Places

Oh man, we're super excited about this one. The popular Brooklyn BBQ Blowout is back for another season, its sixth. How did that happen? As a refresher, the event is hosted by our dudes at Finger On The Pulse and features guest chefs, guest DJs and cheap beer (in various quantities). On Tuesday, May 14 it all begins at Good Company Bar in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Since closing down his superb Mezze, Food Republic favorite Micah Wexler has set up shop inside Umamicatessen, that downtown LA depository of multiple restaurants under one roof. Wexler is playing with a large question: how do you cook an entire city? Every Thursday, he picks a different element of Los Angeles and cooks a menu to fit the theme. Read on.

Grace Lee, who runs video promotions ops at Columbia Records and works with guys like Beyoncé and Juicy J, is a friend of my wife Tamar. If it isn’t clear, Grace is really damn cool. So we were having dinner one night at a Korean restaurant when she casually mentioned that she would be flying to Tokyo explicitly to eat at one of the Jiro Ono restaurants, the chef featured in the award winning documentary Jiro Dreams Of Sushi. It's what many think and few do. Grace is a doer.