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A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Happy National Pancake Day: Where to Eat Pancakes for Every Meal of the Day Free Pancakes at IHOP!

Hooray for National Pancake Day. Sure, you can line up for a free short stack all day until 10:00 p.m. at any of the nearly two dozen IHOP locations around L.A., or you can batter up for these less-traditional pancake stacks at the following non-chain restaurants. We've got each meal of the day pick ... More >>

Your 3,000 Calorie Dinner: Group Names Highest Calorie Chain Restaurant Meals

The Center For Science In The Public Interest has named it's "Xtreme Eating 2013" winners, if winner is an accurate word for a business you're publicly shaming for promoting obesity. Each year, the group focuses on the most calorific dishes served in America's chain restaurants, as part of its push ... More >>

Why Does Everyone in L.A. Drive Drunk All the Time?

Car culture was the last element I embraced in my new life as an Angeleno. The first few months I lived here, filling my gas tank made me physically ill. The cost! The fossil fuels! The hours spent in traffic! I may have cried about it once or twice, alone in my sad sublet behind one of Silver Lake' ... More >>

Read This Now: The Paris Review on Los Feliz' House of Pies

House of Pies, located on the corner of Franklin and Vermont in Los Feliz, is one of those places that catches your eye for a second on the drive past -- the indeterminately retro style of architecture, the old-school diner facade and, of course, the promise of fresh pie. For many locals, House o ... More >>

Free Pancakes at IHOP - Today

It's not just breakfast all day, it's free breakfast all day today at IHOP, which is offering a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes to each guest from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m in honor of National Pancake Day. In return, diners will be asked to make a voluntary donation to support the Children's Mira ... More >>

50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

Pancakes & Booze Showcases Underground Art in a Downtown Warehouse

Nanette GonzalesBreakfast for dinner​Also check out our slideshow by Nanette Gonzales on The Pancakes and Booze Art Show Some gallery owners organizing a show might draw inspiration from their college degrees in art history. But when Tom Kirlin curated his first art show, he was inspired by co ... More >>

A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

A Drinking Game at Molly Malone's: Actors Perform Live Readings of Classic Movies. While Drinking. Chaos Ensues.

Simone PazBrett Schlank, left, Natalie Lynch and & Tara Jayn, producers of A Drinking Game​Never let it be said that the actors in A Drinking Game refused to suffer for their craft. A live reading of classic movies turned interactive drinking game, the monthly production features actors sit ... More >>

Xtreme Eating Awards Announced: Top 8 Worst Things To Eat

Center for Science in the Public InterestThe Cheesecake Factory Farmhouse Cheeseburger​ This year's winners of the Xtreme Eating Awards have been named, just in time for us all to continue massively overeating. The so-called "dishonorees," as if we needed more clues as to the point of this, we ... More >>

19 Chain Restaurants Join Initiative to Offer Healthier Kids' Meals

Flickr/fdecomite​ Nineteen restaurant chains, including Burger King and IHOP, have agreed to participate in a restaurant industry effort to promote healthier meals for children, Reuters reports. Conceived of by the National Restaurant Association, the voluntary program will focus on boosting ... More >>

The Fall and Rise of the House of Pies Send Us Your Photos of Surviving House of Pies Buildings

If you've given a thought to the House of Pies, the longtime coffee shop and restaurant at the corner of Vermont and Franklin in Los Feliz, chances are its either been in contemplation of a piece of pie or noticing the unusual architecture. There was a short period when the distinctive, angular, cot ... More >>

Derrick Caracter, L.A. Lakers Rookie, Arrested For Pushing IHOP Cashier, Drunken Behavior, During Playoff Road Trip

New Orleans policeDerrick Caracter.​Lakers teammates are forgiven for a little pushing and shoving on-court. The game gets physical sometimes. But police in New Orleans, where the Lakers played the Hornets and are tied 2-2 in a Western Conference playoff series, say rookie reserve forward Dar ... More >>

Lakers Rookie Arrested at New Orleans IHOP

Flickr user bridgetdsLakers rookie Derrick Caracter, chatting with forward Ron Artest​With the NBA Playoffs underway, things haven't exactly gone according to plan for the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. They've split their first four games with the plucky New Orleans Hornets, and now n ... More >>

Roy Choi's "Modern Picnic"

A-Frame captures Asian-American flavor

Huge Tree Bakery

For You Tiao, Niu Ruo Shao Bing and all good things Chinese

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/15-11/19

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "As you might have expected, A-Frame, in what looks like an old IHOP tricked out with enough pine and track lighting to make it resemble a ski chalet, is pretty different from the legion of gastropubs." First Bite: Take the A ... More >>

Take the A-Frame

Roy Choi turns toward Hawaii

First Bite: Take the A-Frame, or Roy Choi Turns Toward Hawaii

​Where Roy Choi goes, people will follow -- this has been well-established. Because if the legions of the hungry are willing to follow his Kogi trucks when they alight in deserted motel parking lots or alongside Orange County topless clubs, it stands to reason that they will go where they migh ... More >>

Roy Choi's A-frame Opens in Culver City

N. GalutenBaby back ribs: air-dried and hoisin chile glazed, with sesame​ The Roi Choi empire continues to expand. The Kogi mastermind, who also opened Chego back in April, debuted his newest venture last week, A-frame. The hyper-casual Culver City restaurant took over a former International H ... More >>

IHOP Sues the Int'l House of Prayer Over Trademark Infringement

Christie BishopThe Battle of the IHOPS​ Forget the separation of church and state; there's about to be a throwdown so big and messy that even Bobby Flay won't want to be involved. The International House of Pancakes (allegedly the first official IHOP) is suing the International House of Praye ... More >>

America's 15 Favorite Chain Restaurants: We ♥ The Cheesecake Factory

Cheesecake FactoryLos Angeles Cheesecake Factory locations​ Want to know how America really eats? I guess track where NBA players go after a game. Nation's Restaurant News recently published a list of our 15 favorite casual and family restaurant chains, and The Cheesecake Factory, reportedly a ... More >>

WHO IS THIS ALAN FURST?

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Cooking oysters with lemon air and egg 63 with Marcel Vigneron (and Ludo) at Sur la Table. (foodshethought) -- Love your food truck enough to get the name tattooed on your arm? Kogi's Roy Choi does. [Deep End Dining] -- Chin-Ma-Ya in Little Tokyo, or where to go if the line at Daikokuya is too ... More >>

It's A Family Affair: Couple Brings Kids Along On Alleged Robbery Spree

CHPFile photo.​We've heard of families that do everything together, but this is ridiculous. Los Angeles police report that a couple took a 6- and 4-year-old along for an alleged, early morning robbery spree in the San Fernando Valley Monday. The suspects hit a Rite Aid at 13333 Riverside Driv ... More >>

The Fuzzy Underground: A Clandestine Meeting With Ferrets Anonymous

Hundreds of thousands of illegal ferrets allegedly hiding out in California

GO LA: Lewis Black, German Cinema, Sheryl Crow for the Congo, and more

Where to go in L.A., February 13-19

Bad Rap: How Aspiring Hip-hop Star Herbie Gonzalez Got Pegged as the Manhattan Beach Housekeeper Murderer

Anatomy of a false confession

Farce in Carson

A corrupt Los Angeles suburb tries for a comeback - and lands on YouTube

HE-E-E-E-RE’S FUNNY!

Going to a comedy club is risky business — but fear not, we’re there for you

Feral Child

Process is born

The New Urban Frontier: A User’s Guide

The Short Fake Life of Charles Hampton

Is the Saint of South L.A. for Real?

Jeffrey Anderson investigates the turbulent world of L.A.'s flagship refugee agency and its mysterious director, Nikki Tesfai

American Idolatry

Eat, Like, a Pig

Guilt Trip

The transformation of Kathleen Ann Soliah into Sara Jane Olson

Leaf Blowers

New fiction from T.C. Boyle, first fiction from Tod Goldberg, City in Fiction from David Fine

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

And other treats from India (dosas may vary)

Early Morning Sunset Smells

Suzy Beal sniffs the boulevard from downtown to the 405, then gives up.

Hear Him Roar

Gerald Wilson, king of swing