Amy Scattergood

City Bean Coffee, the Los Angeles coffee company that Sol Salzer began in 1992 as a small retail shop in Westwood Village, last Monday quietly opened the doors of its newly renovated micro-roastery on Jefferson Boulevard. The location, previously home to a cabinet maker, now houses City Bean's restored 1926......

Caché restaurant has closed, only a year after it opened in Santa Monica, in the space that formerly housed Arnold Schwarzenegger's beerhaus Schatzi. Josiah Citrin (Mélisse), who had consulted on the menu but was not a partner, said that the restaurant closed on Tuesday, the same day that he was......

As J. Patrick Coolican reports in the Weekly's news blog, this afternoon a City Council committee heard testimony on how exactly to regulate the food trucks that have set off a minor food fight along Wilshire Boulevard and other food-truck-heavy areas. Councilmen Tom LaBonge and others discussed, among other issues,......

Thanks to a tweet from @marionnestle (that would be Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University, author of What to Eat and other books, and of the Food Politics blog, to those who don't......

If you've been wandering around Pasadena in an decaffeinated haze for the last few days, looking for Jones Coffee Roasters and finding instead an empty roaster-shaped hole where your coffeehouse used to be, don't panic: Jones has not closed, but simply moved down the street. Last Friday the business, which......

Want to know how America really eats? I guess track where NBA players go after a game. Nation's Restaurant News recently published a list of our 15 favorite casual and family restaurant chains, and The Cheesecake Factory, reportedly a favorite of many Lakers players, topped the list. Coming in at......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer djjewelz, who took the beautiful shot, of Julian Cox's cocktail laboratory at Rivera, on August 6th using a Canon PowerShot S90. Djjewelz is not the only one who has been frequenting John Sedlar's downtown restaurant, which was the......

It's Monday, the grudging beginning of another work week, and the end of a weekend perhaps spent barbecuing or, if you were anywhere in the vicinity of Koreatown, consuming plenty of what others threw on the grill at the Korean BBQ Cook-Off, called, appropriately enough, "Let's Meat." So if you......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Is there caramel soufflé for dessert? There is always caramel soufflé for dessert." First Bite: There Will Always Be a Caramel Soufflé, or Ludobites 5.0 and Beyond. "As of 10 a.m. today, Old Town shoppers, itinerant......

Sprouts Farmers Market, the Phoenix-based chain of supermarkets, opened another store in Pasadena this past Wednesday. Sprouts is owned by the Boney family, who owned the Henry's Marketplace chain before it was sold to Wild Oats (now owned by Whole Foods) in 1999. If you're keeping track on your grocery......