Celia Soudry

First Fridays on Abbot Kinney -- a monthly cultural event where retailers in Venice showcase their goods while sometimes providing live music, appetizers and cocktails -- has lately seemed to center more around food trucks than local businesses. During the dinner rush last Friday night, hordes of tipsy and hungry......

Sisters Jenny and Heather Goldberg have been living and working together for several years. But the co-owners of Spork Foods, an organic vegan cooking company, will no longer share the same living space when they move the business to a West Hollywood loft, a step up from their quaint home-kitchen......

French-Moroccan restaurant, Chameau, located in the Fairfax district, and originally opened in Silver Lake in 2001, reopened last Saturday as Chameau Deli Bar. Prices have been slashed and the restaurant is much more casual than its previous design. Co-owners Kelly Klemovich and chef Adel Chager decided to keep the basic......

As celebrities and the Hollywood elite nibble on Wolfgang Puck's feast at the official Governors Ball after-party this Sunday, you can also partake in Oscar-worthy boozing and dining at a restaurant of your choice. Or you can stay home shouting off-the-cuff remarks at your television screen. If you're throwing your......

If you're often fighting your way to the front of the line at food truck festivals, cupcake challenges, (and the Gold Standard food event on Sunday), you should probably try to squeeze in a salad. As far as we know, there are no salad trucks just yet. But there is......

Shopping at Elat Market or Pico Glatt on a Friday afternoon can be stressful--maneuvering your cart through crowded aisles, fighting the neighborhood yenta for the last challah. But MyKosherLA, a website breaking down all things kosher into categories such as eating out, groceries, catering and kashrut, can be your moshiach......

Since the closing of the original Santa Monica Place in 2008, passers-by near the south end of Third Street Promenade have been wondering at the dark and mysterious tarp-covered space. The first week of August, the tarp will be lifted to reveal a newly constructed Santa Monica Place featuring a......

This past Sunday night couples trickled into Akasha, ready to start a romantic evening of eating farm fresh organic fare and listening to live jazz, which will now become a regular happening at the Culver City restaurant. "I always wanted to bring in live jazz," said Akasha Richmond, owner and......

With childhood dreams of opening her own retro ice cream parlor, Farah Gast is off to a running start with Cookie Munch, a dessert/hot dog shop she opened February 6th in Tarzana. Cookie Munch doles out classic Dreyer's ice cream flavors and various toppings, an array of freshly baked cookies,......

Larkin Mackey and Joshua McBride, owners of Larkin's Joint, offer macaroni and cheese at their Eagle Rock restaurant. But clearly this was just a warm up for the partners, who are opening a to-go and delivery mac & cheese bar, a concept which has been in the works for several......