Elina Shatkin

Bar Keeper proprietor Joe Keeper doesn't just sell vintage cocktail shakers and uncommonly flavored bitters at his Silver Lake store. He sells ritual. And hopefully, he'll soon be able to sell alcohol. On Tuesday, the eve of the store's fifth anniversary, Keeper had a hearing before L.A.'s Office of Zoning......

They say Paris is gorgeous in spring. But if you can't make it all the way to France, two new crepe trucks are doing their best to bring a bit of Paris to Los Angeles. The real question: is this town big enough for two crepe trucks? Crepe'n Around (Twitter:......

Los Angeles has plenty of Thai food, but what about Tai food? Outside of the San Gabriel Valley, it can be hard to find Taiwanese dumplings. Hoping to bring these delicate balls of meat, vegetables, and dough to the masses, Helen Pan, 25, and Chris Aragon, 28, launched the Dumpling......

Orange County isn't known for its abundance of New York and Jewish-style delis, but the Brooklyn Boys food truck, launched on Feb. 1, hopes to change that. Roaming from Fullerton and Placentia on the northern tip to Santa Ana and Irvine and all the way down to San Clemente on......

Compared to the $2200 annual membership fee at The Doheny, the $20 membership fee at Caña is a steal. You can thank the recession (and Cedd Moses). The price of privilege just went down. Hot on the heels of debuting mezcal and tequila bar Las Perlas on Mar. 9, Moses......

You may not be able to waltz into a fancy-pants restaurant like Nobu or La Cachette and order a gourmet meal, but soon you'll be able to sample the cooking of some of LA's finest chefs from the pick-up window of a food truck. This Tuesday, March 23rd, St. Vincent......

When Mary J. Blige dubs your homemade tortilla chips "crack chips," (because they're so addictive they're like... well, you get it), you don't think twice about putting them on the menu. Chef Brian Hill's Comfort Truck (Twitter: @comforttruck) rolls out today, serving seven kinds of fried or sautéed sliders (barbecue,......

Canter's Deli, an institution known as much for its round-the-clock service and its preserved-in-amber ambiance as for its cuisine, just leapfrogged into the year 2010 with a food truck that hits the streets of Los Angeles -- hopefully this week. The Canter's Deli truck (Twitter: @canterstruck) is the brainchild of......

The strangest thing about Goal, LA's newest upscale sports bar, isn't what's there. It's what's missing. Recently soft-opened on a stretch of W. 3rd St. known more for chic cafes and fine dining, Goal offers the de rigueur décor of a sports bar: dark wood, leather booths, plenty of flatscreen......

For every bar there's a liquor and for every liquor there's a bar. Nightlife impresario Cedd Moses' latest venture, Las Perlas, soft-opened last night, aiming to become to mezcal and tequila what Seven Grand is to whiskey and La Descarga is to rum. The result is somewhere between an upscale......