Elina Shatkin

First, Santa Monica seafood restaurant I. Cugini announced it will close in June after over 20 years in business. Now, two of the oldest seafood companies in Los Angeles will become one. 72-year-old Santa Monica Seafood has bought its chief rival, acquiring the customer base, corporate name, inventory and other......

In addition to the new four-category format at the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational, this year's event will feature a bonus for one lucky winner: Their sandwich will be sold at Mendocino Farms and the money will go to charity. Company founder Mario Del Pero will serve as an executive judge......

Papa John's, which has been trying to woo American consumers with a campaign that essentially says "Our old toppings sucked. Try our new ones," has taken their oddball promotional schemes to the next level. Just in time for the royal wedding, the Kentucky-based pizza chain commissioned a portrait of Prince......

We already know it's good for making rum. Now, it turns out that sugar cane may help slow the pace of climate change. Score another victory for science. Scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology studied satellite images stretching over 733,000 square miles of Brazil, where approximately 25%......

In-N-Out officials touched off a furor earlier this week when they tore down their Baldwin Park location, which many believed was the chain's oldest surviving restaurant. The Baldwin Park In-N-Out was demolished right under the nose of city officials who thought they were working with the company to preserve the......

Los Angeles now has its first all-kosher wine and liquor store. Located in the heart of Pico Boulevard's "kosher corridor," The Cask, which we spotted in late March, opened quietly last week -- just in time for Passover. Perfect since the traditional seder requires Jews to consume four glasses of......

The new spring cocktail menus are dropping at bars all around town. Playa, Rivera, Cana, Villains, to name just few. Coming up on its one-year anniversary, Silver Lake's Thirsty Crow hasn't overhauled its menu in the name of seasonality, but bar manager Cooper Gillespie has committed what amounts to heresy......

There are few acts so graceless as eating a bacon-wrapped hot dog from Bowers Gourmet Sausages (@BowersSausages). While Los Angeles has no shortage of sausage trucks (Dogzilla, Dogtown Dogs, Germany's Famous Bratwurst, Grindhaus and Let's Be Frank, to name a few), none seem as determined as Bowers to turn the......