Elina Shatkin

In Italian, the word ubriaca means "drunk," which is what you may be, if you sample all the wines on tap at LA's newest pop-up, Ubriaca LA (@ubriacaLA). A wandering wine bar hosted by Domaine LA's Jill Bernheimer and her cohort Whitney Adams (Brunellos Have More Fun), each event focuses......

After two months of amassing donations in five-gallon jars at its dozens of locations (including 21 in Southern California), bánh mì juggernaut Lee's Sandwiches collected over $18,134 to help victims of the Japanese tsunami and earthquake. The company kicked in another $15,000, bringing the total to $33,134, and donated it......

What's there left to say about Fosselman's? The quaint Alhambra ice cream shop has been written up everywhere and routinely makes local and international "best of" list. Deservedly so. Foseelman's is a 92-year-old throwback to a decade -- make that a century -- when every suburban strip mall from Portland,......

We've already mentioned tonight's special National Donut Day menu, an annual tradition at Grace and now at BLD. But we can't write about donuts and bacon all the time. 5. Salad Days: To celebrate its three-year anniversary, fast-casual salad chain. Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop will be giving diners 50% off beer......

Sometimes, "tempura" is just another way to say "we deep-fry everything." That's the situation at the OG Tempura Truck (@ogtempura), where crisp apple rounds, delicate squash blossoms, tough hunks of flank steak marinated in sake and miso, turkey wrapped in bacon and, of course, the standard lineup of vegetables and......

Remember when a Du-par's donut was coated in an inch-thick raft of frosting, spread, it seemed, by a very generous hand? Neither do we, but our friends who grew up in Los Angeles do, and they still talk about it with reverence. In the absence of that, here are five......

Turning swords into plowshares is all well and good, but MI6 has a better idea: turning bombs into cupcakes. In a slick bit of counter-terrorism that also reads like the plot of a Kate Hudson rom-com,* the British spy agency got hold of Al Qaeda's first English language publication, Inspire......

Dorado's Ceviche Bar, which only opened in Monterey Park in early May, has been closed by the health department, but not for (un)sanitary reasons. The restaurant was operating without a public health permit in violation of section 8.04.932 of the city code, according to the LA County Health Department sign......

On the outskirts of Culver City, far from the bright, shiny brasseries on Washington Boulevard and the machinations on the Sony lot, there's a small, stunningly colored ice cream shop dishing out a fantastic selection of gelados, paletas and jugos. It's concealed, as so many of these gems are, in......

When he's not eating strombolis the size of Howitzers or wolfing down enough nachos to make a frat house puke, Adam Richman is just a nice (though not so little) Jewish boy from the Brooklyn projects, trying to find his identity with the help of the Beastie Boys......