Elina Shatkin

It's not so amaaaaaazing that National Donut Day is almost upon us. It occurs every year on the first Friday in June. What is amazing is that our very favorite Tennesseaan-turned-Angeleno, Huell Howser, is celebrating the big day with a trio of donut-themed episodes on his show, California's Gold......

Ginichi Y. Ohira, 50, the Gardena seafood vendor who imported endangered whale meat from Tokyo and sold it to Southern California sushi restaurants, including the now-closed The Hump, pleaded guilty plea on Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court to a misdemeanor charge of knowingly selling a marine mammal product for......

In the six chilly months since Scoops Westside opened, the strip mall ice cream shop has become something of a hub for West LA's food bloggerati. Proprietor Matt Kang (a.k.a. Mattatouille) knows his audience, and he does a good job playing to them. There's Intelligentsia coffee at the ready, weighed......

The much delayed Mohawk Bend, the new Echo Park restaurant and beer bar whose "dork" burger (duck + pork) we previewed back in March, will finally open on June 28th. Fittingly for local beer baron Tony Yanow (Tony's Darts Away), there will be a whopping 65 beers on tap. Executive......

We were once dumb enough to ask about the Cleveland steamer, so "meat purse" just sounds to us like slang for something awful, but one budding designer is making the term a stylish reality. As an homage to Coco Chanel, Pasadena Art Center College of Design student Nancy Wu crafted......

It's a little late for National Hamburger Day, but it's never too late in our book. From June 6th through June 12th, Eagle Rock pastrami haven and burger barn The Oinkster is hosting its own Burger Week. They're honoring the mighty meat with a burger-a-day tribute to their favorite local......

Plenty of people asked how we planned to follow up our 30 Burgers in 30 Days "triumph" (read: reason we no longer fit into our favorite jeans). We considered several options: tacos, tamales, calves' brains. All of those would have been lovely, but for summer, we wanted something cool and......

His life's work reads like a chapter in The Fattening of America. Every year, Chicken Charlie a.k.a. Charlie Boghosian, the fried food maestro of Southern California's county fair circuit, invents newer and ever more gluttonous deep-fried creations. His two biggest sellers are deep-fried avocados and deep-fried frogs' legs, though he......

You already know about the new Bloody Mary menu, complete with foie, bacon and even watermelon, that launches this weekend at Fig, but there are a couple new cocktail menus to try......

Tomorrow, May 28th, is the best holiday ever: National Hamburger Day. Actually, according to some calendars, so is July 28th. We're like the half-Jewish, half-Christian kid who gets to do Christmas and Hanukkah. We celebrate all burger holidays......