Celia Soudry

Tuesday morning, September 21st, Napa Valley Grille in Westwood Village promoted upcoming DineLA, a two-week event featuring over 300 restaurants, beginning October 3. The launch party and cook-off starred local politicians and chefs, including Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Councilman Paul Koretz, Mark Peel (Campanile, Tar Pit), David LeFevre (Water Grill), and......

There are two types of food bloggers, says Patti Londre, who runs Camp Blogaway, a boot camp for food and recipe bloggers. There are those who don't care all that much about how many hits they get but are more interested in the content, and there are those trying to......

If you're not busy dipping apples in honey for Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Friday, September 10th, you can stop by Fred Segal from 6 to 10 p.m. for Magnolia Bakery's first pop-up shop. Coinciding with Fashion's Night Out, Magnolia, which opened, closed, then opened again on West Third......

Obikà Mozzarella Bar, originally a European and Asian brand with 13 stores in Rome, Milan, Tokyo, London and most recently New York, is opening its first California location in Century City's Westfield Shopping Center on September 15. Obikà, on the second floor of the mall between the food court and......

Hana Sushi, located on Wilshire Blvd and Granville Avenue, is closed. The windows are covered and the patio is bare. Known for its happy hours, bar scene and sushi rolls, the restaurant, owned by former UCLA defensive back Bob Stiles, recently sold their liquor license and business, according to a......

As heavily blogged about spots boasting big name chefs (Test Kitchen) emerge on the scene, along with new restaurants atop luxury shopping centers (Santa Monica Place), we're also tracking the lesser-known eateries occupying and departing strip malls around town. While some spaces remain vacant, such as the former Koo Koo......

High-priced food festivals like Taste of Beverly Hills and Los Angeles Times Celebration of Food and Wine are quickly approaching, but there's one festival even a high-schooler can afford: the first annual Munch LA food fair at Fairfax High School, September 18 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m., for $7 (pre-sale ticket......

Asakuma restaurant, which has been serving sushi and Japanese food since 1985, closed three weeks ago, according to an employee of Asakuma Delivery, which has a different owner than the restaurant. "They went bankrupt," said an Asakuma Delivery employee. The interior of the restaurant has not been cleared out yet,......

It was a Monday afternoon in early August when Joanna Moore, owner of Axe, the 12-year-old restaurant in Venice, was informed that her business was ablaze. About eight fire trucks arrived shortly after a friend and people in the neighborhood reported flames and smoke rising from the back of the......