Elina Shatkin

What's going on at Café Bolivar? The charming South American cafe on Ocean Park Blvd. in Santa Monica reportedly experienced a change in ownership this week, leaving many employees unhappy and one of the cafe's former owners furious......

Freebirds, known for its 7-pound Super Monster burrito, will open its second L.A.-area location on May 20th. Unlike the first one, which opened back in January near USC and drew heavily on the university's students for its customer base, the newest Freebirds is going into The Shoppes at Marina Del......

The Papaya King truck (@papayakingla) is a temporal thing, existing only until the storefront at the corner of Hollywood and Wilcox opens on May 18th. But, as promised a couple weeks ago, we wanted to take a look at both ends of the NY/LA hot dog/ice cream exchange. Roaming town......

Try not to laugh so hard you squirt soda out of your nose. Actually, it promises to be a very adult evening at tonight's fundraiser for The Groundlings, the iconic LA improv troupe that launched tons of comedic talent: Will Ferrell, Maya Rudolph, Phil Hartman, fried pie-loving Kathy Griffin, Will......

The last time we got around to reviewing Caña's seasonal cocktail menu, it was about two weeks before the season ended. You can no longer order the Misti Dawn Swizzle, our favorite temporal libation unless, just maybe, you ask oh-so-sweetly or you happen to be porn star Misti Dawn. Since......

In most classes, you don't get to drink vodka and eat caviar. In Caviar 101 at Petrossian, you do nothing but. Launched in April, the class, which occurs the first Thursday of every month, includes a tasting of three caviars and two roes led by house expert Christopher Klapp. In......

Instead of staying open for lunch and closing for Monday dinner, Elements Kitchen will flip the schedule in the name of charity. Beginning this month, the Pasadena close for weekday lunch but open for dinner on Mondays, with the evening's proceeds going to local charities. The first recipient of "Making......

Andy Dick's been arrested, again. Not at some Hollywood hot spot thick with desperation and aspiring starlets. At Marie Callender's. In Temecula. Riverside County Sheriff's deputies were called to the Marie Callender's restaurant on Rancho California Road, reports KTLA, where they found the 44-year-old comedian displaying "symptoms associated with alcohol......

No matter what MLB strips from Frank McCourt -- his ego, his baseball team, his dignity (actually, he did that all on his own) -- there's one thing they can never take away: the plaque bearing his name at the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Company. At the recently opened Beverly......

Here's an early afternoon pick-me-up. This past Sunday, Pete Licata of Honolulu Coffee Company beat out dozens of competitors to win the United States Barista Championships. The man who who won the 2011 Southwest Regional Barista Championship will go on to compete in the World Barista Championship, which will be......