Elina Shatkin

Some of the art currently on display at Corey Helford looks so good, you might be tempted to peel it off the wall and eat it. Maniacal Jell-O molds tromping through the blood of their deceased compatriots. A flirty cowgirl with a glistening Jolly Rancher for a head. A translucent......

It's not a huge deal, but it's something. The Patty Wagon food truck (@pattywagonla) is celebrating the official start of summer by giving a free classic mini-cheeseburger to the first 25 people who show up at each stop (they have two trucks, and each makes a stop for lunch and......

Manhattan Beach Creamery is a pleasant neighborhood ice cream store, stocked with as much candy as it is ice cream. The white leather, half-shell chairs, halfway between Louis XIV and Philippe Starck, are a good spot to watch surfers trudge to and from the pier or Saturday Night or Saturday......

Because running one successful beer bar (Tony's Darts Away), working to open another (Mohawk Bend, delayed from its June 28th opening) and helping to organize a roving beer pop-up (ColLAboration) doesn't keep him busy enough, Tony Yanow is now launching his own brewery. Come September, Golden Road Brewing in Atwater......

Bacon on your okonomiyaki? Now, it can be done. This weekend, the Glowfish Truck (@glowfishtruck), which had done a couple test runs last week, officially rolled out, sporting a Japanese menu engineered to suit street food tastes. Katsu, teppanyaki and okonomiyaki, large thick pancakes made of cabbage, yam and whatever......

Two openings to report. Today, the awkwardly named 3Twenty Wine Lounge on La Brea (just south of 3rd) officially opens to the public. The owner, Edgar Poureshagh, is a former wine rep, and the chef, Michelle Salah, comes from the Spotted Pig in New York. Look for lots of Enomatic......

A spectacular ice cream float doesn't cure the pain of existence, but it goes a long way toward soothing the ache. Yesterday, while Leo Bloom was munching on mutton kidneys and we were sorting through the detritus of a life half-lived (that'd be our own), we wandered into Jerry's Soda......

Craig Thornton wants you to know that this is definitely NOT a pop-up. Nevertheless, he's bringing his micro-restaurant Wolvesmouth to Beer Belly, the recently opened Koreatown beer bar. Reigning in his epic tendencies, Thornton is making a five-course, $50, prix fixe meal. The main protein is lamb. You can buy......

Sugar and spice and everything nice, that's pretty much what goes into the genteel flavors at N'ice Cream, a local shop with three westside outlets: one on Abbot Kinney, another on Ocean Front Walk and a third in the recently opened in L.A.'s Ferry Building imitation, Santa Monica Marketplace......

Checking in with Tender Greens, the locally-based salad chain continues to expand with two locations opening this summer. The first, in Pasadena, will open the week of July 7th, pending final inspections. The second, just around the corner from the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, should open the second......