Christine Chiao

For the summer only, Brooke Williamson, chef and co-owner of the Tripel in Playa del Rey, has brought back the corn salad. "It's something we've now added to the menu for the third summer in a row, because people have specifically requested it. Since the corn plays such a huge......

You can say that Valerie Gordon and Stan Weightman Jr. have had a banner year thus far with the expansion of their gourmet goods business, beginning with the set-up of a stall inside Grand Central Market in May. More recently, they added a new corner café called Valerie Echo Park,......

As you may have already read over on The Informer, Whole Foods will be setting up a downtown Los Angeles location at 770 S. Grand Avenue by 2015. For well-heeled downtown denizens, this is likely welcome news, given a common complaint of the lack of grocery options, such that weekend......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mian, cups of boba and......

It's International Beer Day tomorrow, August 2, not to be confused with National Beer Day, which was April 7. The day was founded five years ago by an entrepreneur named Jesse Avshalomov and his friends, which when described on their website sounds exactly how you'd imagine things would have gone......

Slowly but surely Los Angeles is gaining the type of regional comfort food we've heard transplants reminisce about -- whether it's Central Texan-style barbecue, slow-cooked roast beef sandwiches sliced to order or New England seafood. This week Freddy Smalls' chef Charlie Parker is bringing a taste from the City of......

Dominick's & Palmina Winemaker Dinner Dominick's is hosting a six-course dinner featuring a pig roast, paired with wines from Palmina Winery. The meal will begin with jambalaya arancini followed by a salad of summer lettuces with roasted apricots and house-made milk ricotta. The pig roast entrée will be served with......

The name of the latest restaurant from Michael Hide Cardenas (Sushi Roku and Lazy Ox Canteen) gets to the point: Taberna Arros y Vi, or Rice and Wine Tavern. As Cardenas simply puts it, "a lot of our dishes incorporate rice and wine." The restaurant in Santa Monica began serving......

Non-profit organization Project by Project will bring back its annual tasting Plate by Plate, now in its 11th year, this Saturday, August 3, inviting Angelenos to feast for a good cause at Vibiana. Many of the city's notable restaurants both familiar and new, such as Allumette, Petty Cash Taqueria, Bestia,......

West Hollywood Councilman John Duran is galvanizing local bars to join in a protest against both anti-gay measures passed by the Russian government and violence experienced by its LGBT citizens at Micky's on Santa Monica this coming Thursday, August 1, according to Huffington Post. Mary McClintock of Micky's says that......