Elina Shatkin

Bloggers, beware. Writing a bad review of Benihana could get you sued for $18,000 -- at least if you live in Kuwait. Mark Makhou, a Lebanese national working in Kuwait, wrote a fairly mild but definitely negative review of his nearby Benihana branch on his popular local blog 248am.com: Would......

Whether it was the angry Ewoks of middle earth sharing a Coke with a fire-breathing dragon or Adrien Brody crooning to bar full of weepy women (nice to see him finally bouncing back from that Oscar win), this year's bunch of Super Bowl spots was one of the most pitiful......

Sitting at the windowside counter at Rounds Premium Burgers in West Hollywood, watching drunk and soon-to-be-drunk clubgoers flit from bar to bar, we couldn't stop thinking about buns. Specifically, brioche buns, the de facto frame for every upscale burger, often lending them an unearned gravitas. If these gentrified burger chains......

Watching him tease, entice and cajole passersby to try food from his Ragin Cajun truck (@cajunonwheels), it's hard to believe that Stephen Domingue ever had a problem with self-promotion. After being eliminated on the second episode of cross-country reality show "The Great Food Truck Race," ostensibly because he failed to......

Last week we took a peek into Sotto's Neapolitan pizza oven, which was imported brick by brick from Naples and in the middle of being hand-built by third-generation oven-builder Stefano Ferrara. (It's one of less than 10 hand-built Ferrara ovens in the United States.) Ferrara finished the oven and flew......

Not so long ago, The Counter was a simple but beloved neighborhood joint specializing in high-quality, bespoke burgers. Well before the anti-carb craze, The Counter was semi-famous for its "burger in a bowl," a burger served on top of salad greens instead of a bun. Burger King claims you can......

Why pore over Jonathan Gold's vast back-catalog of the best Chinese dishes in the San Gabriel Valley, forever searching for the best Sichuanese dan dan mian or the perfect niu ruo shao bing, when you could celebrate Chinese New Year at Panda Express? Still, a deal is a deal......

What hath Kogi wrought -- aside from a million imitations of its Korean fusion taco? How about a worldwide phenomenon pairing two of L.A.'s most ubiquitous immigrant cuisines with the accessibility of fast-food. Yet, the Korean fusion trend hasn't made its way to that other American classic: the burger. We......

With our three-month probationary period successfully completed and our health care benefits starting today (welcome to the real world, Rep. Andy Harris, you whiny little hypocrite), we decided it's the perfect time to launch 30 Burgers in 30 Days, an initiative we're pretty sure will hasten the end of our......

Since we last reported on the "Chick-fil-A hates gay people" kerfuffle, complete with a homespun video from company president Dan Cathy, those pesky gay groups won't stop yammering about "rights" and "equality." This is really getting old -- and possibly hurting Chick-fil-A's image as the Southern fast food chain expands......