Amy Scattergood

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R.E.~, who took this shot of a slow pour of latte art at Silver Lake's newly opened Cafécito Organico. What you may need to be drinking after last night's St. Patrick's Day festivities. If you're still drinking green......

If you haven't heard of Ruth Bourdain, the Twitter mashup of food rock stars Ruth Reichl and Anthony Bourdain, you need to. It's possibly the funniest thing we've heard in weeks. Months. Longer. To get up to speed on what you've been missing, read the tumblr, the tweets, and today's......

This morning comes news that network television is joining the ever-expanding (like with our waistlines) genre of food reality TV. Reuters reports that CBS has ordered Beat the Chefs, with Tom Forman (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Find My Family). The pilot would be the first in the genre for the......

Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- In praise of the endangered restaurant critic. -- From the Department of Complaints, a funny complaint letter. With results. -- Marcel Vigneron to star in SyFy network reality show. -- 15 Worst Fast Food......

Pretty soon Los Angeles won't be the only major city to grade its restaurants like Nathaniel Hawthorne characters. On Tuesday, The New York City Board of Health voted to begin giving letter grades rating cleanliness to the city's more than 24,000 restaurants. Starting in July, cards supplied by the city,......

The fourth edition of LudoBites, Ludovic Lefebvre's traveling pop-up restaurant show, will begin a 2 month stint at Gram & Papa's in April. LudoBites 4.0 will run from April 8th to May 28th at the downtown restaurant, with Lefebvre serving his new dinner menu (still in the works) from Tuesdays......

This is a public service announcement. If you see a small fleet of VW microbuses, painted orange and looking alarmingly like oddly shaped moving wheels of cheddar cheese, on the streets of L.A. tomorrow, don't freak out. Tillamook, the Oregon-based cheese company, is having some fun. They're doing a "Loaf......

If you accidentally set your kitchen on fire the last time you baked cookies, or have been banned from cooking dinner by your family because they'd rather eat In-N-Out than risk consuming your lasagne, you may have a television gig in your future. Worst Cooks in America, the Food Network's......

First there was the food truck, now there's the food bus. (Maybe next Gordon Ramsay can relocate his empire into a fleet of RV's.) World Fare, the BUStaurant--a mobile restaurant in a double decker bus--debuts tomorrow, March 16th, after having done a few test runs over the weekend. Co-owner Travis......

At the rate he's going, chef Ludo Lefebvre (LudoBites) may never need to open his own restaurant: he can just guest chef at this friends' restaurants. After Akasha Richmond went to the fried chicken dinner that Lefebvre and Eric Greenspan recently put on at Greenspan's Melrose Avenue restaurant The Foundry--Richmond......