Amy Scattergood

Sona's pumpkin crème brulée is a perfect mixture of seasonality, holiday flare and basic kitchen technique. Sona chef de cuisine Kuniko Yagi makes the custards in little ramekins and sends them out as an amuse-bouche. She tops the little custards with a fine dice of sauteed pumpkin and a few......

Rumors are the most fun when they're true. According to a highly reliable source who wishes to remain anonymous (and news stories are the most fun when you get to say that), today's Eater LA report that Bastide is reopening is correct. Joe Pytka's Melrose Place restaurant, shuttered since last......

David Myers' empire (Sona, comme Ça, Pizzeria Ortica) may have been recalibrated recently, with both the original Boule across La Cienega Boulevard from Sona and a second Boule in Beverly Hills closing earlier this year and, recently, rumors of changes at Sona. But Myers, an Ohio native who trained with......

If you've been sitting through all those Top Chef elimination and Quickfire challenges just to get to the desserts, Bravo has the show for you. Today network executives announced that a Top Chef spin-off series has been picked up. Top Chef: Just Desserts (the same drill, only with pastry chefs)......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters." 5 Great LA Dive......

When Eric Greenspan of The Foundry on Melrose was eliminated in the first round of this season's The Next Iron Chef, the only Los Angeles chef in the contest left the building--or the kitchen. Since Greenspan's elimination, the ranks have been culled further: second to go was Holly Smith (Cafe......

If you're the sort of person whose idea of a fun time is curling up with a mug of Armagnac and a sauce-spattered vintage edition of Paula Wolfert's 1983 classic The Cooking of Southwest France, then you might want to make reservations at Bistro LQ next Tuesday or Wednesday night......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer lucyrk, who took the gorgeous shot on October 4th with a Casio EX-S770. Pictures of pristine, untouched plates are beautiful, but so are those of the remnants: thoroughly enjoyed, accessible, works in progress......

For a town with myriad world-class restaurants and a stretch of beach that is gorgeous, accessible, and fronts a fairly large portion of urban acreage, Los Angeles has surprisingly few good options for beachfront dining. So few, in fact, that when we want to eat near the water, we stop......