Amy Scattergood

Judging by the amount of flashes you see going off at restaurants these days, taking pictures of your dinner is about as common as actually eating it. Maybe there are a lot more people arting out their living rooms with framed photographs of Korean barbecue and Kumamoto oysters, pommes frites......

Here's this week's edition of Name That Burger, in which you guess the venue of a hamburger based on a picture (below) and a brief description. For everyone who guessed BLD for burger #7, you were right. (Yes, I know the salt and pepper shakers were a giveaway.) This one......

It may not always look like it, with the limos circling the driveway and the fashion-intensive hotel guests filling the 'indoor piazza' and an interior design that resembles an unlikely confluence of Salvador Dali and Monty Python, but The Bazaar is at heart a tapas restaurant. And on the menu,......

So you don't really think that working chefs eat all the fancy stuff they cook all day long, do you? Think of the overhead. The labor. The investment of time. Also, sometimes you just want a jelly donut. Here's what everyone was noshing on at José Andrés' The Bazaar mid-afternoon......

Just in time for the start of the NFL season, when the need for wings and bar food and a safe place to watch the games is paramount, Buffalo Wild Wings is opening its new location in Burbank. And, in a fit of inaugural largess, the company is giving away......

At the Santa Monica farmers market yesterday morning, farmer Jeff Rieger of Penryn Orchard Specialties wanted to talk about persimmons. On the table were crates of Muscat de Hambourg grapes (the last day for them). Yali Chinese pears, with their "hint of star anise" (a couple more weeks). Mutsu, also......

If you're yearning to try a few of the restaurants that will be participating in the upcoming dineLA Restaurant Week (um, weeks), FoodGPS is sponsoring 2 progressive dinners to preview participating restaurants, and they're walkable. Not only can you hit a few restaurants, picked for their proximity as well as......

Want to thank Dodger outfielder Andre Ethier personally for his game-winning 13th inning walk-off homerun last night against the Bucs? Tomorrow night, he'll chair the Home Plate Restaurant Awards at downtown's Cicada Restaurant. The food and wine tasting event will showcase food from area restaurants; attendees will be able to......

You would never know, if you drove past Jim Duffy's modest suburban one-story house on the outskirts of San Diego--a few pots on the porch, his son's gear on the lawn--that in the scruffy back yard Duffy grows some of the hottest and rarest chile peppers in the world. Duffy--who......

Thanks to Jacob Strauss, who posted this picture (Paula Deen via Photobucket) on his blog Food Network Addict. "I started Food Network Addict three and a half years ago after I got a job writing about the most boring subject matter ever," Strauss emailed us. "I wanted to write, in......