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4 food events you should know about: L.A. Street Food Fest, Hungry Cat’s Gulf Benefit, ‘Power of Miso,’ more Ludo Bites 5.0

By Betty HallockDeputy Food Editor 
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Mark your calendars:

July 24: The L.A. Street Food Fest takes place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on Saturday, with 60 vendors including Antojitos Carmen, Cemitas y Clayudas Pal Cabron, Dim Sum Truck, Mo-Chica, Grilled Cheese Truck and Ta Bom. General-admission tickets are already sold out, but there are still some VIP tickets available. (Tickets are available in advance only, not at the door.) The VIP ticket, at $65, gets you early entrance during a preview hour from 4 to 5 p.m. and special parking; there will be unlimited samples of eats and drinks, a photo booth and performances by Warpaint and the Deadly Syndrome. 4 to 5 p.m. preview, 5:30 to 9 p.m. general admission. Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena. Go to www.lastreetfoodfest.com for tickets.
July 24: On Saturday, reservations for the remaining weeks of Ludo Lefebvre’s pop-up restaurant LudoBites 5.0 at Gram & Papas will open at 9:30 a.m. Reservations will be available at www.ludobites.com and are provided by OpenTable. The remaining dates are Aug. 4 to Sept. 3 (Monday to Friday nights). Ludo Bites will be closed Aug. 19 and 20.

July 27: A share of the sales from the Hungry Cat’s Gulf Benefit on Tuesday will go to the ‘Adopt a Fisherman’ relief fund, an effort to help those who have lost their livelihoods because of the oil spill. The menu includes a full raw bar with crawfish and head-on shrimp; gem lettuces with blue crab, egg, buttermilk and mustard; oysters en brochette; alligator beignets; gumbo with shrimp, crab and andouille sausage; trout amandine; soft-shell crab po’ boy; pan-roasted soft-shell crawfish, grits and fried green tomatoes; and blackened redfish with corn puree, succotash and crab pearls. Among the drink options are a Creole julep, Hurricane, Vieux Carre and Sazerac. 1535 N. Vine, Hollywood, (323) 462-2155, www.thehungrycat.com.

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July 29: The next dinner in Breadbar’s Hatchi series stars Makoto Okuwa of Sashi Sushi & Sake Lounge, titled ‘The Power of Miso.’ The featured ingredient? Um, miso. As always, eight dishes for eight dollars. Breadbar Century City, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 277-3770, www.breadbar.net.

-- Betty Hallock

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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