthusiasts via Twitter: "Anti-foie gras peeps: Sarah DiGregorio's 2009 Village Voice piece is still definitive." ... More >>

Blogroll Gazette: The Life and Death of Food Blogs, Seder Don'ts

The Amateur Gourmet asks: are food blogs over? (We'd like to think not.) The Salt looks into the rise of what some farmers are calling "fake CSAs." Gourmet Live gives us the heads up on 10 seder faux pas. At Daily Dish, Jonathan Gold tackles a tricky dining situation: when dinner guests announ ... More >>

Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Olive Garden Reviewer, Speaks

Marilyn Hagerty isn't the first person to review the Olive Garden--in fact, Pulitzer-Prize-winning columnist Jonathan Gold did that very thing in the LA Weekly last April--and she won't be the last. But for some reason, her very factual review of the "long-awaited" franchise in Grand Forks, North Da ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Leaving L.A. Weekly for L.A. Times

Jonathan Gold spoke before a rapt audience last May at NYC's Housing Works in support of his wife Laurie Ochoa's literary journal, Slake. Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic and prose stylist Jonathan Gold is apparently leaving our sister paper LA Weekly. The rumors began last Friday, when Go ... More >>

How Much to Tip? Fork in the Road Weighs In

Images_of_Money/Flickr​ Fifteen percent? Eighteen percent? Twenty percent? Knowing how much to tip these days can be tricky. Jonathan Gold suggests 20 percent, all the time, no exceptions. But what if the tip is already written in? Do you add more on top of that? The economics of tippin ... More >>

Umami Burger Will Enfold New York in a Meaty Embrace

crazybluepanda/Flickr​Even though New York may not be any closer to getting an In-n-Out Burger than we were on April Fool's Day 2010, it looks like we'll soon receive another meaty Southern Californian love letter in the form of Umami Burger.

Chipotle Doubles Its Organic Produce Use; John Huntsman Digs Mexican Street Food

​LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold scores the best assignment ever -- comparing Copenhagen's Noma, San Pellegrino's top restaurant of the year, with Grant Achatz's Alinea for GQ. [HuffPo] The clear grape spirit pisco, originally from Chile and Peru, is making inroads into the crowded U.S. liquor mark ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Is a Fan of M. Wells' "Mucusoid Textures"

​"I was impressed with a presentation of roasted marrow bones spiked with snails, a layering of mucusoid textures whose virtuosity could only be applauded, as well as pickled pig's tongue with mustard; hand-slivered beef tartare; and a bowl of herbed tripe tossed with long-cooked broccoli and ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reads Tomorrow Night at Housing Works for Slake

​Pulitzer-prizewinning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold will be reading tomorrow night at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in Soho, along with experimental novelist Mark Z. Danielewski, surfer and writer Jamie Brisick, and Slake editors Laurie Ochoa (former editor in chief of L.A. Weekly and wife ... More >>

Lady Chefs Rock the James Beard Awards!

​So the James Beard Foundation Awards were last night and New York City cleaned up pretty well, with Best New Restaurant going to ABC Kitchen, Outstanding Pastry Chef awarded to Eleven Madison Park's Angela Pinkerton, Outstanding Restaurant Award also nabbed by Eleven Madison Park, and Outstan ... More >>

PRINT LIVES ON

West Coast lit mag gets a taste of the East

IACP Cookbook and Media Award Finalists Announced

IACP​It's the foodie awards season, and IACP just announced the finalists for its prestigious annual cookbook and journalism awards. Over 500 entries were submitted for consideration in this year's cookbook awards categories, with 52 books in 17 categories selected as finalists via a rigorous ... More >>

Lotus of Siam Rolls the Dice

The noted Las Vegas Thai joint chances New York City

Xocolatl de David: World's Most Expensive Caramels

​My fingers were itching to open the box and see what was inside... Fork in the Road's Lauren Shockey has already written about Meadow, the twee little shop on Hudson Street likely to be one of the foremost foodie gift destinations of the holiday season. A Portland, Oregon import, the store s ... More >>

Twitter's #famouscheese List Heats Up, Turns Into Fondue, Disappears

ilovecheese.com​Eight hours ago, I received the first of a massive wave of tweets adding to a list called #famouscheese. The first one was from Jonathan Gold (@thejgold), but I can't be sure he started it. The purpose of the list was to pun by merging cheese and celebrity names, and soon the t ... More >>

Spiderfang Name Checks Jonathan Gold, Mark Bittman, Tanoreen, Rockaway Taco, Robert Sietsema, and Others in New E.P.

allthatwevemet.com​Rapper Spiderfang's new EP, Hatchback Music, is a three-song effort, and one of the songs is called "Jonathan Gold." Also appearing on the cut is Staten Island rapper and toaster Prince Zimboo, who co-wrote the track. Zimboo has a history of penning food-related songs, and i ... More >>

What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio​In 2006, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio wrote Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a gorgeous book made up of portraits of families from all over the world pictured with the amount of food they eat in a week. Each chapter also included a family recipe and a br ... More >>

Jonathan Gold on Restaurant Letter Grades

​Jonathan Gold, a restaurant critic at our sister publication LA Weekly, is heavily quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the Department of Health letter grades that will be posted on restaurants starting in July. Los Angeles has had a similar system since 1998.

James Beard Media Award Winners Announced

Cookbook of the Year​The James Beard media and cookbook awards were announced last night at a Kelly Choi- and Andrew Zimmern-hosted event at Espace. Cookbook of the Year went to Colman Andrews' The Country Cooking of Ireland, and the other winners were as follows:

Beard Awards Media and Journalism Finalists Are Announced

The man himself.​The James Beard Foundation is announcing its James Beard Awards finalists via Twitter this morning. The list of chefs has just started rolling out (currently, regional finalists are being named), but the list of final nominees for the foundation's Media and Journalism Awards a ... More >>

Humping The Hump, Santa Monica's Whale-Serving Sushi Bar; Jonathan Gold Connection in the Fracas

discoverlosangeles.com​The Hump is actually located on Santa Monica city property, at the Santa Monica Airport. While Santa Monica's whale-slicing restaurant faces fines of $200,000 for itself, and $100,000 for its sushi chef over its admissions that it violated the Federal Marine Mammal Prot ... More >>

Los Angeleno Not So Sure about Saveur's L.A.-centric March Issue

Geez, Saveur and L.A.: get a room.​ The March issue of Saveur is a love letter to Los Angeles, from the highly touted David Sax piece on the city's deli culture to Jonathan Gold's farm-to-table item. But one Angeleno (at least) is raising an eyebrow at the gushing L.A. praise. Rob Eshman, the ... More >>

Josh Ozersky on His Upcoming Wedding Feast, the Demise of the Feedbag and (Food) World Domination

Jason Perlow/Hamburger AmericaJosh Ozersky and friend.​ Last Friday morning on the windswept tundra that was Soho, one half expected to encounter a pack of wolves trundling down Spring Street. Instead, a larger, equally hungry apparition materialized in the mercifully insulated confines of Bal ... More >>

Zach Brooks Talks About Midtown Lunch's Growing Girth: "I'm Just a Fat Guy Who Likes to Eat"

myspace.com/ztbrooksZach Brooks, definitely not in midtown.​ Four years ago, Zach Brooks walked into Hing Won, a Chinese restaurant near his office in midtown, and noticed two lines. On his left, a bunch of white guys in business suits waited next to a steam table to order Americanized Chines ... More >>

Table 8 Will Close, Scott Conant Takes Over Space

Inside Govind Armstrong's misbegotten Table 8​ LA chef Govind Armstrong's adventure in New York was brief and unsuccessful. Table 8, in the Cooper Square Hotel, was almost inexplicably bad--inexplicable, because Armstrong's restaurants in LA have been greeted with mainly favorable reviews by ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Pauses to Reflect on 2007, the Year That the Food World Tilted on Its Axis

Anthony Bourdain in a reflective moment.​As this miserable decade exhales its last, poisonous breaths, Anthony Bourdain has a few thoughts to share about what's changed in the food world not over the last 10 years, but the last three.

Jonathan Gold Gets His 'New Yorker' Profile

Rena Kosnett/LA WeeklyJonathan Gold drinks to life, Pulitzers.​Jonathan Gold's already won the only Pulitzer ever awarded for food criticism, so it's appropriate that a New Yorker profile would follow, albeit two years after the fact. The article, by Dana Goodyear, will appear in Monday's issu ... More >>

David Chang and Mario Batali: So Important, So Overrated

Grub Street surveyed members of the gastronobility to assess the "state of our food union," questioning the likes of Anthony Bourdain, Alan Richman, Gael Greene, and LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold. Unsurprisingly, New York figured largely into their appraisal: David Chang and Mario Batali were named two ... More >>

Scenes From the Roosevelt Food Court

New Flushing malls offer regional Chinese specialties

Paneling

Last Meal: Jonathan Gold Discovers Roast Prosciutto

Jonathan Gold's last meal

. . . starts with bloody steaks and ends at Prada

Food Pulitzer for Jonathan Gold

A Hero's Welcome

Chinatown's new banh mi parlor turns to France for inspiration

Nip and Squirt

Tiny juicy buns linger, improve, and rule at Mott Street haven

Asian Logroll

Amanda Hesser's spice market review sparks debate over foodie ethics and tableside manners

Letters

Everyone's a Critic

Foodies Add Spice to ASME Awards