Elina Shatkin

There are some neighborhoods where Turkish coffee is easier to find than an out of work actor. Santa Monica isn't one of them. At Flying Saucers, owner Ryan Morris, 33, makes excellent Turkish coffee, the old-school way. Ground with cardamom, cinnamon and other spices until it's so fine it's like......

The cocktails flowed freely at Saturday night's Union Station Speakeasy Cocktail Party. Organized by the Weekly's own Jonathan Gold as a fundraiser for Zócalo Public Square, the 1920s-themed shindig featured nine L.A. restaurants dishing out appetizers and five bars, all owned by Cedd Moses, mixing retro-inspired cocktails. Would-be flappers mingled......

​Parade, the country's most irrelevant and boring news magazine, has decided to launch a recipe site. Proof that food writing has jumped the shark or added fuel for recent claims that "food is the new black"? Putting aside journalists' reliance on the "X is the new Y" cliché, MinOnline claims......

If you didn't get a reservation at this Friday's sold-out Supper Liberation Front pop-up at Guelaguetza, no need to cry into your chapulines. There were only 50 spots for the seven-course, prix-fixe meal, and they went quickly. However, you can still pop into Guelaguetza on Friday night and get a......

For one rare night, chefs Josh Gil and Daniel Snukal take their semi-underground, pop-up restaurant legit, bringing Supper Liberation Front to Oaxacan stalwart Guelaguetza. Think of this as a taste of things to come. What things? We can't say. Gil, who earned his Michelin star while serving as the chef......

When Brian Lethcoe cuts the ribbon tomorrow morning, it will mark the "official" opening of Nibble Bit Tabby Brewery, only the second legal brewery within Los Angeles city limits. In fact, Lethcoe, a local boy who was raised in Venice and now lives in Highland Park, has been brewing at......

The People of the Book (finally) become the People of the Truck when Takosher (Twitter: @takosher), the nation's first kosher taco truck soft-launches on Monday, serving tacos with brisket, latkes, and more traditional fillings. T.G.I.N.F. because the Takosher Truck, like the John Goodman character in "The Big Lebowski," doesn't roll......

While the real food truck wars rage in the city council and on the streets of Los Angeles, the Food Network hopes to cash in on the mobile eatery trend with The Great Food Truck Race, a lighthearted reality show that debuts this Sunday, August 15th. It pits seven food......

Is Dante Gonzales an artist/event promoter who loves cooking or a chef who cooks up high-concept events? The self-styled "Mr. Fried Chicken" lets Los Angeles decide as he stuffs his entire underground art-and-grub mashup party into a food truck. The Dante Fried Chicken truck (Twitter: @kfcrip) officially launches next Tuesday,......