Amy Scattergood

Broadway Deli, which Bruce Marder and Marvin Zeidler opened in 1990 on the Santa Monica promenade, closed its doors for the last time on Monday. Santa Monica Daily Press reports that the lease had expired, the rent had tripled, and Marder and Zeidler were threatened with a lawsuit if they......

Sometimes Los Angeles seems like a very small town. When you go to the farmers markets. When you walk into a restaurant kitchen to say hi to one chef and run into another one you'd lost track of, however briefly. Such was the case at Firefly in Studio City yesterday,......

For those of you who only head over to the San Fernando Valley when Ludo Lefebvre pops up on that side of the hill, there is another reason to actually go to Sherman Oaks. Open now for only six days, Sweet Butter Kitchen on Ventura Boulevard -- that's a few......

As the culinary experiment of Test Kitchen winds down, the chef musical chairs act continues. Tonight and tomorrow night, November 30th and December 1st, Walter Manzke (Church & State, Bastide, ____ ) will be cooking Spanish tapas with Perfecto Rocher (the Blvd, Manresa). Manzke describes the menu as "all pretty......

Updated: Yesterday evening the Senate passed the Food Safety Bill, otherwise known as the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, or S.510. The bill passed on a 73-25 vote. It now goes to the House, which is widely expected to pass it, and then to President Obama. As The Atlantic reported......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer Gurl in LA, a lovely shot of Tofutti Oreo and Thai Tea gelato at Scoops. Because it's winter, if you can call it that here in L.A., and thus time to up our ice cream consumption. If you have......

Every year, it seems, Butterball does more than produce turkeys. The company also mans the Turkey Talk-Line, a hotline for those with holiday turkey issues. Reuters, bless them, recently ran a story called "Are you smarter than your turkey?" -- in which they called up the hotline to learn some......

-- Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79. -- Pet Pantry: a food bank for the four-footed. -- The new front in the culture wars: food. -- A French farmer is fined for feeding his ducks pot. No, he wasn't force-feeding them; it was apparently a deworming......

-- Le Van Ba, Founder of Lee's Sandwiches, Dies At 79. -- Pet Pantry: a food bank for the four-footed. -- The new front in the culture wars: food. -- A French farmer is fined for feeding his ducks pot. No, he wasn't force-feeding them; it was apparently a deworming......