Baby Bistro Hype, Genghis Cohen 2.0, and North America's 50 Best Restaurants
Release Date: 09/26/2025
The Final Air Jordan, New Pod is Coming & Substack is Here
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
It's a Q&A to wrap it all up with Jordo and Bubbles giving final thoughts on the recent LA Times 101 Best list, westside eats, the impossible biz of restaurants, finishing the year strong with recent openings, Max's top 3 cooking tips for 2026, and the new pod and project are revealed. with all sorts of new content and access. Keep riding with us, show love, and stay connected as we continue this food thing.
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The L.A. Holiday Nog-Off
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Eggnog - that's the name of the game, as nine of the best booze minds in Los Angeles compete, with Shapiro's favorite bartender Max Reis pouring all the creamy holiday cheer down Jordan's throat, for him to decide the best nog in the land. Original takes on the spiked Christmas treat from Providence, Vandell, Birdie G's, Death & Co, Rustic Canyon, Bar Benjamin, Idyllwild Tavern, Oxalis, and MÃrate/Daisy Margarita are the participants in this blind, hyper-lactose competition. But Jordo doesn't go at it alone, Bubbles & Beautiful are along for the ride as a nog champion is crowned.
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LA Times 101 Best Restaurants Analysis
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Jordan and Max break it all down, from a shocker in the top spot to the 3 Michelin star Spanish hatred. Plus, the paper's neopotism picks, strange disregard for a phenom, continued Budonok disrespect, the hall of fame inductee to appease Jordo, sushi snubs, and Bill Addison finally exposed himself (but not like Max).
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The Q&A: New Restaurants, 2025 Best & Worst, Pod Rebranding, Michelin Steak, Grapes & Gripes
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Plus lots of booze talk including holiday gifting, Max & Helen's wait times and other diner options, a short Little Fish review, decanting bubbles, a Chinese LA Christmas, the perfect restaurant reservation time, Jordan's top 3 Grateful Dead shows, food text threads, not cutting pizza, New Orleans and New York are on the horizon, and Thanksgiving reviews.
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William Bradley's 3 Michelin Star Answers
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Addison by William Bradley is the OG of this local three Michelin star dining thing, and Jordan and Max have travelled to Del Mar once again to dine and sit with Will to talk the past, present, and future of California gastronomy in the Caramel Valley. And it's all chef collabs, an Addison makeover is coming soon, the one ingredient, the best season, calling everyone chef, temperatue changes, the story of eggs and rice, cheesy nicknames, Max the inspector, Jordan knows a thing or two, and William's ultimate goal.
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The Holidays with Annie & Hallie Meyers-Shyer
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
When hosting this holiday season, you need to know what's chic. You need to know what's classic. Annie and Hallie Meyers-Shyer know a thing or two about all of that, so Jordan and Max sit down with the sisters of Hollywood royalty to talk everything Thanksgiving, Christmas, and even some Hanukkah. What follows is an appetizer debate, a baked brie beatdown, a worse sweet potato casserole assault, Nancy Meyers' gravy recipe text (which we share below), and the French mashed potatoes to pour it all over. Plus, canned vs. homemade cranberry sauce, acceptable leftovers, the day after Meyers-Shyer...
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Max May Have A Personality Disorder & 3 New Restaurant Visits: The Wilkes, Yhing Yhang, and Cannonball
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
A chef's recent email to Max has Jordan concerned, and then the fellas talk dining at new restaurants on the scene, and it's all Brentwood cougars, sweet butters, the Pasadena schlep, shrimp balls, a salt issue, the spoonable pasta, poor Bill Bush, booze enhancing food, and let's stop with the "American bistro" thing.
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Anonymous Sources Tell-All: Restaurant Customer Worst Behaviors
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Restaurant workers of Los Angeles and beyond have written in with the biggest pet peeves they deal with when serving diners, and it's all splitting bills, booze behavior, showing up early and late, too much talky, not enough tippy, stacking dishes, eager early birds, knowing the owner, crying kids, filming the staff, and Jordan is ordering his steak like a monster apparently.
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The Q&A: Hillstone Problems, Tipping Rules, Dodger Stadium Bites, Taco Crawling & The Restaurants That Currently Define LA
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Jordan and Max return to answer audience questions, and it's the one big restaurant gimmick, seed oil freaks, sauna and ice, and spas, pricey tasting menus, the problems with Hilstone, managing generally, Thanksgiving protiens, Diddy Riese ice cream sandwich construction, Max's height and bubble intake, and too much tippy.
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The Biggest Restaurant Pet Peeves
Air Jordan: A Food Podcast
Jordo and Bubbles go all in on the worst restaurant behavior, and it's all complaints on memorizing the order, no more telephones, bad instincts, additional tip lines, chef bonafides foreplay, waiting for your entire party, molesting tables, overcooked meats, butter temperatures, clearing plates, bad corkage, water semantics, sticking to ya culture, and way too much talky. But first, the fellas are joined by the PHD, who reviews recent trips to Muse and Peter Luger.
info_outlineWelp, another ridiculous list has hit the food media landscape, so Jordan and Max break all the losing and winning down. But first, Genghis Cohen has finally re-opened in a new location and the fellas have the shrimp toast and orange chicken first look featuring a member of Jordan's family. And no restaurant in Los Angeles is currently more hyped than Baby Bistro, so the fellas talk it and their experience with the Echo Park farmer's market driven hospitality house.