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Major Newspaper Axes Starred Restaurant Reviews

Posted 03.09.2012

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The Los Angeles Times has decided to nix the star ratings that used to accompany restaurant reviews. The paper explains its decision: First, star r...

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Jonathan Gold Bids Farewell to LA Weekly... and Hello to The Los Angeles Times!

Jay Weston | Posted 05.05.2012

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On Sunday, Jonathan Gold held his fifth annual Gold Standard culinary event. This one is an ethnic food paradise, where foodies pay for an afternoon of eating and drinking until you drop... of exhaustion, stomach seizures and such.

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Jonathan Gold's Last Hurrah For LA Weekly

Huffington Post Los Angeles | Sarah St. Lifer | Posted 03.05.2012

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Hosted at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Miracle Mile, LA Weekly's 4th annual Gold Standard on Sunday, March 5th was the foodie event of the year. ...

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Adults Are Kids, Too: Dinosaurs, Dr. Suess & More

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.02.2012

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FRIDAY Fashion On Wheels What: Get fashionable this Friday with Kate Spade and Brooklyn indie band Vivian Girls's traveling bus tour. The bus is dec...

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Jumping Ship! Gold To Leave L.A. Weekly

Posted 02.21.2012

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Jonathan Gold is jumping ship! The Pulitzer-prize winning food critic is leaving his long time home at LA Weekly for a new gig at the Los Angeles Time...

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5 Cheese Questions For A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Food Critic

culture magazine | Posted 02.12.2012

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When I lived in New York, I tended to spend about twice as much at Murray's each year as I did at every supermarket combined.

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The Queen Of The Great Los Angeles Hamburger

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 11.30.2011

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Earlier this year foodies, family and friends lost one of our most devoted chefs, Amy Pressman. She was a young 53 when she lost her battle with cance...

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Top Critic Pits World's Best Restaurants Head-To-Head

The Huffington Post | Joe Satran | Posted 08.21.2011

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LA Weekly's Jonathan Gold may be America's best restaurant critic. He's the only food writer ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism ("For his zest...

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Jonathan Gold Reviews Sang Yoon's Lukshon

LA Weekly | a a a Comments (1) | Posted 06.21.2011

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It is a warm spring night, with a hint of the Santa Anas in the air, and the least likely place in Los Angeles to experience a pastoral groove is prob...

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Heal the Bay Food Benefit Is Gold's Best Ever

Jay Weston | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is the unexpected gems which make an event like this such a treat... the discovery of flavorful bombs which blow your mind and stimulate your imagination.

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Ludobites 6.0 Reviewed By Jonathan Gold

Squid Ink | Posted 05.25.2011

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This was LudoBites' first residency in what could be termed an actual restaurant, the former site of Max and the much-missed Marché, and by the final...

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JGold Reviews Red Medicine

LA Weekly | Jonathan Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you were to have stumbled into Red Medicine this winter, maybe late after a movie, maybe with a reservation you booked two weeks early on OpenTable...

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Top Food Critics And Bloggers Describe The 2010 LA Dining Scene In One Word

Eater LA | Kat Odell | Posted 05.25.2011

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The close of 2010 is upon us, and as is the tradition here at Eater, we've surveyed a variety of bloggers, writers, and industry types to comment on t...

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Will Rock Bands, Food Trucks & Booze Make The Library Cool Again?

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Via The Beat Of Young Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Central Library in Downtown LA kicks off the first event in a series called "This Is Your Library.....

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Chef José Andrés vs. Jonathan Gold In A Molecular Gastronomy Battle Royale: Who's The Victor?

Posted 05.25.2011

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There are several chefs practicing "Modern" or "Avante Garde" cuisine who object strongly to the term "Molecular Gastronomy," finding it a limited and...

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Post-Twitter Battle, J. Gold Reviews Red O

LA Weekly | a a a Comments (4) | Posted 05.25.2011

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Red O, it is clear, is basically a consulting gig for Bayless, and the owners seem to be gambling on a hunch that Bayless' sleek, modern Mexican cooki...

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Events: Our Picks For Your Evening Out

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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Educate yourself about internet freedom from Columbia University professor Tim Wu, get to know the city from taste-makers Jonathan Gold and Bret Easto...

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Jonathan Gold Op-Ed: Food Trucks An LA Staple Worth Saving

latimes.com | Jonathan Gold | Posted 05.25.2011

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It is nearly midnight, and the local businesses have long been shuttered for the night. This part of town goes to bed early. Yet late on a drizzly Tue...

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Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential Restaurants List Revealed

LA Weekly | Posted 05.25.2011

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When is a restaurant not a restaurant? It's not a rhetorical question, actually, not this year. I really don't know. Because just as parts of Los Ange...

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Jonathan Gold & Bret Easton Ellis Chat At The Hammer Museum

Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Who: Restaurant critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jonathan Gold and acclaimed author Bret Easton Ellis What: Gold and Ellis will meet to discu...

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The 10 Most Battered Cookbooks In Food Writer Jonathan Gold's Kitchen

Squid Ink | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dear Mr. Gold: Do you always eat out? Do you ever eat at home? Do you have any cookbooks that you use a great deal? Just curious. −Maggs, Mar Vista...

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Food Fight!: Rick Bayless And Jonathan Gold Square Off On Twitter

la.eater.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Bayless, consulting chef at Red O, is on the defensive after seeing some less-than-favorable reviews about his new project and his particular sty...

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LA Food Critic Jonathan Gold On Paula Deen Being Named Grand Marshal Of 2011 Rose Parade

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Tournament of Roses announced Tuesday that Paula Deen will be the Grand Marshal of the 122nd Rose Parade, an honor which also includes tossing the...

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Jonathan Gold Tests The Test Kitchen

LA Weekly | a a a Comments (0) | Posted 05.25.2011

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So, in a way, the most interesting opening of the season may be neither WP24 nor the heavily promoted Red O but the new Test Kitchen, which is less a ...

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Jonathan Gold Slams New Santa Monica Place Dining Deck

LA Weekly | Posted 05.25.2011

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The top-level Dining Deck of the new Santa Monica Place mall seems almost custom-designed to make native Angelenos grumpy. The redesign scooped out al...

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