Amy Scattergood

Buttermilk Truck launches the evening of November 11th at The Brig in Venice (via LAist). The Grilled Cheese Truck, which launched last week, just posted this week's schedule on their website. Today, Brentwood. Tomorrow, on KTLA. Flying Pig Truck, which hit the streets in mid-October, is on Cahuenga for lunch......

In the first part of our interview with new Patina chef Tony Esnault, we learned that the Frenchman was recommended for his current job by Alain Ducasse, with whom he'd cooked for a number of years. It took Patina founder and owner Joachim Splichal nearly a year to find the......

Maybe U.S. Customs agents don't frequent Chung King or Bu San or Chang's Garden for the purpose of ordering sea cucumber quite as much as some restaurant critics do. If they did, perhaps they may have been more understanding on Sunday, when agents seized 300 pounds of the cucumbers, a......

For some months now, Evan Kleiman has been baking pies--and baking pies and baking pies--as part of her Pie-A-Day project for KCRW. Now that it's November, Kleiman is nearing the end of her pastry marathon. As the culminating event, KCRW will host a Good Food Pie Contest on Saturday, November......

When last we checked in with Eric Greenspan, chef-owner of The Foundry on Melrose and the first chef (and only Los Angeles contestant) to be eliminated in The Next Iron Chef, there were seven contestants. Now there are four (imagine an Agatha Christie story, in a locked kitchen). Last week,......

You knew it was only a matter of time before The New Yorker profiled Jonathan Gold, and next week Dana Goodyear's terrific story, The Scavenger, hits the newsstands. Read an excerpt of Goodyear's profile on the New Yorker website, or wait for the print edition. (Don't even try to read......

If you're the sort of person who's beaten a path to Yountville the last few years, to visit Thomas Keller's troika of restaurants, The French Laundry, Bouchon and Ad Hoc, you can start saving on gas money soon. Keller's Los Angeles incarnation of Bouchon finally opens its doors on November......

After searching for nearly a year to find the right chef to helm Patina, his downtown flagship restaurant, Joachim Splichal appointed Tony Esnault to the position just over a month ago. The 38 year-old Frenchman is from Saumur, in the Loire Valley, and worked with Alain Ducasse for much of......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "It was horrible. Even a shot of sake and a glass of beer didn' remove the taste." Q & A With David Myers: Business As Usual At Sona + Myers' Worst Meal Ever. "It is spicy,......

Tomorrow The Hungry Cat goes all South Pacific for Halloween, with a special Tiki holiday menu. The folks at David Lentz' Hollywood restaurant (he also has a Hungry Cat in Santa Barbara), justly famous for its cocktails, will be mixing Mai Tais and White Zombies for the occasion. For dinner......