Amy Scattergood

Mondette reports that Minestraio has closed. The restaurant, which was located in the Orlando Hotel on 3rd Street and was La Terza in a previous incarnation, was owned and run by Gino Angelini (Angelini Osteria). Minestraio, a casual trattoria focusing on handmade pasta, opened almost exactly two years ago. Gino's......

-- Celebrate Pi Day (3/14) with a spherical pie. -- Dude, Those Candied Walnuts Go Great at a Kegger, or the movement of trained chefs to frat houses. -- Suzanne Goin Hosts New York Chef Gabrielle Hamilton For Book-Signing Dinner, or more reasons to go to Lucques. The event is......

Welcome to our latest column, in which we tell you where Jon Cryer (who doesn't seem to be getting enough press these days, maybe because he's not high) and Emilio Estevez (see previous comment) and Jesse Eisenberg and Reese Witherspoon have been seen eating, or not eating, depending. Just kidding......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "You're the porteño with the Ph.D. in literature. You tell me." Ask Mr. Gold: In Search of Salteñas, Revisited. "And the drink is named The Bitter End 'because we all know this isn't going to be......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer munchabout, who took the shot, of a barista making a cortado at Cognoscenti Coffee in Atwater Village, on a Canon EOS 40D. Of which particular drink, read more here. And, of course, if you have any brilliant shots of......

Instead of nodding your head in agreement, yelling obscenities -- or throwing your lunch at your computer screen, which is problematic at best -- the Reader Comment option on this and other blogs is a very useful way to weigh in on the conversation. This reader comment, from Arby Trent......

Bouchon Beverly Hills has an opening for a chef de partie (that's the French kitchen brigade name for a line cook or station chef). To quote the job listing, which was posted on the Thomas Keller Restaurant Group website on March 1st: This is a great opportunity for a recent......

What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of your content comes......