Elina Shatkin

Never mind the Flying Pink Pig's metaphorical sausage party. Grindhaus will be an actual one. Located in the former Lithium Cafe space in Hollywood, the Grindhaus Sausage Shop is scheduled to soft-open (ahem) next week. The quartet of owners, two chefs and two restaurant managers from Philadelphia, also plan to......

Since pork is "the other white meat," what does that make horse? Once a staple of the pioneer diet and a source of nourishment during wartime, horse meat may return to American tables......

Parking has been the red herring brought up over and over during the still-simmering fight between the LA Film School and the Hollywood Farmers Market. We've said it before, and we'll say it again: This is NOT a minor scuffle about parking. This is an all-out land-use war, and the......

Italian gelato chain Grom, which already has three shops in New York City, opens its first West Coast location this Sunday, January 9th. Located in the Malibu Country Mart, Grom offers small-batch, seasonal gelatos and sorbets. January flavors range from standards like vanilla, pistachio and chocolate hazelnut to rarer combinations......

Sloppy seconds are on the house at The Flying Pink Pig, perhaps the first porn movie to try to cash in on the upscale food truck trend. "Food porn" takes on a much more literal meaning in this X-rated flick with plenty of lengua and more than a few tacos,......

La Cucina Italia last week named Gregory Slattery as its new publisher. Slattery previously oversaw First for Women, Woman's World, Soap's in Depth and ID Magazine for Bauer Media Group, reports MediaPost. Slattery takes over for 76-year-old George Hirsch, a publishing industry veteran (and avid marathoner) whose five-decade history in......

As if we needed another reason to avoid fast food: the chemicals used to prevent grease from leaking through fast food wrappers are being transferred to food and ingested by human beings. Various studies (mostly on animals) have linked a class of chemicals known as perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) to infertility,......

Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan will shutter his two Pacific Palisades restaurants, The Oak Room and The Village Pantry, at the end of January. Riordan operates the two eateries, both on Swarthmore Avenue, in partnership with his daughter. Riordan also owns The Original Pantry Cafe and Riordan's Tavern in......

Now that we've examined the Top 10 Bad Food Trends of 2010, we're looking to the year ahead. As expected...bacon in everything. DIY molecular gastronomy. Gentrified hot dogs. The growing popularity of Korean food as it continues assimilating into the American palate (just as Italian, Chinese and Mexican cuisines previously......

To the delight of local hop heads, Los Angeles is finally becoming a beer town. Maybe it always has been, but in typical Angeleno style: springing up haphazardly, secreted in obscure niches, resistant to easy discovery. Good beer can always be found for those willing to put in the effort......