

Mad Food
Jordan Okun & Max Shapiro
Comedic food talk and even some respectful interviews with big name chefs, celebrities, and regular schnooks. Hosted by shrimp fanatic, uneducated eater, and horrific at home chef Jordan Okun. Coming to your ears straight out of Los Angeles, California.
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Jun 9, 2023 • 51min
The Beverly Hills Cheese Man
Dominick DiBartolomeo is the Italian stallion dairy king, operating The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills and outfitting many of the best restaurants in Los Angeles with the highest quality and hardest to find ingredients. Jordan and Shapiro travel into the store to talk their favorite cheeses, how Dom went from Staten Island to the golden state, and the boys get an exclusive taste of what The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills will offer when it moves into its new 90210 digs. Plus, talking authentic, the gouda of it all, and everyone disagrees with Jordan on his most overrated cheese list.

Jun 2, 2023 • 54min
First Time at Funke, Lingua Franca, Culver's and Crumbl
Jordan and Shaprio sit down to discuss their food and vibe impressions of the new Beverly Hills Italian hot spot, Frogtown's long anticipated river adjacent burger banger, all the fast food cheese curds and butter burgers that don't yet exist in L.A., and the cookies that has taken over the country.

May 26, 2023 • 55min
Jordan Goes Bananas
A dark food bender confession intro leads Jordan into sitting down with the co-founders of Gone Bananas Bread Company, Estee Stanley and Leah Smith, who are looking to corner Los Angeles and beyond with banana bread everything. The ladies talk their upcoming Farmer's Market at The Grove brick and mortar, how careers in design and styling led to loving hospitality, and they serve up many of their newest menu items to Jordan for a gone bananas test taste when he really should have been fasting.

May 19, 2023 • 1h 18min
Mayhem on Sunset: Horses & Bar Next Door
Yes, they're getting into it. Allegations and Horses rumors galore are discussed as well as all the possible fallout and what we do and do not know. Plus, Bar Next Door is now open in the heart of the Sunset Strip, so Jordan and Bubbles travel inside to meet bar director Brynn Smith, who serves up a cocktail taste test for Shapiro to decide if it's worth coming back to water that head.

May 13, 2023 • 1h 18min
Audience Questions with Dave Stassen
Dead L.A. restaurants, delivery tipping, post-bill table etiquette, Funke is here, Guisados IG beef, best burgers, top 5 shit candies, lots of wine with Bubbles, NBA playoffs, more Addison talk, and Mother's Day plans with Shaprio and Stassen.

May 5, 2023 • 1h 4min
3 Michelin Star Life
Chef William Bradley and his team at Addison have done it: the first Michelin three star restaurant in Southern California. Jordan and Max return to the Del Mar dining room to wine and dine before sitting down with William to talk the decades long reach for three stars, and how to maintain the mountaintop discipline at Addison. Plus, a guttural battle cry, caviar and rice with Uncle Pints, Jordan knows a thing or two about plating a dish, all the snacks, pigeon vs. cow, no tofu for you, and Bubbles liked the bubbles.

Apr 28, 2023 • 53min
A Night At La Dolce Vita
Food and fashion boss Jon Buscemi joins Jordan and Shapiro to recap a night out at the new and improved, old school Beverly Hills haunt, La Dolce Vita. The fellas talk L.A.'s red sauce scene, perfectly cooked shrimp, a surprising tartare, tomato "focash," an elegant take on sausage and peppers, the impossibly sized cheetah splattered space, Jordan's pathetic drink order, what vongole doesn't need, west coast kids not living the Italian ice life, and the biggest veal parm you've ever been served.

Apr 21, 2023 • 59min
Sees Candy with Josh Peck | Feng Mao & Osteria Mozza Dinners
Peckerman is back in the Sherman Oaks Food Building to talk the chocolate covered almonds and pecan butterscotch bars of a breakfast he and Jordan recently experienced on an epic Sees Candy factory tour. Then, Shapiro and Jordan review two recent meals they shared at a Koreatown lamb kebab palace and Nancy Silverton's ode to mozzarella and pasta. And Josh is never eating Ben & Jerry's again, the best Mozzaplex steak may not be at ChiSpacca, Bubbles' Rolex doesn't even work, and blindfolded L.A. druggies.

Apr 14, 2023 • 1h 16min
Pizzana's Candace Nelson & Daniele Uditi and Pizza City Fest LA
First up are Pizzana co-owners Candace and Daniele, who sit down with Jordan to talk how it all started at a Hollywood dinner party, "dough to go," Sprinkles ice cream rests in peace, frosting shots are alive and well, Pizzana brunch is coming, the perfect Caesar, and how the Pizzana Jordan pizza was born. Then, Jordan is joined by Pizza City Fest founder and James Bread award winner Steve Dolinsky, to talk LA vs. Chicago and New York, hot honey vs. ranch, pan pizzas reigning supreme, Steve's top 5 LA pies, and the first annual Southern California best of the best pizza celebration taking place April 29-30 at LA Live. Click here for Pizza City Fest LA tickets, and use code: FANDF to receive $10 off!

Apr 8, 2023 • 1h 32min
The Q & Ahdoot Episode
Actor and comedian Dan Ahdoot enters the food building to help Jordan and Shapiro answer audience questions, and it's all L.A.'s best chicken dishes, ice cream, and froyo, duck vs. squab, Instagram verifications, sex vs. food vs. money, meals with Air Jordan, and Jerry G's Sugarfish and Matū. Plus, Dan and Shapiro have a little too much in common, an impromptu dance competition, and a horrific Air Jordan death.


