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A.O.C., the restaurant and wine bar owned by chef Suzanne Goin and sommelier Caroline Styne, will celebrate its last night in its original West Third street location this coming Saturday, Jan. 19. The restaurant, which opened in 2002, is moving to a new location at 8700 West Third Street, about......

RivaBella, a collaboration between Gino Angelini and Innovative Dining Group, opens its doors today for dinner in West Hollywood in the former Hamburger Hamlet location on Sunset Boulevard. Angelini is the chef behind the celebrated and fairly intimate Italian restaurant Angelini Osteria, and Innovative Dining Group is behind flashy, often......

There aren't many days in Los Angeles that warrant the drinking of hot booze, but today is one of those days. Which is apropos, because today is National Hot Toddy day, a cocktail that predates the word "cocktail." No one really knows when and where the hot toddy was invented,......

Are you a salad fetishist? I mean a true lover of greens and dressing, not necessarily the meat-free eater that has turned salads into a meal-in-a-bowl art form, but someone who really, truly loves salad at its most basic? If so, BierBeisl has some salads you should check out. The......

Two great L.A. restaurants have dinners coming up that benefit charity. Next week on Jan. 14, Animal will host a dinner with Christopher Kostow, the 3 star Michelin chef of The Restaurant at Meadowood in St. Helena, California......

Our restaurant review this week takes on BierBeisl, the Austrian restaurant that opened in Beverly Hills last February. You can read the full review, or check out the cheat sheet below......

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to Brandon Boudet, chef of Dominick's and Little Dom's. There's all kinds of things that can spark an eBay addiction -- for chef Brandon Boudet it was......

The Annual Consumer Electronics Show is taking place this week in Las Vegas, and as usual there's a lot of buzz around the size-du-jour of the screen-type-device we'll all be utterly dependent upon soon (apparently 2013 will be the year of the phablet. No, really). But there's also some fun......

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week, Steve Samson, chef (along with Zach Pollack) at Sotto, tells us his favorite spots to eat these days. Although he's known for his unflinchingly......