Elina Shatkin

Garage Pizza of Silver Lake is expanding. The better-than-average neighborhood pizza joint is looking to open a second location at 7th and Main streets in downtown LA. Owner Jason "Jay" Batten is deep into the revamping of the existing space but isn't close to setting an opening date. (Once again,......

This weekend, Tender Greens in Hollywood will kick off its first Sunday beer garden, a monthly event with all-you-can-eat roasted meat and all-you-can-drink craft beer for a flat fee of $35. (We had a chance to preview the event when the chefs did a test-run with dueling roasted goats a......

With news that Coolhaus will launch a truck in New York (and open a storefront in Culver City), while Papaya King rolls out a Los Angeles truck (@papayakingla) on Monday (and will open a brick-and-mortar location in Hollywood), it's time to see whether it's a fair cultural exchange. Who's getting......

It's a good thing Cadbury only releases their signature Easter candy for a few months each year. Eating an entire Cadbury Creme Egg is the confectionary equivalent of shotgunning a Monte Cristo sandwich -- if it were made with foie gras instead of ham. Halfway through the gooey granular "yolk"......

As the 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational draws nearer and National Grilled Cheese Month draw to a close, you can still get in on the action. There are perennial favorites like Clementine and Campanile, but this year, for one week only -- this week* -- several local restaurants are......

In the first part of our interview with J. Wilson, the Iowa man who's drinking nothing but beer for Lent, and chronicling it on his blog, Diary of a Part-Time Monk, Wilson talked about why someone who's not Catholic would take on the very Catholic tradition of fasting for Lent,......

Give the Gift of Food for Japan... by drinking cocktails. Next week, Umamimart, Eveleigh and Prism are joining forces to host a benefit for Second Harvest Japan. The evening kicks off with a rooftop cocktail party at Prism hosted by Yamazaki whiskey. (Snacks by Eveleigh and desserts by Fruit &......

Millions of people the world over are giving up something for Lent, but few are doing it as publicly or as interestingly as J. Wilson, who's consuming nothing but beer for the 46 days leading up to Easter. The 38-year-old Iowa native, who lives eight miles outside of Corning with......

Though they're officially retired from competition, Hot Knives cheese and beer barons Alex Brown and Evan George will host/incite a fierce new throwdown at this weekend's Grilled Cheese Invitational -- a brutal grilled cheese Thunderdome in which two chefs enter, one chef leaves. While the main competition features a new......