Elina Shatkin

Three updates in the Kosher Corridor: Sangak Bakery will open at 8702 Pico Boulevard, just a few doors down from Kabab Mahaleh, which serves some of our favorite sangak.Milky's Frozen Yogurt, a kosher fro-yo shop that will have to contend with nearby Yogo Frozen Yogurt, will open on Robertson a......

When we last checked in with Latin American-tinged Cafe Bolivar back in May, there was trouble. Co-owners Jose Carvajal and Noreen Sakai were at each others' throats, metaphorically speaking. After much legal wrangling, the two finally reached a settlement. Carvajal tells us that in late July he bought out Sakai......

Los Angeles Times and Food & Wine's The Taste This three-day blowout features nine events spread out across three locations. Look for Roy Choi, Giada De Laurentiis, Susan Feniger, Scott Conant, Julian Cox, Celestino Drago, Ray Garcia, Ludo Lefebvre, Aida Mollenkamp, The question is: Who isn't showing up at this......

In a neighborhood as heavy on Persian culture and cuisine as the Kosher Corridor, it shouldn't be so hard to find a good kebab. It shouldn't be, but it often is. The small and grubby Livonia Glatt Market grills up kebabs you can smell from half-a-block away, but they only......

Eating at Wahlburgers, you won't get six-pack abs like Mark Wahlberg in his Calvin Klein heyday. You can, however, enjoy the vicarious (and guiltless) thrill of watching the former Funky Bunch frontman help run a burger emporium. Wahlberg and his brothers may sign on for a reality series that would......

This fair season alone, Chicken Charlie has already sold 200,000 Fried Kool-Aid balls and 6,000 pounds of fried ribs. He's hoping to top that when the LA County Fair opens this weekend in Pomona......

If you want to vote geographically in Tommy Bahama's search for their first ever Rumologist, a contest/publicity stunt that launched in late July, you have two local options among the 20 finalists: Matthew Robold of Orange, well known to local cocktail hounds as RumDood (@rumdood) and Phil Thompson, who has......

By now, we've all probably heard about Jim Nakano's legendary strawberry donuts: "flattened demisphere big enough to use as a Pilates cushion, split in two and filled to order with what must be an entire basket of fresh strawberries, and only in season." Fewer people know that Glendora's patron saint......

After a recent and very quiet soft-opening, new gastropub Rascal officially opens tonight on La Brea Avenue. The owners are former Chaya beverage director Sandy Clark and his wife, Rebecca, who was once GM at Trumps, a popular L.A. restaurant in the 1980s......