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Christina Tosi and Zoe Nathan Give a Science & Food Talk at UCLA A Pie Personality Quiz

An apple pie bake-off with a twist opened the final installment of the UCLA Science & Food lecture series this past Sunday, in which students enrolled in the corresponding undergraduate class vied for the best in final group project. The range of theories, as it turned out, would expand further when ... More >>

Happy Hour: Duck Wings and Sangria at Blue Cow Kitchen in Downtown L.A.

Place: Blue Cow Kitchen, 350 S. Grand Ave., Los Angeles; (213) 621-2249. Hours: Weekdays 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (drinks); 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (food) Deals: A two-sided, postcard-sized menu begins with $5 well cocktails -- vodka, rum, gin, whiskey or tequila -- with a choice of mixer. There are ... More >>

Meatless Mondays: Homestyle Taiwanese at Bean Sprouts Restaurant in Arcadia

Taiwanese cuisine has gained recognition for its street food, night market eats, and even beef noodle soup, but what might be overlooked is the accessibility of vegetarian fare throughout the island. A Jan. 13, 2011, article published in CommonWealth Magazine reported that flexible vegetarianism bec ... More >>

Happy Hour: Biergarten in Koreatown

Place: Biergarten, 206 N. Western Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 466-4860. Hours: Weekdays 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., excluding holidays. Deal: A one-page menu with deals on beer pints and bar bites priced between $3.50 to $7.50, including German fried rice for $7 and sizable wursts (knack, brat and bock) at $7 ... More >>

4 Great Juice Shops in Los Angeles

There's a growing number of juice joints in Los Angeles, emphasizing the benefits of drinking to your health -- quite literally. Fresh juices have become so de rigueur these days that it's not uncommon to hear 'juice' used as a casual verb among Angelenos. And whereas we're not likely to ask anyone ... More >>

5 Best Places to Eat in the Downtown Arts District

This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts District. *6 Developments That Will Change the Downtown Arts District's Future*How the Arts District ... More >>

Happy Hour: Vertical Wine Bistro in Pasadena

Place: Vertical Wine Bistro, 70 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena; (626) 795-3999. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 4 p.m.-7 p.m. All day Sunday. Deals: Eleven food options include truffled mac-n-cheese, charcuterie and sliders, ranging from $5 to $10. Cocktails are $7 to $8, which include blueberry lemonade and Kir Ro ... More >>

Happy Hour: Hyperion Public in Silver Lake Happy Wings!

Place: Hyperion Public, 2538 Hyperion Ave., Los Angeles; (323) 761-6440. Hours: Monday to Thursday, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Deals: There is a range of drinks at this Silver Lake gastropub, including three beer-and-shot combos from $8 to $10. Tall glasses of Pabst Blue Ribbon at ... More >>

Happy Hour: Pour Haus Wine Bar in the Arts District

Place: Pour Haus Wine Bar, 1820 Industrial St., Los Angeles; (213) 327-0304. Hours: Daily 4 -7 p.m. Deals: All food and drink options are $5 each. Five drink options -- red, white, sparkling, beer, or soju mojito -- rotate, while six food selections, from bruschetta to roasted pee wee potatoes wit ... More >>

Happy Hour: Left Coast Wine Bar & Gallery in Glendale

Place: Left Coast Wine Bar & Gallery, 117 E. Harvard St., Glendale; (818) 507-7011. Hours: Daily 4 - 7 p.m. Deals: $15 wine flights (three 3-oz. pours of choice); $5 house red or white wine; $5 sangria; $4 draft beer (not including Chimay). There are four options for food from a cheese plate to g ... More >>

Happy Hour: Shin-Sen-Gumi Yakitori & Shabu Shabu in Monterey Park

Place: Shin-Sen-Gumi Yakitori & Shabu Shabu, 111 N. Atlantic Blvd., Monterey Park; (626) 943-7956. Hours: Beer special runs from Mon.-Thu., 6 p.m.-7 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m. For the rest of March, yakitori specials are available Mon.-Thu., 6 p.m.-11 p.m. In April, the specials will only b ... More >>

Happy Hour: Yxta Cocina Mexicana in the Arts District

Place: Yxta Cocina Mexicana: 601 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles; (213) 596-5579. Hours: Mon., 4 p.m.-9 p.m.; Tue.-Fri., 4 p.m.-7 p.m.; Sat., 5 p.m.-7 p.m. Deals: $3.50 bottled beer; $4 draft beer; $5 margaritas; $5-$7 appetizers Vibe: Yxta Cocina Mexicana is located on the corner of a strip mall, i ... More >>

Happy Hour: SiLO Vodka Bar in Downtown L.A.

Place: SiLO Vodka Bar: 221 W. 7th St., Los Angeles; (213) 221-7956. Hours: 4 p.m.-8 p.m. everyday. Deals: $5 well drinks; $4 house wines; $3 draft beer; $3-6 food. Vibe: SiLO Vodka Bar at happy hour belies its nighttime persona, shinier in its sleek design of darker wood paneling and glass orb in ... More >>

10 Best Restaurants for Brunch in Los Angeles

Brunch is one thing that's done well in Los Angeles, a town that's very well-versed in mashups -- Carmeggedons I and II, for starters -- that grab more attention than should be necessary. And while it may not be the favorite meal service of chefs, this internal struggle is not transparent when you'r ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Fallen Fruit of Del Aire: L.A.'s First Public Fruit Orchard

Members of the Fallen Fruit collective, city government, and Del Aire neighborhood took turns settling in a Long Beach Peach sapling into Del Aire Park soil on Saturday, Jan. 5, painting one more stroke to the edible art installation known as Fallen Fruit of Del Aire. The young tree joined 27 other ... More >>

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

7 Great Los Angeles Ethnic Markets

As significant as farmers markets are in reintroducing seasonality to our diet, it is the neighborhood market that regularly holds us down when times call for lingonberry syrup or injera bread. It may be too early to declare Los Angeles -- or anywhere for that matter -- post-racial, but in a city wi ... More >>

Flour Tea: A New Tea Shop in Pasadena

If Flour Tea seems like a hybrid of better Taiwanese tea joints and bakeries around San Gabriel Valley, it has everything to do with co-owners (and cousins) Nancy Ou and Johnson Wang whose collective résumé reads like a tea industry road map. Sitting on the corner of Cordova and Arroyo Parkway, ... More >>

10 Best Vegan-Friendly Restaurants in L.A.: Happy Earth Day

Earth Day is this Sunday, April 22, and regardless of where you stand on the dietary spectrum, consider curbing your carbon footprint with a meal free of animal by-products. Non-profit organization Environmental Working Group found that eating one less burger per week for a year equates to reducing ... More >>

Jenny Peng and the Golden Shrimp Tofu Dumpling

Flavor Garden's golden shrimp dumpling was so named for a reason no longer apparent at first glance. At ten to a plate for $6.99, they are plump with tofu, scallions, and fresh shrimp. Reference to ingots that dumplings have traditionally symbolized in Chinese culture notwithstanding, they appear li ... More >>

Kris Morningstar's Essential Kitchen Tools

The opening line of A Tale of Two Cities might as well have been a Dickensinian prophecy for the 21st century at-home cook for whom there is no better and yet more confusing time. You can build a giant cupcake to be topped by home-made ice cream, all paired with your own soda or beer that you've bre ... More >>

Mian Geda: Not Quite a Dumpling, Not Yet a Noodle

Against Northern Chinese noodles, mian geda may not measure to the knife cuts and the hand-pulled in unapologetic looks and name. Humble origin notwithstanding, mian geda is treated with more thought at JTYH Restaurant. They offer a hearty Shanxi interpretation in two different soups built from pork ... More >>