Elina Shatkin

The surrounding 7th + Fig shopping center is in the middle of a major revamp but its flagship steakhouse, Morton's, remains as traditional as ever. This is the kind of place where starry-eyed creatives don't just dream about midday three-martini benders, this is the kind of place where businessmen actually......

In this second installment of our pictorial how-to series (in the first, we made kimchi with chef EJ Jeong of Cham Korean Bistro in Pasadena), we visit chef Steven Mary of Pinot Bistro, who teaches us to make the studio City's restaurant's recipe for rillette. Rillette isn't as scary as......

Everything else at Rustic Canyon is sleek and minimal. Small plates of braised vegetables and cured olives. A market-driven menu that changes about as often as most of us change our shoes. Chic yet homey decor. But when it comes to Rustic Canyon's burger ($18) -- so popular it's always......

Pal Cabron, which recently hosted former Bastide chef Joseph Mahon and sommelier David Haskell's restaurant-surfing Magnum pop-up, will bring chef Diego Hernandez all the way from Baja for a three-night stint. Hernandez, who made his LA debut in October at Test Kitchen, normally cooks at La Villa del Valle Country......

There's no burger on the menu at Bar Bouchon. If you ask politely, however, they'll probably say, "We can make that happen." The burger ($21) comes from upstairs at the more staid Bouchon, where it's officially served only on the lunch menu. If you ask for it at dinner, they......

Thanks to Charlie Sheen, #tigerblood isn't just a Twitter meme, it's a condiment. Around 2 p.m. today, the former "Two and a Half Men" star rolled into Sherman Oaks hot dog stand The Infield, where he Tweeted about the daily deal: The Charlie Dog, a $5 hot dog served with......

This Saturday night from 5 to 10 p.m., downtown L.A. wine bar Corkbar celebrates two successful years by offering a small menu of $2 tasting plates. The anniversary menu from chef Albert Aviles includes pork sausage sliders on a pretzel bun, mac 'n cheese with pasilla chiles and pork tenderloin......

When we last checked in on Sotto and its elaborate, hand-built pizza oven made from Vesuvian soil, the Italian restaurant was scheduled to open on the ground floor of the former Test Kitchen space in late February. That date came in went. The latest news is that Sotto, pending final......

Aside from an ironclad stomach, what does it take to judge a coffee contest? We don't know, but we're about to find out. The Southwest Regional Barista Championship happens this weekend, and for the first time, members of the media (i.e. us) have been invited to serve as judges. Apparently,......