Food is the New Rock #38 is now out featuring…
Chef DAVID MYERS from HINOKI & THE BIRD
He invites Zach into his new restaurant and tells us what he would do if he ever got to cook for Jimmy Hendrix, where he thinks Thom Yorke should eat when he comes to L.A. and what kind of music he likes to unwind to after a long day of cooking. Plus he tells us about the time he took his kitchen staff to see Sigur Ros, and admits that his first concert ever was the Beach Boys. First concert without the parents? The Ramones.
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Joe Hahn from Linkin Park recommends these four restaurants in L.A.’s Koreatown
This week’s Food is the New Rock podcast is up and features…
CHEECH MARIN and Chef JOHN SEDLAR
Obviously you know Cheech from his important work as half of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, but did you also know that he is an avid cook? He competed on Rachel & Guy’s Celebrity Cook Off on the Food Network, and last month hosted a dinner at the Los Angeles restaurant Playa. Just before dinner we got to sit down at the restaurant with him and Playa Chef John Sedlar to talk food and music. Cheech told us about the origin of his name, where he buys his beans, and how pizza delivery is going to be worked into his Cheech & Chong app “The Fatty”.
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And while the music may tend toward the sort of ’80s rock your meathead younger brother may have stashed on his iPod, at least you are not picking at your hearts of palm salad to the beat of hotel-lobby electronica.
On this week’s podcast, we’re excited and proud to welcome Wil-Dog and Ulises from the seminal L.A. hip hop/latin/rock band…
OZOMATLI
…to Bronson Island. We talk about all the food they’ve eaten on tour, traveling around the world as cultural ambassadors to the U.S. From L.A. to Nepal, Mexico to Vietnam, these guys have been everywhere and have always been game to try the local cuisine. They share a few of those stories with us.
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Three weeks ago, Mr. Puck unveiled an entirely reinvented Spago Beverly Hills, with a décor he describes as “edgy,” a soundtrack of Arcade Fire and Spoon, and a menu sprinkled with adventurous small-plate offerings that have some of his bluer-hair customers wincing.
Michael Voltaggio is this week’s Food is the New Rock podcast guest! He talks to us about Tom Collicchio, food bloggers, and his favorite place to take the ladies (spoiler: it’s a New Kids on the Block concert). We also get him to admit that receiving a Food Club plaque from Aziz Ansari, Jason Woliner, and Eric Wareheim was better than winning Top Chef.
Thank you universe. Thank you.
My first restaurant column for The Times, written when I was still a music writer who answered his phone “Guns N’ Rosesdesk,” was about the concept of single-dish restaurants, places like Lawry’s, Shiro and Philippe, whose menus may be as long as a remix of “November Rain” but which might as well serve just the one thing they are famous for.
