Week in Reviews: No Miss Irene, But The Bazaar, XIV, Cafe Was, Luau and More Elsewhere

Blanca at The Bazaar by Jose Andres

No LAT review this week, and the magazines haven't put out December issues yet, so here we are with all the ELSEWHERE: In addition to ours and his, even more bloggers were at The Bazaar opening night; Jonathan Gold gives his First Bite review of XIV; Miss Irene does check out Luau for a non-review; Caroline on Crack details a media dinner at Ivan Kane's Cafe Was, and she tries the Large Marge at Stinkers; Franklin Avenue investigates the newish Butter Tart in Glassell Park; a gaggle of foodbloggers were invited to Ford's Filling Station for suckling pig; LAist tries dim sum at Equator in Pasadena; Food, She Thought was at Tasca last week; Rainy Days revisits childhood favorite Casa del Rey in Temple City; and LA & OC Foodventures finally gives Royal/T Cafe a go.