Amy Scattergood

Slicing the brisket at Horse Thief; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Come to Artopia, Stay For the Food and Booze

If you're still not sure what you're doing on the evening of May 15, maybe consider coming downtown to Grand Central Market for LA Weekly's Artopia, a celebration of L.A.'s art scene and the publication of our annual People issue. Because not only will there be art, music, food and booze, but many......
Donald Wressell and his giant cake; Credit: Vanessa Stump

A Chocolate Cake for 15,000 People Comes to Rodeo Drive

If you happened to walk down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills at 6 a.m. last Sunday, you'd have seen something far more interesting than the crowds that filled the streets later that day for the city's centennial party. Because just after dawn, a group of extraordinarily gifted pastry chefs gathered......
The finished cake; Credit: Amy Scattergood

A Birthday Cake For 15,000

Built for Beverly Hills' centennial party on April, 27, Guittard executive pastry chef Donald Wressell's cake (a strikingly faithful replica of the Bev...
Tacolandia 2014

Tacolandia Tickets Now on Sale to the Public!

If you haven't already done so, it's time to get tickets to this year's Tacolandia. Because, after a few days of pre-sales, tickets will be available to us all as of 10 a.m. this morning. This is the second annual Tacolandia, to be held this year on Saturday, June 28 from 3-7 p.m......
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Dunkin' Donuts to Open 20 Shops in SFV and OC

Watch out, Intelligentsia and The Donut Man. Dunkin' Donuts is coming to Los Angeles. The Massachussetts-based company, which was founded in 1950 in Quincy, Mass., has announced that they will open 20 new shops in the San Fernando Valley and Orange County over the next several years. The ten Dunkin'......
Tacolandia 2014

Tacolandia Tickets Now On Sale

Get out your gadgets: Tickets to this year's Tacolandia are now on sale. Or, more accurately, as of 10 a.m. this morning, April 22, you can access presale tickets and buy them before they go on sale to the public on Friday. Because you can't do anything these days without......
Chinese ramen at Lukshon; Credit: A. Scattergood

Chinese Ramen: Reverse Ramen Engineering at Lukshon

If the 30,000 people who showed up a few weeks ago to wait, in cases, for an hour and a half for a single bowl of ramen - imagine Oliver Twist crossed with Beat Takeshi - are any indication, Los Angeles is still in the midst of a ramen renaissance......
Rivera's tequila cart; Credit: A. Scattergood

John Sedlar Puts Meals on Wheels (and Carts and Trays) at Rivera

John Sedlar's cooking has always been kind of a moving target. From his early days bringing the Southwestern cuisine he grew up with in New Mexico to Los Angeles with his restaurants St. Estephe, Bikini and Abiquiu, through his work at his top-rated downtown restaurant Rivera, he's been playing with cuisines and......