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The search for America's next top bikini-clad waitress is on. The Hooters bus has hit the road to search for its 2013 calendar girls. Its mission: "To provide our customers with something beautiful to look at every single day of the year! We provide ...
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Flan with vanilla and citrus at Tres, SLS Hotel
Tacos, tequila and one more dish should be an ingredient for a proper Cinco de Mayo feast. On menus from Highland Park's My Taco to downtown's Border Grill to Santa Monica's El Cholo to almost every ...
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Star Wars cookies
If you want to amuse yourself, try calling Williams-Sonoma to ask what they're doing for Star Wars Day. You can imagine a nicely coiffed salesperson on the other end of the line, not completely understanding the question: "Star ...
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Tom Bergin's, Interior
Tom Bergin's is back. Some folks were worried the 76-year-old Irish pub's eight-month renovation might have sent Bergin's tumbling from grace. A few might have imagined in their bleakest moments that the doors would swing ...
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Drinko de Mayo
Let's face it, Mexico isn't exactly a major player in the current craft beer revolution. But that doesn't mean that its long tradition of easy-drinking, European-style lagers is something to be overlooked. Sure, the cerveza market i...
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Miss B at Stuff I Eat
If vegan and animal rights activists really want to change the way the majority of people eat, they might want to forget those PETA protests where half-naked women dress like tigers and sit in cages all day or those really de...
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Large-leaf basil from Tutti Frutti Farms at the Hollywood market
The big news on the tables this week was the arrival of not one but two favored stone fruits -- Spring Snow white peaches from Boujikian Farms at the Hollywood market on Sunday and t...
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Chef Govind Armstrong in the Post & Beam garden
Looking to get dirty this weekend? Baldwin Hill's Post & Beam is launching the first of its summer series of Gardening Club workshops this weekend with help from horticulturalist Geri Miller and head...
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With the exception of the Kerala-style dishes at Mayura, most of the Indian restaurants clustered along Culver City's Venice Boulevard focus on the same vegetarian-centric, vaguely Southern Indian style of cooking. This is far from a bad thing -- can...
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mole at Rocio's Mole de los Dioses
Every year, we read articles revealing the true origins of Cinco de Mayo. Nope, not Mexican Independence Day, which happens Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo commemorates a minor battle in the state of Puebla in 1862 where...
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Ashton Kutcher
A popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher in "brownface" was launched, skewered and pulled in less than 24 hours. The new $1.5 million ad campaign showed Kutcher as four characters -- among them a fictional 39-year-old Bollywood actor ...
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Chego's business card
"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws," Douglas Adams wrote in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. To that short list of exceptions, we ad...
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glasses of red wine
What magic potion may improve the health of those on a high-fat diet and slow down the aging process? It's nothing new -- it's that same stuff Louis Pasteur called "the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages." Even the B...
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If you're a food writer, or wish to become one, you might be writing a pithy piece about tonkotsu ramen or how to cook artichokes as we speak. But if you're having an existential crisis or just, well, thinking about it, you might want to ask ...
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Flour + Tea breads and pastries
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 rsum reads ...
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What do to in the intervening days, hours, minutes? Well, you could enjoy foie in all its many iterations at various local restaurants. You could protest the ban, which as you can see goes into effect July 1, 2012. You could camp out at the gates of ...
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Chin-Up at the Varnish
As the Varnish does not open until later this evening, you have a few hours to get some lucid reading accomplished. And if you would like to read about what you may be presented with at that estimable downtown bar, you might...
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The Joy Website
Sure, we could interpret The Joy of Cooking's new website (!) as yet another sign of the cookbook publishing industry's demise, a near-certain Armageddon of the printed recipe word. If a book that has been in print continuously sin...
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The Classic Chicago
Are you familiar with Hollywood Pies, the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza operation that operates in semi-secrecy? We were big fans when we got our first taste late last year outside a nondescript building west of downtown -- a ...
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Oden with daikon and konjac at Morinoya
If you get tired of American comfort food, you might consider comfort food from Japan -- by which we do not mean, at least at the moment, ramen and curry rice. One of the most comforting of Japanese comfort ...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
