Amy Scattergood

Ice cream lovers now have another quadrant of town to frequent, one that's probably a bit more on the beaten path than, say, northern Altadena (see: Bulgarini). Specifically, Burbank, where Quenelle opened on Tuesday. Quenelle is a small, very charming ice cream and pastry shop brought to you by John......

If you're a fan of noodles -- as most of us have been since the age of maybe four -- then Los Angeles is a pretty great place to eat. Specifically, noodles of the non-European variety: ramen, dan dan mien, udon, tsukemen. Here's a visual aid to some of the......

If you've ever been depressed, and I mean truly depressed, you'll know how serious an issue it can be. Therapy can help. So can dessert. And so can your friends, among whom many of us number professional bakers. To this happy end, there is the Depressed Bake Shop, a pop-up......

Oh, for the glory days of arranged marriage, matchmakers (see: Fiddler on the Roof), and drunk hook-ups in bars and grad school seminars. In the modern era of online dating, we instead have things like Match.com (5 countries! 8 languages! 5 continents!) and eHarmony, enormous businesses that seem less like......

Most pastry kitchens are tiny. A convection oven; a proofing rack; a giant Hobart mixer, looking like a squat, gunmetal-gray R2-D2; a long prep table (in marble for chocolate, if you're lucky) for tarts or laminated dough or maybe a few plated desserts; more speed racks, stacked high to make......

Check out our annual restaurant issue, which this year celebrates desserts, out this Thursday, August 8. A great dish can define a chef or a restaurant, can install itself in the collective consciousness or trigger happy memories (see: Proust, madeleines) in a way that transcends the meal itself. Consider your......

Pasadena is a pretty good place to live if you're a farmers market junkie: The Saturday morning market at Victory Park is terrific, and the Thursday evening market in South Pasadena is probably the best evening market in Los Angeles. As of yesterday, things got even better, with the opening......

Bucato, Evan Funke's long-awaited temple to pigs, porchetta, pasta and rustic Italian cuisine, opened last night in the Helms Bakery complex. For those of you with Los Angeles food board games, that would be right across the walkway from Lukshon, a few doors down from both Father's Office and the......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mien, cups of boba and......

The new Nutella cookbook coming out next month from the Ferrero company is, well, not a pastry book you'd confuse with something from Jacques Torres or Pierre Hermé. It looks more like one of those puffy books your kids used to read in the bathtub. Of course, this is not......