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Noah Galuten joins as co-host to discuss LA's culinary landscape and the impact of chefs on the city's food culture.

Today on The LA Food Podcast , James Beard Award-winning author, restaurateur, and longtime Angeleno Noah Galuten joins as guest co-host for a wide-ranging conversation on LA’s past, present, and future as a food city. In a moment where the restaurant world is dominated by headlines around René Redzepi and Noma, we take a different approach. Instead of focusing on controversy, we draft our Mount Rushmore of Los Angeles chefs —asking a deceptively simple question: who actually changed the game? Not just the best chefs, but the ones who reshaped how LA eats, cooks, and thinks about food. The result is a competitive, snake-style draft filled with legacy picks, bold calls, and a few names that might spark debate. We also dig into recent meals across the city, including Bistro Na’s , Loreto in Frogtown , and Secret Pizza , before diving into Noah’s career. From his early days running the influential food blog Man Bites World , to helping define some of LA’s most important restaurants of the 2010s, to his upcoming cookbook Grill Time , Noah shares how he’s built a career at the intersection of media, restaurants, and storytelling. In Chef’s Kiss / Big Miss , we break down some of the…

People in this episode

Guest: Noah Galuten

Topics covered

• LA food scene
• chef legacy
• restaurant culture
• food media
• pop-up restaurants
• art and artist debate

Keywords

• LA chefs
• food podcast
• restaurant history
• Noma controversy
• chef Mount Rushmore
• food storytelling
• pop-up culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Noma, Bistro Na, Loreto, Secret Pizza

Books & works: Grill Time

Places: Los Angeles, Frogtown

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