Elina Shatkin

Remember when bagels were health food, fusion hadn't become shorthand for pan-ethnic unoriginality and we were all giddy with the possibility of cereal bars as meal replacements? The 1980s are long gone. So why are their bland, neutered waitstaff uniforms still with us? Not that we're suggesting a return to......

Road Stoves, the company that ignited L.A.'s nouveau food truck scene, is hoping that its second taco truck concept does as well as its first (you may know it as Kogi). After two weeks of informal previews, Knock Out Tacos (Twitter: @kotacotruck) helmed by former Bottega Louie chef Chris Goossen,......

It's a pig-eat-pig world -- especially in the South -- and nobody does a better job of burrowing into its greasy nooks than Oxford American. The quarterly mag's Southern Foods issue, guest edited by John T. Edge, recently hit the stands. A masterpiece of carefully curated minutiae and eccentric trend......

Some bars are neighborhood-themed bars (like Thirsty Crow), and some are actual neighborhood bars. 1642, opened in March in Historic Filipinotown or HiFi (is anyone actually calling it that?), is a quiet beer bar that's within stumbling distance of Echo Park but feels worlds away from the ironic hipness of......

With all the recent hoopla about fried chicken, it's no surprise that Animal chefs and recent New Yorker poster boys Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo wanted to enshrine their take on the dish. Yesterday on the Cart For A Cause truck, the dudes dished out a boneless fried chicken breast......

6 hours, 82 sandwiches and one really bad lactose hangover, I survived another Grilled Cheese Invitational. Far better organized than last year's nightmare of an event, the 2010 GCI was bigger, cheesier and much tougher to win. With over 230 competitors, your sandwich has to be more than tasty, it......

The mystery of where to get your munchies has been solved. With a name, logo and truck design inspired by Scooby-Doo cartoon vehicle, the Mystery Machine, The Munchie Machine (Twitter: @munchiemachine1) food truck rolls out tomorrow, April 20th. Like the cartoon, the truck can be understood two ways: wholesome family......

The skunk butts are long gone (rumor has it they'll decorate the dressing rooms at the Henry Fonda Theater). So is the collection of beer cans lining the walls. Few traces are left of Silver Lake's much maligned faux-trucker bar Stinkers, which closed on Feb 15, and has been replaced......

Road Stoves, the company that leased Kogi BBQ its first truck and helped kick off the nouveau food truck craze, just debuted Road Stoves GPS, a $0.99 iPhone and iPad app that it hopes will be a game-changer for the food truck industry. There are already several websites (LATruxmap, Clustertruck,......

By now you probably already know that Stinkers bar in Silver Lake will re-open on April 23 as Thirsty Crow, a thematic shift that moves the venue from Ironic Truck Stop Chic to Grampy's Neighborhood Bourbon Bar. Named after one of Aesop's Fables -- in which a thirsty crow drops......