Amy Scattergood

If you spend any time at The Bazaar, José Andrés' restaurant in the SLS Hotel, you will be impressed with the smoke-and-mirrors, fun-house motif -- Monty Python, maybe, if they'd been born Spanish -- that includes not only the decor but the playful food. Nitrogen clouds. Food in tin cans......

In yesterday's first part of our conversation with José Andrés, the chef sat down to chat about the Spanish pantry (his, ours), and cooking with Ferrán Adriá, which is where we left off. Andrés, whose La Cienega restaurant The Bazaar opened in the SLS hotel in 2008, spends plenty of......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of a citrus stand at the new Yamashiro Garden Market in Hollywood, comes to you courtesy of photographer R.E.~. Consider it an embodiment of the best of Los Angeles. Recently picked oranges. Farmers markets in odd places -- like the grounds of an historic......

Waterloo & City, the new gastropub from Brendan Collins and Carlos Tomazos, is set to open in three weeks, wrote Collins in a text message yesterday. The gastropub, which has been under construction for some months now, is in the old Crest House ("the layout is intact; we've just tarted......

Nate Appleman, 2009 James Beard Foundation Award Rising Star Chef winner, former The Next Iron Chef contestant, author of the marvelous A16: Food + Wine cookbook, and chef at Pulino's Bar and Pizzeria in the Bowery, was arrested last Wednesday afternoon in New York City's East Village. For carrying a......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. -- Calgary hit by a wave......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- An interview with Shut Up, Foodies, a new satirical food blog. (More on this one later.) -- Walmart's exclusive Ben & Jerry's flavor: flourless chocolate cake ice cream. -- Calgary hit by a wave......

If sipping a macchiato or an espresso is just too time consuming, or if you've got a thing not just for ammunition but for anything that looks like it, or if you've seen Blow one too many times, then Le Whif may be just the thing for you. It's coffee......