Elina Shatkin

It's Memorial Day weekend. You've got three days off. (We do!) Here are a few ways you might want to celebrate. Turn the page for 5 food and beer events held over the long holiday weekend........

Grindhaus is putting the brakes on one of its enterprises. After this weekend, the Grindhaus truck (@grindhausLA), which launched not long after the brick-and-mortar shop opened in January, will stop rolling it announced yesterday via Twitter. The East Hollywood storefront will remain open for business......

Momed, known for its killer duck shawarma, dense house-made halvah bars and strong cups of Turkish coffee, is celebrating its one-year anniversary. Through the end of May, the sleek, year-old "modern Mediterranean" restaurant is selling its Turkish lattes for only $1 and discounting all its Intelligentsia espresso drinks to half-off......

So Harold Camping's prophesied apocalypse never materialized. First, he was "flabbergasted." (Because it's devastating when millions of people don't perish.) Then, he backpedaled, taking to the airwaves of Family Radio to explain that May 21st was an invisible, "spiritual" rapture. The end of the world will actually occur on October......

Ken Yoshitake is always looking for coffee's sweet spot, the perfect brew that draws out the full complexity of the beans without the drink turning bitter. With the second location of his downtown L.A. coffee shop Spring For Coffee, he may have found it. Opened earlier this month (May 8th......

Like the best chefs, Neil Strawder commands his kitchen with confidence and ease, only his kitchen is a big-ass, brand-spanking-new trailer, a movable feast of barbecued ribs, rib tips, brisket, turkey and pastrami. And he does not sell chicken. "Why do I need to do chicken?" he asks. "Everyone else......

The first outpost of Stacked, a new technology-driven fast-casual chain, opens at noon next Tuesday, May 31st. The full name is "Stacked: food well built," and the concept is customization. Guests order their own hamburgers, pizza, salads and sausages via iPads mounted at each table, choosing everything: buns, toppings, sauces......