Elina Shatkin

Summer is the season of food festivals. Whether it's beer, pancakes or food trucks, this is the time of year we line up (or sit down) at weekend events for samples of exotic and exciting foods. Unfortunately, some of us don't quite know how to behave in situations with other......

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour, our favorite place to eat a 50-scoop sundae served by teenagers in pinstriped vests and fake straw boaters, is expanding. Farrell's yesterday announced it will open two new Southland locations, one in Brea and one in Rancho Cucamonga. The ice cream chain that once boasted locations......

Korean BBQ Cook-Off Sample the best Korean barbecue from dozens of local Koreatown restaurants and vendors. The third annual cook-off features an Orion Choco Pie eating contest, a craft beer and Korean wine garden and a contest (judged by our own Jonathan Gold) in which chefs battle for the title......

They were originally going to call it Vagina Dentata or maybe Wild Mustache Rides, but these ad wizards decided to forgo cleverness for shock value. They simply named their new energy drink Pussy. From the website: The name Pussy shocks and demands attention - that's the point. Inhibition is a......

Waterloo & City chef/partner Brendan Collins is branching out. The British-born chef known for his "meat on meat crime" and his Waterloo partner, Carolos Tomazos, have teamed with Hotel Erwin's Mark and Erwin Sokol to open a Larry's (@larrysvenice), a casual neighborhood eatery where none of the dishes cost more......

You won't find traditional pork carnitas at MexiKosher, the newest eatery to debut along L.A.'s booming "kosher corridor." Opened last month during the 4th of July weekend, MexiKosher, which keeps Kehilla Kosher, claims it's the first Mexican kosher restaurant in all of Los Angeles. The menu runs to Mexican culinary......

More details are emerging about yesterday morning's raid on Rawesome Foods, a members-only raw food collective whose owner was arrested and jailed for the heinous crime of peddling raw milk. Most absurd and appalling is the fact that the raid was the result of a year-long undercover operation conducted by......

Milk, gallon after gallon of it, was poured down the drain today after an early morning raid on two of Southern California's most prominent raw milk providers. This morning at 7:15 a.m., officers raided Rawesome Foods, a "members only" raw foods club on Rose Avenue in Venice, arrested the store's......

The mechanism that "turns on" taste cells (i.e. the lightning quick chain of events in which our brains process and respond to the foods we put on our tongues) is fairly well understood, at least for sweet, umami and bitter tastes. Scientists still don't have a clear understanding of what......