Amy Scattergood

Popular restaurant week + food trucks. You knew it was only a matter of time before somebody cross-referenced this one. To promote their upcoming Restaurant Week (which we're doing a pretty good job of ourselves, no?), dineLA has partnered with Roadstoves, which outfits a good number of LA food trucks,......

Remember back when you had to call a restaurant to see when it was open? And the restaurant was a brick-and-mortar place that didn't move so you knew that it would be there when you drove into the parking lot? Yeah, yeah, and I rode my horse to that school......

This week's top 10 food list? Japanese noodle shops in Torrance (and yes, with a little spill over into Gardena). Before we reveal the list, we thought we'd give you the runners-up. You gotta love the drumroll portion of the program. If you take issue with the list, or its......

Ludo Bites may be gone from one BreadBar location, but the Hatchi series continues at the other. This Thursday Remi Lauvand will be the guest chef at the Century City BreadBar event. The French-born Lauvand was chef de cuisine at Citrus at Social during Michel Richard's tenure; since leaving Citrus......

Chef Neal Fraser, of Grace and BLD, has gotten very tech-y lately, sending a ton of twitpix on Twitter. Now check out his new project, which must require not only a sous chef or two but maybe a few tech-savvy teenagers as well. (Culinary schools should issue iPhones as well......

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who reportedly drinks more than 20 cups of joe a day, is preparing to nationalize his country's two largest coffee companies. According to the AP, Chavez ("If they give me an excuse, I'll nationalize them") claims the Caracas-based companies have not complied with federal price controls......

Antigua Coffee House opened its doors in Cypress Park 18 days ago. It was a long transition process for owner Yancey Quinones, whose previous Antigua coffee shop on Huntington Drive in El Sereno closed a year ago July. And it's not the only current project for Quinones, whose family has......

Tomoharu Nakamura won the 2009 SushiMasters Finals East/West Challenge yesterday in Little Tokyo. The knife-wielding chef beat out Randy Noprapa of Maneki Neko Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia; Toshio Furihata of Moshi Moshi Restaurant in Miami Beach; and Hyun Min Suh of Sushi Ran in Sausalito. The chef, of San......

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Hard to believe it was only five weeks ago I tweeted: Why doesn't someone start a pancake truck? " Eating L.A.'s Pat Saperstein on her wish come true. "Really, we have to rethink USDA." Marion Nestle......

Campanile chef-owner Mark Peel and GM Jay Perrin have had a cocktail-bar-and-eatery project in the works for 2 years now, and--finally--the project is nearing completion. In about 2 months the pair will open the doors to the former Oasis location, right next door to Cube and conveniently located up La......