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Downtown LA: We Want Trader Joe's!

You know who likes shopping at Trader Joe's? Angelyne. You know who else would really, really, really, really like to do the same thing? Residents of downtown Los Angeles. Tracking the hopes, dreams, fears and practical commercial concerns of DTLA dwellers, the 2011 Downtown LA Demographic study (PDF available here)......
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Mr. Pizza to Open in Little Tokyo: Yam Crust!

"Like a pizza that dreamed of becoming a plate of nachos but ended up flunking Spanish," Mr. Pizza is opening another Los Angeles location. The Korean pizza chain that's wildly popular in its homeland but is more of a cross-cultural oddity in Los Angeles, is opening an outpost in Little......
The scene inside Voyeur.; Credit: Lina Lecaro

Celeb Hotspots Cited for Not Serving Food: Shocking!

At Voyeur, strippers used the kitchen as a dressing room. At SBE-owned Industry, a table for the night costs $2,000, but don't expect to eat. At Hyde Lounge, another SBE hotspot, ask a bartender for food and you'll be told they don't serve any. That's according to an undercover investigation......
Two of the vintage ads in the Gee

Gee, That Food Looks Terrible!

God bless old cookbooks and vintage advertisements. God bless Jell-O molds. God bless America's post-WWII bounty and our faith in science to "improve" hearty, classic foods by replacing them with elaborately stylized fare. It was often done in the name of modernity, in the name of artistry. Here, where misguided......
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Burrito King to Become Mixto Comida Latina

The longstanding Burriton King outpost at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Alvarado Street Hyperion and Rowena has been bought by the owners of Silver Lake pizza joint Tomato Pie, and is set to become Mixto Comida Latina, according to The Eastsider LA. Gone is the yellow and orange paint,......
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World's Largest BLT, Built in Ohio

600 pounds of bacon, 440 pounds of bread, 550 pounds of tomatoes, 220 heads of iceberg lettuce, 110 pounds of butter and 60 gallons of mayonnaise. That's what it took to construct the largest BLT ever created by humans, reports CBS St. Louis......
The Mini Burger Delicious; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Burger Kitchen Gets "Ramsayed" on Kitchen Nightmares

Burger Kitchen has received plenty of praise from local critics, both of the pro and amateur varieties, but you're nobody in this town until Gordon Ramsay screams at you. The 3rd Street burger joint recently got the British chef's trademark revamp, complete with bleeped cuss words and video cameras for......
Westside Food Truck Central at the corner of Washington

Westside Food Truck Central Lot Closes — Temporarily?

A window opens, a door closes. As part of a broader crackdown on the constantly expanding fleet of nouveau food trucks, city inspectors are taking a hard look at food truck lots. Westside Food Truck Central (@FoodTruckCntral) was shut down in early August......