Elina Shatkin

Checked in with Dean Loring, president and CEO of Burger Lounge, who tells us the first Los Angeles location of the San Diego-based chain should open some time in October. Situated on the Sunset Strip (not far from recently opened Rosa Mexicano), it will feature the same small menu of......

If light can be a particle and a wave, why can't cola be a liquid and a solid? Cola Up bridges the chasm between traditionalists who insist that soda should be sipped and hydrocolloidal optimists who believe anything can be slurped down in solid form. We spotted Cola Up in......

Dewey-cheeked British chef and would-be L.A. school lunch reformer Jamie Oliver had his restaurant attacked amid the rioting that has erupted in the U.K. following the police shooting of a young man. Jamie's Italian, located in the Bullring shopping center in Birmingham, was in the path of rioters. Yesterday, at......

Perhaps you make artisanal brandied cherries. Or herbed goat cheese. Or hand-dipped chocolate and cayenne marshmallows. Want a little recognition? Nominate yourself (or your favorite product) for the 1st Annual Gourmet Product Awards. Early entry deadline is August 12th; final deadline is September 15th. There are 36 categories -- including......

After being frog-marched out of his raw milk speakeasy in a Wednesday morning raid then spending the night in jail, Rawesome Foods owner James Stewart was released yesterday on $30,000 bail under the condition that he cannot sell unpasteurized dairy without a license. (His bail was originally set at $125,000.)......

Candy may be dandy but liquor is quicker, especially when it comes to increasing your risk of pancreatitis. Drinking just 4 cl. (centilitre) of hard liquor, the equivalent of 1.35 US fluid ounces (or a little more than a typical 1-oz. shot), can increase the risk of an acute attack......

Like Tracy Morgan on "30 Rock," we try to live every week like it's Shark Week. We don't, however, live every week like it's Shark Fin Soup Week. In today's Los Angeles Times, Jonathan Gold pens an op-ed supporting the passage of the California Shark Protection Act, which would prohibit......

Though it's still surrounded by a chain-link fence, the Chick-fil-A at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue is getting close to completion. Checking in (again) with the chief chickeneers at the company's HQ, we're told it's set for a mid- to late September opening. As soon as we......