Welcome to episode 100. We hosted a live show to celebrate at Little Joy Cocktails in Echo Park, and what you’re about to hear is the recording of said live show. Father Sal and I were joined by Eater’s Mona Holmes to run through the headlines of the day and to play a round of Chef’s Kiss Big Miss. We debuted the first-ever LA Food Pod quiz - big thanks and sincere apologies to David Turkell of Turk’s Pizza Party for participating. And, finally, we had a conversation with Jackson Kalb of Ospi, Jemma, and Top Chef fame, on running a restaurant in today’s tricky economic environment, among other things.

But first, Father Sal joins me for some slightly indulgent navel-gazing on what this podcast means to us, and we also quickly touch on some exciting events we attended this week, including a very insightful panel discussion on restaurant PR and marketing hosted by New School, and a comedy show presented by none other than former Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi.

Helpful links:

Mona Holmes https://www.instagram.com/monaeats/?hl=en

Jackson Kalb https://www.instagram.com/jacksonkalb/?hl=en

Ospi https://ospi.com/venice

Jemma https://jemmarestaurants.com/

Little Joy https://littlejoy.la/

The LA Food Pod Live Show was produced by:

Robert Haleblian https://www.instagram.com/robert_haleblian/?hl=en

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