Christie Bishop

The Slow Food movement is in full force, and the Slow Drink movement is catching up fast, particularly at the Roosevelt Hotel's somewhat-hidden Library Bar, smack in the middle of Hollywood. It's run by head bartender Matthew Biancaniello - soon to be featured in Bon Appetit's September Restaurant Issue -......

How do you like your cocktail? Straight-up, salty, sweet? How about mouth-burning, butt-kicking spicy? If it's heat you crave, L.A.'s latest cocktail craze - all things jalapeño - is for you. Mixologists from Santa Monica to downtown to the Valley are turning to the Mexican-grown chili to add a kick......

It's been almost six months since the Flying Pig Truck first rolled onto the streets of LA. Now Flying Pig's co-owner and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, Joe Kim, tells us he has big plans to open not one, not two, but three new restaurants around town. Butalani, Kim's first brick-and-mortar......

Here's the situation: you just received the latest issue of your favorite food magazine. As you flip through the glossy pages of recipes and food porn, you spot it: the recipe you're going to make for dinner. But one glance at the ingredient list leaves you stumped. Where in the......

March 25 is International Waffle Day; not to be confused with National Waffle Day (August 24) or National Waffle Iron Day (June 29). While we don't understand the need for three distinct waffle days - domestic, international, gadget-oriented or otherwise - we'll find any excuse to eat ourselves into waffle......

DineLA may be in between Restaurant Weeks, but foodies need not worry; there's another charitable food fest headed to town. The Perfect Pairings Menu Campaign - running through the month of April - has signed up more than fifty LA chefs and restaurants to create food and drink pairings with......

Philippe Chow may have eponymous restaurants in New York and Miami, but it's his West Hollywood location that's feeling the love. Every week from Sunday to Thursday night, Philippe by Philippe Chow is serving up a "neighborhood" prix-fixe three-course menu for forty dollars per person. Twenty extra bucks gets you......

David Myers' Sona may be temporarily shutting its doors soon, but Sona's chef de cuisine Kuniko Yagi is not only still cooking at the restaurant -- which is open until May -- but she's popping up elsewhere too. Next Thursday, March 25, Yagi will be the guest chef of BREADBAR......

It's been two months since Top Chef: Season 5 alum Alex Eusebio and his wife, Sara Mann, opened Sweetsalt Food Shop, Toluca Lake's neighborhood sandwich joint. Admittedly "turned off by the idea of big restaurant drama" after his Top Chef experience, Eusebio and his wife opted for a more simple,......

A finalist from Food Network's The Next Food Network Star is popping up in LA. No, not Melissa D'Arabian. We're talking about Debbie Lee, who is cooking up her version of soot jeep - think Korean-inspired pub grub - at BREADBAR's Third Street location until Saturday, April 10. Lee's limited-time......