Elina Shatkin

Hip, hip, hooray! Angelenos no longer have to drive to Alhambra or Garden Grove to get their fix of cheap seafood. Today at 3 p.m., The Boiling Crab opens its first location in Koreatown (in the Brown Derby Plaza, to be precise). That's very close to The HMS Bounty and......

The best thing about the goat's blood Jell-o at Westminster's Binh Dan is its color, a red so shocking it might have been peeled off a William Eggleston print. The second best thing is watching diners compose their faces and suppress their gag-reflexes before tasting their first bite. The creative......

Between Proof Bakery's strata and Black Cat's signature chocolate-and-cream cheese muffin (and even Sprinkles' new German chocolate cupcake), our de facto theme last week was baked goods. One more and we promise to stop... for a while. Almond croissants are particular passion of mine. I order them in bakeries and......

Violence is nothing new in the food truck scene, where payoffs to local thugs and vicious truck vs. truck fighting is just the cost of doing business for some vendors. What's rare is when any of this violence actually makes its way into the legal system. Reputed 18th Street gang......

The concept of serving chili -- liquidy, meaty, messy -- from a truck initially seemed odd, but it turns out to be perfect truck food. It can be cooked in advance without losing its appeal. In fact, chili tends to taste better after it's left to soak for a day......

So what did Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés love eating while they were in Los Angeles? Umami Burger and Kogi. Maybe other things too, but we didn't have a chance to find out. Near the end of the talk, they took questions from the audience. After the......

Barista extraoridinaire Nik Krankl, who just won the Intelligentsia barista championship for wholesalers in Chicago, will be showing off his steaming, swirling and pulling talents as guest barista at Gelato Bar in Gelato Bar's Studio City (4342 1/2 Tujunga Ave. Studio City, CA 91604). Pop in if you want to......

What is the Black Cat Bakery & Cafe trying to pull? Their Black Cat "muffin" sits innocently among the rest of their baked goods, looking for all the world like a typical muffin. Looks can be deceiving. A black hole of dark chocolate with a tangy sour cream center, it's......

With the debut of its BK Stuffed Steakhouse Burger, Burger King hopes to achieve what Domino's et. al. accomplished with stuffed crust pizza: Shove cheap extra calories into its core product to make it exponentially more fattening and, hence, more appealing. The Stuffed Steakhouse Burger is filled with bits of......