Amy Scattergood

Unless you were a regular at Schatzi on Main, Arnold Schwarzenegger's now-closed Austrian beerhaus in Santa Monica, you may be rather startled to discover an enormous portrait of the Governor, circa The Terminator era, in the elevator lobby. You should not be. After all, Governor Schwarzenegger still has an office......

Fred's Cantina in Old Town Pasadena will soon be closing, to be replaced by a new Mexican restaurant called Ixtapa Cantina. Fred's will shutter in the next few weeks, and the space will be gutted to make way for the new restaurant, the third Pasadena project by Jack Huang, who......

BP Oysterette, a cheery little seafood eatery that specializes in, you guessed it, oysters, opened yesterday in Santa Monica. Not just anywhere in Santa Monica either, but right on Ocean Avenue, a few blocks up from Santa Monica pier and thus with a terrific view of the water. Just the......

That food is big news seems, well, ironic at best, given the fact that it's as basic as air and water to human survival. But then air (quality) and water (drought) are big news too. In this vein, the new issue of The Nation hits the stands and the web:......

Today dineLA announced the list of restaurants participating in its fall 2009 event, two weeks of specially priced three-course meals presented by many Los Angeles restaurants. dineLA Restaurant Week (singular, plural, whatever) will take place between October 4 - 9 and October 11 - 16. Sponsored by LA INC., the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau and American Express, dineLA......

Nom Nom Truck hit the streets of LA this past week, with a soft opening (yes, you can have a soft opening with a food truck as well as a brick-and-mortar restaurant) on the Westside and downtown near USC. It's been a frenetic few days for the UCLA grads who......

Chichen Itza, the highly-regarded Mexican restaurant near downtown L.A.'s MacArthur Park that specializes in the food of the Yucatán, is closing as of tomorrow. It's the economics, said chef-owner Gilberto Cetina when reached by phone this afternoon. "You know, we can't make it. We've been losing money for the last......

Pasadena residents and those visiting Old Town tonight will have not only smoke from the Station fire to navigate but crowds of Michael Jackson fans. Villa Sorriso, the Italian restaurant on the far western edge of Colorado Boulevard is hosting the King of Pop's burial reception tonight. No, you can't......

Sheila Lukins, co-author of the Silver Palate cookbooks, died on Sunday in Manhattan at the age of 66. Lukins was a huge influence on American cooking, and the cookbooks she wrote, many with Julee Russo, sold millions of copies and were instrumental in teaching a generation (maybe two) of Americans......