No doubt about it, last week was a tough week. When it finally came to the weekend we were in desperate need of distraction. Something fun. Something entertaining. Something different. Something fucking weird.
While many hit the 10 and flocked to the Coachella Valley desert to get their dose of musical strange, more than five thousand smartly stuck around Los Angeles and attended the annual cheesy bacchanalia known as the Grilled Cheese Invitational. No longer a spring chicken, now in it’s eleventh incarnation, the GCI stands as one of LA’s most premiere – if not, odd (-ly entertaining) – annual food events.
’Tis the season… of Best Of lists. Never to shy away from the holiday spirit, I am very pleased (for the third year in a row) to present Unemployed Eater’s very own enumeration, 2012’s Top 12 LA Foodstuffs Under $12. Twenty-twelve was a blessed year for the blog as I ate and drank my way through Los Angeles greater than I ever had before…
Executive judging LA’s annual Grilled Cheese Invitational [Open article] is very akin to being tossed in a boxing ring with heavyweight opponents in every corner, simultaneously pounding you with cheese, butter and bread haymaker after cheese, butter and bread haymaker.
When you have the distinguished privilege of judging three consecutive Los Angeles Cupcake Challenges [Open article] you learn a few things about cake’s little sister.
The 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational: Cherish The Cheese [Open article]
The LA culinary scene is great, but if I eat one more pork belly sweet potato hiramasa short rib foie gras terrine beet salad, I may regurgitate.
Mike shares his 2010 Top 10 Under $10 LA bites from over at his The Unemployed Eater [Open article]:
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