Atwater

More Events: The Hungry Cat's 2-Year Anniversary, Casino Angeleno Taste of the Eastside

The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary David Lentz is celebrating the second anniversary of The Hungry Cat's Santa Monica location by offering happy hour menu and oysters at half price all day today. WHAT: The Hungry Cat's Two-Year Anniversary WHEN: Thursday, April 25 WHERE: The Hungry Cat, 100 W. C ... More >>

LA2050 Is Giving $100,000 For an Art Project, and You Can Vote on Who Gets It

Making ideals reality can take a frustratingly long time, especially for organizations in need of funding. Grant-writing and paperwork often come first, followed by waiting. That's part of what's exciting about My LA2050, the $1 million challenge the Goldhirsh Foundation, a philanthropic outfit with ... More >>

Atwater Village Is L.A.'s Hippest Neighborhood (Sorry, Silver Lake)

Sorry, Silver Lake. You've been replaced as L.A.'s top hipster neighborhood, as far as we're concerned. The in-the-know readers of Curbed LA have declared this week that Atwater Village, and not the stereotypical icon of L.A. cool, Silver Lake, is the site's "neighborhood of the year" for 2012. Ye ... More >>

Float Opens in Pasadena: A Hidden, Well-Curated Cafe

At first inspection, the recently opened Float in Pasadena might appear to be simple and cozy new-wave coffeeshop -- one that serves locally roasted Handsome Coffee and tea from LA Mill. In this part of Pasadena, wedged into an alley of the South Lake Avenue shopping district which looks like it cou ... More >>

Where the Chefs Eat: The Hungry Cat's David Lentz

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, David Lentz, chef and owner of The Hungry Cat, tells us his favorite spot to eat these days. Like many chefs we speak to for this series, David Lentz is pressed for time. ... More >>

The Best Concerts To See in L.A. This Week: Oct 29-Nov 2

Monday, October 29 The Monolators, et al. THE ECHO In a week already oozing with Halloween events, this particular Monday oozes very competitively with four decades of alt-classics via five much-loved local bands. Most intriguing is the warhorse indie-pop band Monolators' Bee Gees set. Will they do ... More >>

Music Picks: Lamb of God, Miike Snow, and Hanni El Khatib

Now Open: The Sqirl Cafe with G&B Coffee

If there was ever a moment in which L.A.'s community of small-scale artisanal food and coffee makers located east of Vermont spontaneously coalesced, it would be hard to rival the soft opening at Sqirl café featuring G&B coffee service this morning. If someone looked vaguely familiar, odds were str ... More >>

Thank You For Coming Launches Restaurant Residency Program

Atwater Village's Kickstarter-funded "restaurant project" Thank You for Coming announced yesterday that it had finally received its approval from the L.A. County Health Department and plans to host its first open house on June 21, from noon to midnight. Thank You For Coming aims to become L.A.'s f ... More >>

4:20 Yoga Class in Atwater Village: Getting Bendy While Baked

Elizabeth McDonaldLiz McDonald practices yoga on a beach in Brazil while smoking a fat cartoon joint. ​ Take a nice deep inhale, press the feet, elongate the neck and allow any sort of tension to just drop out of the head, but don't think about food. We'll be needing to relax the booty muscles ... More >>

Atwater Village Farm Market Preview Tonight

Rachael Narinsjam and toast​ Tonight, July 28th, the Atwater Village Farm Market will be open for a sneak preview as part of the very charming Atwater Village's Summer Nights on the Boulevard from 5 to 10 p.m. at 3224 Glendale Boulevard. If you haven't been to one of these exceptionally well-o ... More >>

Jimenez Family Farm: For "Thrifty" Lamb Necks And Whole Rabbits How To Cook Them

JgarbeePre-Roast Pet Rabbit Guilt​The Jimenez Family Farm motto, "everything under the sun," is more than apt for this Santa Ynez-based family business that offers up an assortment of produce (check out the gorgeous blueberries and boysenberries this time of year), salsas and preserves, and ho ... More >>

Wine Bar Pop-Up: Ubriaca LA from Domaine LA

In Italian, the word ubriaca means "drunk," which is what you may be, if you sample all the wines on tap at LA's newest pop-up, Ubriaca LA (@ubriacaLA). A wandering wine bar hosted by Domaine LA's Jill Bernheimer and her cohort Whitney Adams (Brunellos Have More Fun), each event focuses on a diffe ... More >>

Hipsteropolis Rising: Taste of the Eastside Food Festival

Anne FishbeinAn egg sandwich from Auntie Em's​ Even though Hipsteropolis has completely arrived as a desirable part of town (at least if celebrity residents and real estate prices are any indication), it hasn't yet lost that little-brother, underdog feeling. Like UCLA football (not arrived) a ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: The Pavlova

LA Weekly Flickr pool/R. E. ~Pavlova at Proof Bakery​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer R. E. ~. (Yes, again.) It's a gorgeous shot of a pavlova at Proof Bakery in Atwater. A properly made pavlova is a gorgeous thing, as befits a dessert named after a Russian ball ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: The Super Bowl Edition, or Where To Get BBQ For The Game

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Can you recommend anywhere to get takeout food for Super Bowl Sunday? Perhaps barbecue? Thanks! --S. Goin, Los Angeles Dear Ms. Goin: Barbecue is a fine idea, in fact probably the best. My in-laws favor vast trays of jalapeño poppers fr ... More >>

Turning a Page

Best Barbecue

Sunshine on a gloomy day

Ask Mr. Gold: Best BBQ, or Sunshine on a Gloomy Day

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: So okay, not to be like everybody else who does this, but... It's my wife's birthday, and we gotta get a big bunch of barbecue - Southern American, not Southern Korean - for a group of 10ish. There are a lot of barbecue restaurants out ... More >>

99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die

Fugu to foie gras, pizza to panuchos

Honey Cake at Atwater's Village Bakery: Bees and Bundts, Honey and Hives

Richard Williams​At the Village Bakery in Atwater this weekend, owner and baker Barbara Monderine was busy making a beehive-shaped cake with honey from bees raised by her friends Amy Seidenwurm & Russell Bates. (The LA Times ran a piece back in March on local beekeepers, including the Silverla ... More >>

Q & A With Corina Weibel of Canelé, Part 2: Wooden Spoons, Cooking to OutKast

Corina Weibel of Canelé in Atwater and Jane Choi, the restaurant's GM and Weibel's business partner, run a cozy place. The menu is written on chalk on the wall, there's a big communal table near the picture window, the bar is so close to the stoves that you can talk to the chef (and even tape an in ... More >>

Your Month in Review: October Restaurant Openings

It seems that nearly as many restaurants opened as reopened in the city of Los Angeles last month. Some restaurants got makeovers, some changed hands, and others took risks. Take the pork-themed Flying Pig Truck that set out on the streets of Los Angeles in the midst of the Swine Flu scare. On the t ... More >>

Fly Fishing in the L.A. River

Thanks to The Eastsider L.A. for flagging a wonderfully quirky site devoted to city fly-fishing. UrbanFlyVentures, the blog straightforwardly tells us, is "dedicated to urban fly fisherman." A recent post by Dan Zambrano says his Google aerial-map research on the Morris and Station wildfires inadver ... More >>

French-Dipping Into Hard Times

In his "Recession Obsession" inventory of low-priced but tasty eateries, LAist's Caleb Bacon reports on that reliable staple, Philippe's. (More officially known as Philippe the Original.) Even with nearby Yee Mee Loo's and the postal sorting center long gone, Philippe's remains a packed venue, and w ... More >>

Sushi and be Seen

California rolls at Katsuya; Vice disappoints; birthdays, bashes and indie X-mas bling

Beat Streets

First Bite: Bon Appetit

Best Landlocked Treasure Island

Arthur, Arthur!

Jay Babcock

Ask Mr. Gold: Pizza Dough

Cash, Grass and Ass

Revels Without a Pause

The backyard party life of teens

Saved... by Rock & Roll

Steak Houses

Sofas and the City

Silver Lake

They're Just Men From Detroit

Hard Place see sparks in L.A.

11 Cool Views of the L.A. River

Stars and Bars

A night lover’s guide to party spots

Atwater Rising

How Do People Live in This World?

Beautiful Dreamers

Before . . . and Atwater

The Terror War on Drugs

The martyrdom of Steve Treleaven

Wanted: A Real Mayor

Two issues could make Hahn history

Sausage on the Brain

Berlin Journal

Bomb the Love Republik

Dark Stars

Tam o’ Shanter

Bread

And the crimes against it