Amy Scattergood

Thomas Keller's Los Angeles Bouchon Bistro, which opens a week from tonight, will serve the same menu, more or less, as his other two Bouchons, in Yountville and Las Vegas. But Keller says that even though the menu has stayed pretty much the same, the space has evolved with each......

What would you eat for your last meal? How about if you were on death row? And would you get it? That's the question that Slate explored yesterday. It's a very American question, isn't it? Equally All-American were some of Slate's findings. That you can ask for anything you want,......

Can you wage war over chocolate? Sure you can. Just ask the Aztecs. But it seems kind of funny to have candy companies launch hostile takeovers of each other, as if a lunchroom battle had suddenly turned very ugly. But that's just what's been happening with Cadbury, the 185 year-old......

When Grace Restaurant closes and relocates, late next year, in St. Vibiana's rectory downtown, it will be after some pretty extensive work has been done to the space. The restaurant will occupy two floors of the the 1933 rectory, underneath Cardinal Mahoney's old suite (now a bridal suite) and a......

Thomas Keller is a busy man right now, between opening his new Bouchon Bistro (the third) in Beverly Hills, going on a national book tour for his new cookbook (the fourth), Ad Hoc At Home, and running what can be described as a small empire. It's a very organized empire......

EAT: Los Angeles, the locally published guide to food in this town, written by a cadre of local foodies, will come out with its 2010 edition on December 1st. The new edition is 56 pages longer than last year's, with 2 new chapters: Drink + Eat, which includes wine bars,......

The third La Bottega Marino officially opened its doors Saturday morning, on a busy section of Santa Monica in Beverly Hills. The previous two Bottegas, from brothers Salvatore and Mario Marino, are in Santa Monica, next to Sal Marino's white-tablecloth restaurant Il Grano, and in Larchmont. This incarnation is decidedly......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "My friend called me distraught. 'I just ate Iggy!'" Straight Outta Chocolate's Rock N' Roll Cakes: Joy Division & Iggy Pop, In Chocolate. "Cooking for me is a game. My life isn't boring, trust me!" LudoBites......

It's time for another installment of Staff Meals Today, where we find out what ten different restaurants around town are serving their staffs. Staff meals are interesting, a kind of culinary voyeurism, a window into the inner mechanism of a restaurant. Do they tell you anything about that kitchen? Maybe,......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of a bowlful of green curry mussels, comes to you courtesy of photographer My Last Bite. Where's the bowl from? As if you have to ask. Jitlada. Yes, Suthiporn Sungkamee and Jazz Singsanong's Thai restaurant, in Hollywood, is open for lunch......