Market managers Laura Avery and Ted Galvan It's the season of chile roasts, even if you don't live in New Mexico, and if you didn't make it to Sante Fe you can head on over to the Santa Monica farmers market, where they're having southwest-style c...
Let's be honest: It's hard to get behind a purveyor of fancy tacos. This seeming contradiction goes against so many of tacos' sacred truths -- that they are cheap; that the best of them generally is made in modest circumstances; that there rarely, i...
Peppercorn steak "Would you care for a little ground Salmonella on your salad?" Food safety experts have been keeping a lid on a surprising source of food poisoning -- your spice cabinet, according to the New York Times. Pepper poses a particular...
Kanpachi ceviche at Flores This week we turn our reviewing eye to Flores, the New American restaurant that opened on Sawtelle in Little Osaka recently. You can hop on over to the food section and read the full review, or get a summary version belo...
Fried chicken at Tokyo Fried Chicken Co. Just when you thought the Southern restaurant trend had jumped the shark, someone comes up with a Southern-Japanese hybrid fried chicken joint and everything seems right with the world once more. Tokyo Frie...
The Onion, America's finest news source, celebrates its 25th birthday today. Congratulations! Founded in 1988 by two juniors at the University of Wisconsin in Madison -- it being an article of faith that most genius things are created in dorm rooms -...
raw chicken Why did the chicken cross the road? So you wouldn't give it a bath. Drexel University professors are on a mission to get people to stop washing their chicken. It is a commonly held illusion that washing raw chicken prior to cooking ...
McDonald's Today, employees at your local fast food establishment are going on strike to demand the right to unionize and to be paid something substantially more than the minimum wage. Because, Neil Cavuto, what was yesterday's summer job to suppo...
O'Henry peaches at Weiser Family Farms' stall The end of August is high season for stone fruit in Southern California, with peaches in particular loading the stalls of L.A. farmers markets. Peaches, pluots, plums and more peaches, including the p...
chef Evan Funke at Bucato The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. A chef puts his art on the plate, the white expanse of porcelain standing in for the blank field of the stretche...
Josiah Citrin (left) in the kitchen at Mlisse 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 Josiah Citrin, chef/owner of Mlisse in Santa Monica. ...
Whiskey Burger at State Social House Have you found yourself bemoaning the recent loss of Red Rock & Grill on the Sunset Strip? Probably not. Isla Cantina, maybe? No? Well they're both gone, having been shuttered by owner Robert Silverberg to mak...
Ice Cream Social night at Bittersweet Treats Danielle Keene has always had a fondness for retro. Back when she ran the dessert kitchen at Wilshire, she instituted Ice Cream Shoppe night. She often favors a '50s-era aesthetic at her Pasadena bakery...
Assorted Cookies at Diddy Riese Let's play a game. What can you buy for 35 cents in Los Angeles? Not the L.A. Times, not a first-class stamp -- maybe a gumball in one of those machines outside of Ralphs? Your options are pretty limited on this ...
Figs As it is with the process of naming most anything of significance (dogs, babies, planets), trying to figure out what to call your restaurant can be difficult. You can do as some pet owners do and be as broad as possible (i.e., for every cat n...
SaMo Wine Party One ticket will you buy unlimited samples of wines from such wineries as Justin Vineyards Cabernet at Monsoon Cafe. Ticket sales end two hours before the event starts. WHAT: SaMo Wine Party WHEN: Friday, Aug. 30, 8-11 p.m. WHERE: Mon...
It's good for you, it's going to kill you, it'll cure whatever ails you, it'll make you go insane. In the latest submission to the coffee conundrum catalog, a new study says that excessive coffee consumption might help men with prostate cancer, accor...
Most beer blogs these days have punny names about "pints" and "biers," often leaving out an entire food element that is indelibly connected to drinking. But here at Squid Ink, where we cover the new dawn of craft beer for a long-standing food blog, i...
Screenshot of Gratafy app Gratafy, a smartphone app designed to let you buy drinks or dinner for friends remotely, launched today in Los Angeles. The app originated in November in Seattle. L.A. is the second market for the app. The concept is f...
Elwood Reid It's easy to embrace FX's atmospheric new series The Bridge as a darkly compelling crime drama. But the part we love, the part that makes The Bridge feel so exotic, is how vividly it captures life on the U.S.-Mexico border. Set in the ...
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Let's be honest: It's hard to get behind a purveyor of fancy tacos. This seeming contradiction goes against so many of tacos' sacred truths — that they are cheap; that… More >>
Bucato Review: Evan Funke's Helms Bakery Restaurant Triumphs
Is there a bread in the world more abused than focaccia? Spongy, leaden, heavily oily versions plague everything from fast-food menus to high-end restaurant bread baskets. Yes, the world is… More >>

