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Help Wheelchair-Bound Videographer Get a New Van

In 2004, on the day before Father's Day, Ron Sarfaty collapsed at Disneyland after suffering a massive stroke. Subsequently paralyzed on his left side and confined to a wheelchair, he was forced to give up his career as a military prototype developer. It took him two years to re-learn how to drive. ... More >>

10 Best French Macarons in Los Angeles

French macarons are glorious confections, little sandwiches of buttercream or ganache filling pressed between two meringue disks. (They are not to be confused with macaroons, which are coconut, and most definitely do not resemble tiny round pastry sandwiches.) When well-made, macarons are delicate c ... More >>

Jin Patisserie in Venice Closing

For all of you who love nothing better than to sip tea and eat Kristy Choo's glorious macarons on Jin Patisserie's charming outside patio, you're going to need to get there soon for a few last tea times. Choo's Abbott Kinney shop will be closing its doors for good on Sunday, March 24. Choo sites a ... More >>

Bittersweet Treats Now Open in Pasadena: Whoopie Pies, Rose Cakes Figgy Bars for the Holidays

Pasadena, once the closest thing L.A. had to a food desert, is finally going through something of a renaissance. With the recent additions of Umami Burger and Float, there's also a lovely new dessert shop. Danielle Keene and business partner Linda Chen quietly opened Bittersweet Treats last Tuesday. ... More >>

An August Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

Summer is nearly over, but the heat shows no signs of slowing. Here to help is Brentwood's newest sugary addition, Sweet Crush Ice Bar. The frozen dessert shop brings "traditional Asian shaved ice to the masses" with flavors such as Earl Grey, mango, coconut and grapefruit ginger. With the end of a ... More >>

The Star Wars Death Star Tea Infuser: Make a Cuppa with the Empire's Ultimate Weapon

Over the weekend, folks of all stripes landed in Orlando, Florida for Star Wars Celebration VI, the ultimate Star Wars fan convention that undoubtedly was more fun than the Republican National Convention will be this week. Of course, where there are Star Wars geeks, there are ingenious Star Wars-th ... More >>

Best Afternoon Tea: The Langham Huntington Hotel

Augustus Gloop would never make it out alive. What makes Pasadena's Langham Huntington Hotel the best choice for afternoon tea can be summed up in one word: chocolate. On Sundays from noon to 5 p.m., the hotel's regular tea service, smashing in itself, is replaced by an all-chocolate afternoon tea. ... More >>

5 Best Gelato Shops in Los Angeles

Guzzle & NoshAssorted flavors at Gelato Bar in Los Feliz.​Yesterday, we listed the 5 Best Ice Cream Shops in Los Angeles. Today, we move onto gelato. Taxonomy is crucial in these matters. 5. Gelato Bar (Los Feliz, Studio City): Owned by Gail Silverton (sister of Mozza pizza queen Nancy), Gela ... More >>

LA's Top 10 Ice Cream & Gelato Spots

Guzzle & Nosh​[Catch up on the full 30 Scoops in 30 Days trek in our sweet, creamy archive.] Americans remember President Ronald Reagan as any number of things: The Great Communicator, a proponent of trickle-down economics, a hack former actor with a penchant for chimpanzees. Few, however, kn ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets.

Drink This Now: Earl Grey Martinez at 320 Main in Seal Beach A Cocktail Recipe

Caroline on Crack320 Main's Earl Grey Martinez.​ Back in 2009, bartender Audrey Saunders introduced tea-infused cocktails to Los Angeles at Tar Pit on La Brea Avenue, where she partnered with Mark Peel (Campanile) on an extensive drinks menu. Saunders is long gone from Tar Pit, but tea-infused ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Culinary Tea, Or What To Do With All Those Ceylon Gift Tins

Photo Credit: Steve Legato​Coffee is one of those gifts that tends to fall into the select giving category -- only those friends whom you're certain love the dark stuff will be blessed with a bag of premium roast. Tea, not so much, as those little bags of perky mint and robust Orange Pekoe see ... More >>

Last Night at Wolvesden: The 13-Course, Underground Supper Club

Gastronomnom.comTomato, bacon cake, bacon, basil​ We learned about Wolvesmouth entirely by accident. While trolling through the LA Weekly Flickr pool, searching for a daily blog photo, we came across a real visual standout. The dish, called "F**k BP Oil Spill," was a culinary response to a nat ... More >>

The Madlib Mystique

An exclusive interview with underground hip-hop's most elusive producer

On the Cover: The Elusive Madlib Gives His First U.S. Interview in Four Years

Star Foreman​For this week's L.A. Weekly cover story, writer Jeff Weiss pens an intimate piece on L.A.'s own oft-elusive living legend, Madlib. We visit the producer in his hallowed studio, "surrounded by samplers, CDs, cassette decks, 4- and 8-track recorders, keyboards and drum kits -- no c ... More >>

Coke's Freestyle Soda Machine Printers: One Step Closer to "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot."

​ Any of you guys try the new Coca Cola "Freestyle" machines yet? These are the super futuristic touchscreen soda machines that give you 100 flavors of Coke products that are made by a printer. Yes, a printer. I don't understand it. I had to read the description several times. Frankly, it scar ... More >>

American Tea Room Opens Full Service Tea Bar: Let them Eat Earl Grey Petits Fours

American Tea Room in Beverly Hills is a high end retailer of organic and non-organic teas, accessories and accoutrements, a spot where you can mosey on in after shopping (or window shopping) on Rodeo Drive, after grabbing a bite to eat with the posh 90210 crowd at Enoteca Drago across the street. Si ... More >>

Finding Macaroons

From eye-popping colors to chocolate with sea salt

Ask Mr. Gold: Finding Macaroons, From Eye-Popping Colors to Chocolate with Sea Salt

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: I was a big fan of the delicate, light-as-air macaroons they used to sell at the now-defunct Boule, on La Cienega. I always thought they made a nice gift and loved dropping by and getting a couple whenever I needed a sweet t ... More >>

Photo Gallery: Hare Today, Wild Boar Sopes Tomorrow at Bistro LQ

Need a visual aid for your print edition? This week Jonathan Gold considers Laurent Quinoux's mercurial cooking at Bistro LQ ("Wild hare is strong meat: Cooked like this, it develops the divine stink of the woods in fall, of distant gunpowder, of erotic practices illegal in several Midwestern states ... More >>

23rd Annual Great Chefs of L.A.: Hot Ticket, Hot Chefs, Hot Weather

This past Sunday on a unseasonably sultry afternoon in Studio City, over 800 foodies gathered to enjoy the fall/winter fixings from some of our city's hottest chefs at the 23rd Annual Great Chefs of L.A., a benefit hosted by comedian George Lopez which raised $150,000 for the National Kidney Foundat ... More >>

World Tea Expo Report: Cutting Edge Teapot Technology

The Hario Chaor Tea Maker snagged the "Best New Product" award at the World Tea Expo this weekend. Sungarden Tea company is the official North American exporter of Hario heat resistant glassware. The dapper Japanese gentleman demonstrating the winning product at their booth in the Mandalay Bay Con ... More >>

Dame Edna, Makeup Muse: Painting the Town Varicose Violet

Think Possum Nose Pink

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast [Low Life Records/Riddim Killa] Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this decade, and by "break" I mean getting the American music press to hype them as the best thing since Earl Grey a ... More >>

In Hot Water

Where to spend teatime in L.A.

De Tocqueville, Part Deux

Bernard-Henri Lévy on American sex, American religion and American Vertigo

10 Questions With The Lovetones

Hooray for Hellmouths