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Do You Follow Restaurant Openings and Closings?
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Do You Follow Restaurant Openings and Closings?

Yesterday the San Francisco Chronicle launched a new food blog, Inside Scoop SF, that's devoted to breaking restaurant news around the Bay Area.
by partysugar

Yesterday the San Francisco Chronicle launched a new food blog, Inside Scoop SF, that's devoted to breaking restaurant news around the Bay Area.

It's not the first website to provide this information; Eater, Grub Street, and Feast all give readers up-to-the-minute details on which restaurants are opening and closing, even going so far as to show images of restaurants being built.

Since my profession is devoted to food, I always pay attention to what's happening in the food scene in my city, and read these sites several times a day. But I'm wondering how interested in it are you?

The London Opens in LA, No HK Chefs in Sight
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The London Opens in LA, No HK Chefs in Sight

Gordon Ramsay's Los Angeles restaurant, the London, opened last night with a star-studded dinner service.
by partysugar

Gordon Ramsay's Los Angeles restaurant, the London, opened last night with a star-studded dinner service. However, the cheftestants from Hell's Kitchen were nowhere in to be found. This makes me wonder if the HK prize — to be chef of the London — is a little exaggerated. Perhaps they merely get to be a line cook there? Items from the menu are far more sophisticated than the dishes made on the reality show. The menu includes:

  • Baked foie-gras custard, crispy duck tongue, micro greens
  • Monkfish with crispy chicken skin, lemon-thyme consommé
  • Smoked pork belly with roasted Scottish langoustine, celeriac, and apple

For some reason I can't imagine Bobby, Jen, or Corey making any of these dishes. What do you think? Does one of the HK contestants really work at the London?

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