Amy Scattergood

Samir Mohajer's menu at his Cabbage Patch restaurants -- the original in Beverly Hills, a second in Playa Vista, and a third forthcoming downtown -- is, as he's the first to admit, rather wholesome. (Read our recent interview with the chef.) Often organic, locally sourced, hauled back from area farmers......

Happy Birthday, Mr. President. President Obama turns 49 years old today (CNN Developing News: "I have a more gray hair"), and is celebrating the event by, well, working. According to the White House, he will finish his day by heading to Chicago in the late afternoon for a dinner outing......

As of 10 a.m. today, Old Town shoppers, itinerant off-duty baristas, embedded Pasadena food writers and refugees from the Rose Bowl now have a place to order an excellent macchiato, on Colorado Boulevard. Intelligentsia Coffee, Doug Zell's Chicago-based micro-empire, opened its third Los Angeles location today in Pasadena. It's a......

"Reservations to LudoBites are the summer's must-have accessory in this restaurant-mad city," writes restaurant critic Sam Sifton in today's New York Times, "written about on Twitter and blogs and heralded in the pages of LA Weekly, where the critic Jonathan Gold has lavished praise on it. But they are not......

Ammo's Sunday Roast dinners mean different things to different people: you might go for chef Daniel Mattern's good food, for the 10 year-old restaurant's casual setting, for a good value -- usually three courses for $32 -- or for pastry chef Roxana Jullapat's remarkable desserts. You might also go for......

Samir Mohajer likes cabbage. The chef, who is getting ready to open his third Cabbage Patch this September, not only named his restaurants after the vegetable (and the dance, not the doll; read our recent interview with the chef on this and other issues), but he has, of course, plenty......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Joe Fabrocini is a scholar of the hot dog, an expert on the dozens of traditions that make up the American frankfurter diaspora." First Bite: More Room For the Ripper -- A New and Improved Fab......

In the first part of our interview with Samir Mohajer, who is opening his third Cabbage Patch in, hopefully, September, the chef gave us a little backstory on his career and his rapidly multiplying restaurants. In this second part, Mohajer tells us more about the new place, the economic circumstances......

Samir Mohajer had his hands on the copper pots of not a few notable Los Angeles restaurants -- Axe, Rustic Canyon Wine Bar and Seasonal Kitchen, The Little Door, Golden State -- before he opened his own place, Cabbage Patch, early last year in Beverly Hills. Born in Iran, Mohajer......