Amy T. Shuster

During the holidays, you'll most likely find yourself with at least one or two party invitations (if you're lucky) and, at one point or another, needing to make a choice. What to bring? You decide on a bottle of wine -- it's the holidays after all, so you're feeling fancy......

Young entrepreneurs, especially those in the food world, often fail to make it past their first year. Kristine de la Cruz of Crème Caramel L.A. started out in 2010 making savory desserts and bread puddings from her home kitchen, then expanded her business to local farmers markets. Now with her......

Matthew Biancaniello, farmers market forager and wizard bar wonder, loves unusual flavor pairings. He's known for using seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients in his creative cocktails at Cliff's Edge in Silver Lake, as well as previously at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Library Bar, and he's recently been popping up around Los Angeles......

If you drive by the new Hollywood Pies dine-in location, which officially soft opened this past weekend in West Los Angeles, you just might miss it. Taking up a humble 26-seat residence that fittingly used to house former pizza dive Pizza Mania, the location now sports a modest square sign......

The owners of Old San Juan, a new Puerto Rican restaurant in Atwater Village that opens its doors tonight, want you to put on your Salsa dancing shoes. Ramon L. Galindo and Puerto Rican-born executive chef Luis Castro hosted a special preview opening last week, although it was more like......