Amy Scattergood

It's Thomas Keller month in Los Angeles (and everywhere, really). The famed chef (The French Laundry, Per Se, Ad Hoc, Bouchon) is in town the next two weeks, to open Bouchon in Beverly Hills, which premiers November 18th, and to do a few book signings. His new Ad Hoc At......

Providence, chef-owner Michael Cimarusti's Michelin-starred seafood restaurant on Melrose, is hosting a dinner in partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific on November 18th. Edible Los Angeles will also be celebrating their fall issue at the event; diners will receive copies of that issue, as well as one free pass......

Want an homage of your favorite rock star? Try a cake depicting Iggy Pop, Dr. Dre or Debbie Harry--in chocolate. Baker, chocolatier and DJ (at Highland Park's Footsies) Kate Steffens specializes in rock n' roll cakes, with musicians depicted in tempered chocolate which she works into elaborate portraits. Your rock......

BlackboardEats.com, a free email newsletter and website, launched in Los Angeles about six weeks ago. The site, which was founded by former Yahoo! Food editor Maggie Nemser, is based out of Venice (Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Monica) and provides subscribers with discounts on meals, bonus freebies, and restaurant reviews......

Today's New York Times art section has a nice obituary of Orso, the West Hollywood restaurant that will close its doors on November 21st. "Like Morton's, Chasen's and the original Spago on Sunset Boulevard, Orso -- loved less for its food than for the gossip on its ficus-shaded patio --......

So, after many optimistic false starts, The Gorbals will officially reopen this Saturday night. Ilan Hall's downtown restaurant has finally been given the go-ahead, by both inspectors and publicists, and thus will begin serving this weekend. "All done, all legal, all everything," said Hall by phone this morning. Hall has......

LudoBites is back. Chef Ludovic Lefebvre (Top Chef Masters, Bastide, L'Orangerie), whose previous pop-up restaurant was held at BreadBar, is popping up again at the Royal/T in Culver City. Lefebvre will only be cooking at the Japanese-style cosplay café for 13 days in December, in what is the practical window......

Patina chef Tony Esnault likes soup. It's one of his favorite dishes to cook at home for his two young sons, William and Charles, and it was one of the dishes most emblematic of his childhood growing up in the Loire valley in France. Esnault serves a small bowlful of......