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Quintessence, a wild child
By Tom Maicon at July 7, 2010 | 9:43 pm | 0 Comment
Originally brewed by Crawford Moran (a guest brewer at that time) for the popular brewpub’s 5th anniversary. I have a long head-spinning history with this crafty quintuple (is there such a thing?), and I must say it can be a wild one. At first taste, I was blown away — one of the best beers I’d ever bellied up to. Two days later, though still quite a more...
Yeah! Burger enters city-wide burger wars
By Tom Maicon at June 15, 2010 | 10:45 pm | 2 Comments
When I was kid my father would rant to us that a real hamburger should measure at least one inch-and-half thick, and must be topped with a mandatory — artery-plugging — half pound of bacon. According to him, a hamburger cooked on a flat top is an imposter, he believed — and, still does to this day — that real burgers should be cooked over an open flame. more...
Hankook Taqueria: A Korean Taco Joint
By Tom Maicon at October 22, 2009 | 4:45 pm | 0 Comment
The words Korean and tacos seem so far removed one would think the two wouldn’t be mentioned in the same paragraph — let alone the same sentence. Laugh all you want, Korean tacos is a big rage in LA these days, but mostly served out of taco trucks. Hankook Taqueria (1341 Collier Road. 404-352-8881) isn’t a taco truck, but it’s the first to attempt this wacky more...
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