Elina Shatkin

A dish at O Bar.; Credit: Anne Fishbein

O Bar Closing in West Hollywood

Elina Shatkin
After eight years in business, popular West Hollywood restaurant O Bar will close. Located on Santa Monica Boulevard near Crescent Heights in the heart of West Hollywood, the popular Mediterranean restaurant will close after Sunday, July 3. It will be replaced by a new concept from O Bar owners Michael......
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30 Scoops in 30 Days: Bulgarini (Day 19)

Elina Shatkin
There's a reason Bulgarini Gelato is a perennial topper on Best Gelato lists, our own and others. While other gelaterias do a superb job of capturing the essence of a particular flavor, Bulgarini somehow captures the flavor itself. Nowhere is this more true than their pistachio gelato......
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30 Scoops in 30 Days: Bennett's Ice Cream (Day 18)

Elina Shatkin
There's nothing all that special about a frozen banana, but somehow, Bennett's Ice Cream in the Farmers Market at 3rd and Fairfax makes the best one. Maybe it's the chunks of almonds as big as gravel studding the fresh, dark chocolate. Maybe it's the slightly underripe banana, frozen just below......
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Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Farmageddon, Food Trucks, Beer, Oysters

Elina Shatkin
Farmageddon - Movie Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Farmageddon This documentary featuring farmer/activist Joel Salatin focuses on the escalating fight for food rights in America and the suspect motives (can anyone say corporate-driven farm subsidies?) of the government's food safety "experts." When: June 24 - 30 Where: Laemmle's Monica......
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Food Truck Friday: Ta Bom

Elina Shatkin
It's a bit cheeky naming your business "The Bomb," but that's essentially what Brazilian food truck Ta Bom (@ta_bom) has done. The one menu item that lives up to the title is their pastel......
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30 Scoops in 30 Days: GO Burger (Day 17)

Elina Shatkin
You have a straw. GO Burger has a milkshake. You take your straw and drink their milkshake. You drink it up. Then, as you savor it all the way to your car, you realize you may be tipsy. The frothy, cool milkshake you so greedily sucked down, like Daniel Plainview......
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Blogger Jailed Over Bad Beef Noodle Review

Elina Shatkin
We've heard of restaurateurs having hissy fits over bad Yelp reviews and even kicking out newspaper reviewers, but jailing a blogger over a bad review? That would be insane... or would it? A Taiwanese blogger was recently sentenced to 30 days in detention, two years of probation and ordered to......
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Home Chef: Making Perfect Steak Fries with David LeFevre

Elina Shatkin
"How do you feel about the fries at In-N-Out?" asks chef David LeFevre. We wrinkle our nose and wonder how such a good fast-food burger can be accompanied by such awful, soggy, lumpen fries. Fortunately, we're in good company. LeFevre, the longtime Water Grill chef who recently decamped to Manhattan......
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30 Scoops in 30 Days: Carvel 90210 (Day 16)

Elina Shatkin
It has to be the most déclassé shop on Rodeo Drive, but there it is, amid David Yurman tennis bracelets and Christian Dior handbags, buried in the parking structure of an office building dedicated to aesthetic self-improvement and expensive housewares: Carvel......
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30 Scoops in 30 Days: Delicieuse (Day 15)

Elina Shatkin
Delicieuse is plastered with charts and signs extolling the virtues of goat's milk, but we don't seek out ice cream for its curative powers. Nor do we trek to Redondo Beach for Delicieuse's goat's milk ice cream. We come for the incredible sorbets......