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Eater's Digest

Why Britain's Most Influential Restaurant is Moving to L.A.

Eater's Digest

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Anthony Bourdain once called St. John the "restaurant of his dreams." The London restaurant, which has long been considered the most influential in Britain and the origin of the modern nose-to-tail movement, is celebrating its 25th birthday this week with plans to open its first ever location outside of Britain's capital... in a Los Angeles mall. What does this mean for the restaurant's sterling legacy and L.A.'s growing food scene? Can a London hometown hero open in a Culver City development and still be cool? To find out, we called up Adam Coghlan, Eater's London editor who first broke the story, and Farley Elliot, Eater's Los Angeles editor. Then, we get into the biggest food stories of the week, from Nick Cage's foray into truffle hunting, to what's going on with weed cafés on the west coast (with the Washington Post's Maura Judkis) and what happened when Dan fell asleep in a library (we promise it relates to food!). Also! We've got a survey out that'll help us make the Digest better and better. It takes no more than five minutes, and it really helps us out! Take it here. Stories: • St. John is Opening in LA • Nick Cage Set to Play a Truffle Hunter • Burger King is Taking Pictures of Their Sleepy Customers Featuring: Adam Coghlan (@adamcoghlan) Farley Elliott (@overoverunder) Maura Judkis (@maurajudkis) Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater Produced by: Martha Daniel (@martha_c_daniel) More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the Giants wherever you listen to hear new episodes every Wednesday. From the newsroom at Eder, I'm Amanda Clute.

0:45.0

And I am Daniel Janine.

0:49.0

And this is Eder's Digest, a show about all things food and dining.

0:52.0

With a little help from. Digest a show about all things food and dining.

0:57.3

With little help from the biggest names in the world of food and the journalists here at Eater, we try to understand what's happening right now in kitchens, restaurants, and

1:01.1

dining rooms around the world.

1:02.6

Today on the show, we are going heavy on stories,

1:04.6

starting with the breaking news that London Restaurant,

1:07.5

St John, is expanding to a Los Angeles mall.

1:11.6

This is a mall we have talked about on the show quite a bit

1:14.2

before it's called the platform. It's not going to stop us from talking about it

1:17.0

again. No, no. I am so excited to talk about this. So we're going to get

1:20.5

into that. It's amazing how much this mall has, is like a now a gravitational center of all food media

1:26.8

news.

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