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ANIMAL’S KINGDOM
Jon and Vinny and Keller and Kahan and Colicchio and Pomeroy and...
It’s been 10 years since Animal opened and it’s celebrating that fact with a massive, 18-night guest chef series. They’ll be doing one-off dinners with chefs like Thomas Keller, Tom Colicchio, Paul Kahan and Naomi Pomeroy. You can get your tickets 30 days in advance. Or spend eternity wondering what Keller got up to.
Thursday
FAMILY TIES
It's Finally Suppertime at Friends & Family
Until today, you’ve enjoyed going to Friends & Family in Hollywood for morning pastries and mid-day lunch. But now, you want more. So now, Roxana Jullapat and Daniel Mattern are doing dinner, so you can try their goat chops, rainbow trout and feta-stuffed apricots. Finally, a decent goat chop.
Saturday
JOINT SESSION
Breakfast Burritos in the Morning, Box Crab Hand Rolls at Lunch
What you’ll find at Sunday’s Burgers & Beer edition of LA Food Fest: —Burgers, beer, DJs and live music. —Kombucha ice cream floats. —Jam-inspired cocktails and mixology classes by the team at Cole’s. —Something called Churro Garage. —People, in all their splendid complexity.
OUT TO SEA
A Decadent Evening Cruise With an Exceptionally Specific Twist
Disco Dining Club and Our/LA are teaming up on a licentious yacht party through the Marina this weekend. Not just any licentious yacht party, but one themed after Grace Jones’ character in A View to a Kill. You know, that old party theme.
What Else Is New
MAN VS. MACHINE
Say Hello to Your Personal Robot Bartender
Its name is Barsys, and it’s an automated cocktail maker you can fit onto your countertop. In other news, it appears this year’s song of summer may not come from an American: here are our top five international contenders. And yesterday was apparently “710 Day,” a new stoner holiday for celebrating THC concentrates. Ergo, we rounded up some of the finest vape pens in all the land. Enjoy.
Hadley Tomicki lives in Los Angeles. He is probably going nowhere on the 10 Freeway this very second.