Amy Scattergood

If you were one of the thousands of ramen-lovers who filled Santa Anita Park over this past weekend, on March 29-30, for the 2014 Ramen Yokocho fest, congratulations are in order. Organizers predicted 30,000 people at the Arcadia racetrack on Saturday and Sunday for the second such festival, which brought fourteen ramen shops from......

If you often find yourself dreaming of Kris Yenbamroong's plates of pork larb and curried noodles, his happily spicy nuoc mam chicken wings and catfish tamales, his - oh, you get the idea. It's not like you haven't memorized the menu. Because Yenbamroong's Night + Market serves the kind of stuff......

If you're going to have an epiphany at a Los Angeles restaurant, the gorgeous open dining rooms at A.O.C. and Lucques are likely candidates. There's the light flickering from the fireplaces, the open sky above the patios, the sudden moments of culinary inspiration on the plates. But if you order a......

One of the many beautiful things about living in the same city as UCLA is that, every spring in recent years, some of the most amazing food people show up on the campus to participate in Professor Amy Rowat's Science and Food Series  In 2012, it was David Chang and Rene......

Sometimes its easy to forget the profound influence Hans Röckenwagner has had on the Los Angeles dining scene. If you only know the chef and restaurateur from his justly famous pretzels, his farmers market bakery booths or his small, homey wood-and-orange-decorated shops in Santa Monica and Venice, you might be appreciative,......

If your dreams often take place in Shinagawa ramen joints, elbows down on a tiny counter, noodles slurped alongside drunk companions seated under the low clouds coming off vats of tonkotsu broth, then you'll be overjoyed to know that Ramen Yokocho - billed as the largest ramen festival in the U.S. -......

The James Beard Foundation announced their 2014 award nominees this morning, in a livestream from Chicago. (Fancy stuff! One wonders what Beard himself, a Portland, Ore., native who started his career in the theatre and was one of the pioneers of food on television, would have thought about that one.) The award......

Why some so-called street food grabs a city's attention and not others is a mystery for the anthropologists - or maybe the folks at Lucky Peach. There are, thank God, tacos and fruit carts on repeating corners in L.A. But it remains bafflingly difficult to find good omusubi, also called......

If you haven't started planning for this coming weekend's eating, it's not too late to do so. Which could mean scheduling a juice fast. Or rewiring your Sunday commitments. Or actually buying tickets if you've somehow forgotten that on Sunday, March 9, from noon to 5 p.m. this esteemed publication will......