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Samosa House
The lassi, a chilled yogurt drink born in the Punjab region of India, has been dubbed the world's oldest smoothie. Though it originated as a savory beverage -- a salted yogurt-milk with a few spices such as cumin -- its sweet counte...
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Salad at Alma
There are quite a few reasons, we imagine, why you'd want to use an online dating service where love for salad is an integral part of the matchmaking algorithm. Maybe you believe that someone's feelings toward kale are a strong indic...
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ramen at Tsujita Annex
Is it ramen weather? It is decidedly not, nor is it likely to be next weekend in Torrance, but you're just going to have to suck it up (literally, in this case) anyway, at least if you truly love ramen. Because next Saturday...
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Burger King's French Fry Burger
This is it, Burger King? This is what you're bringing to the (yellow plastic) table? While the other fast food giants are positively raking it in with inspired strokes of fast food mashup genius, while Carl's Jr. ma...
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Yesterday in The New York Times, restaurant critic Pete Wells made his case for doing away with the tipping system. He's hardly the first person to make this argument. In recent months, Slate has run articles about getting rid of the practice, as has...
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Honey Garlic Chicken
The Jewish holidays -- well, any holiday really -- require heavy-duty planning, cooking, coordinating and grocery shopping. To ease some Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (the holiday where Jews starve all day and binge all night) s...
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South End opening this month in Venice
With summer wrapping up, there's a new set of restaurants, food festivals and roasts to visit. But let's not forget the recently departed: Asuka in Westwood shuttered, Spumoni Italian Cafe & Pizzeria in Brent...
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The Big Jim Burger at JNJ Burger Shack
Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsuke...
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Greek-style gyros
15th Annual Los Angeles Greek Festival
There'll be a lineup of your favorite Greek foods at the annual festival, featuring grilled rack of lamb, chicken souvlaki skewers, grilled octopus, gyros, moussaka, spanakopita, Greek wine...
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One of the USDA's healthful new school lunches
It's back to school time, and that means those healthful new school lunches, rolled out to great fanfare by the Obama administration last fall ... are being pitched directly into the trash!
The waste...
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View from the lounge at Barsha Wines and Spirits
Three Bottles, One Shop is a series in which we take a peek into an L.A. wine shop and ask the owner to pick and describe three great bottles on offer. Have a shop you'd like to see featured? Email ...
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Sour beers in Belgium
Okay, so adjectives like "barnyard-y," "horse blanket" and "gym socks" might not sound like the most appetizing descriptives for a beverage, but when it comes to the acidic wonders of sour beer, they're all the rage.
For m...
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Ari Taymor at Alma
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, we check in with Ari Taymor, chef/owner of Alma.
Ari Taymor has had a crazy few weeks. After his re...
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If you've been going to Burning Man and subsisting on Gatorade and Clif bars, you've been doing it all wrong.
Held in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, since 1990, Burning Man began as a ragtag assembly of a few hundred artists, miscreants, hippies and py...
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Art's Chili Dogs
Last year, we took a look back at a 1972 Los Angeles Times article by the late celebrated food writer David Shaw on hot dogs, focusing on the places that are no longer around. Forty-one years on, six survive. For all the stereotyp...
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California's Keitt mangoes are real desert rats. They grow at Mecca in the Coachella Valley, where temperatures can top 120 degrees. But this doesn't bother the Keitts; they thrive in the blistering heat, bulking up to as much as two pounds apiece.
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Broccoli with leeks and manchego
Eating lots of broccoli may slow down the progression of arthritis or even prevent it altogether, according to a new study by British researchers.
Lab tests showed that a compound in broccoli, which is also found...
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Hot chicken at the Hart and the Hunter
If any food obsessive were to make a bucket list of regional American dishes she ought to try in this lifetime, Nashville hot chicken would certainly be an important entry. Hot chicken, and particularly the h...
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Editor's note: As many of you know, Bravo debuted a new show about the L.A. food scene recently. Since some of us spend our Sundays Thursdays watching sports instead of reality television (yes, even if it's about food; especially if it's about food),...
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Labor Day is around the corner, making it the last chance this season to take a proper vacation -- which in turn is maybe the best time to stay in town, given the less people and less traffic. It doesn't have to be extensive or too expensive, if you ...
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
