Amy Scattergood

Why experience the travesty that is Southern Californians behind the wheel in actual weather, when you can eat terrific food for a bargain in the relative safety of a swank restaurant? Happily dineLA has announced that they're extending their fall restaurant week (weeks!) to a third week, October 19th -......

Whether you're a Doris Day fan or not (well, really, how can you not be), it is best not to eat the daisies. But roses are another matter. The edible roses at Schaner Farms' stall at the Santa Monica farmers market this morning were gorgeous, good to eat as well......

Eva Restaurant has only been open a short while, in the former Hatfield's location on Beverly Boulevard, but it was packed last night, the patrons taking shelter from the sudden rainstorm. Slightly damp diners ate bowlsful of warm potato-Reggiano soup as the rain came down, chef-owner Mark Gold ushering people......

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you courtesy of photographer R.E.~, who took the gorgeous shot on October 2 at Intelligentsia Venice on Abbot Kinney. Latte art is a beautiful thing; art of latte art is too......

This past weekend's Luxury Chocolate Salon, in which 35 chocolatiers and confectioners and bakers--and a lot of chocaholics--gathered at the Pasadena Convention Center, was more fun than you'd think you'd have under glaring fluorescent lights and in a space that resembled a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel banquet hall. But there......

Since Condé Nast made their Sophie's Choice decision last week to keep Bon Appétit and shut down Gourmet magazine, there has been much speculation about how this is going to affect the former publication, the editorial offices of which are here in Los Angeles. Bon Appétit Editor-in-Chief Barbara Fairchild sent......

Stuck in the San Gabriel Valley without your copy of the Weekly or that dog-eared, garlic sauce-spattered copy of Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants? Can't imagine trying out a noodle house or bistro or taqueria without finding out of it's earned an imprimatur from your favorite restaurant critic? Sure,......

Stuck in the San Gabriel Valley without your copy of the Weekly or that dog-eared, garlic sauce-spattered copy of Jonathan Gold's 99 Essential LA Restaurants? Can't imagine trying out a noodle house or bistro or taqueria without finding out of it's earned an imprimatur from your favorite restaurant critic? Sure,......

In response to our post about Governor Schwarzenegger's breakfast Twitpic (fruit, oatmeal, smiley face), our favorite comment of the day, or the week really:......

Thyme Cafe and Market is opening tomorrrow morning on Ocean Park in Santa Monica. The lofty space, which has been under construction for the last year, is also the new home of Thyme Catering, founded by caterer and 3rd generation Angeleno Maire Byrne, whose grandmother's family owned a dairy farm......