Elina Shatkin

Chef/restaurateur Gino Angelini will open a new restaurant in the old Hamburger Hamlet space in West Hollywood. The project doesn't have a name yet, but it's scheduled for a fall 2012 opening. The design is "rustic Tuscan farmhouse." The lunch menu will feature artisan pizzas, pastas, salads and entrées, while......

Here's comedian Patton Oswalt crashing a chat with Harlan Ellison at Cinefamily. The brilliant, irascible sci-fi writer known for his rants (our favorite: "Pay the Writer") is there to discuss the limited-edition re-release of The Glass Teat, his collected writings on television. When Oswalt hijacks the interview, it veers to......

As the restaurant industry's busiest and most profitable day of the year (Valentine's Day) approaches, ROC has released two reports: a study challenging the idea that restaurants can succeed only by keeping labor costs low and a Diners' Guide spotlighting restaurants that aim for sustainability -- not just on the......

You're only two pages in when Jean-Marie Gallois, the hero of Idwal Jones' 1945 novel High Bonnet: A Novel of Epicurean Adventures, is seduced away from a life at sea and into a life spent behind the stoves. Blame it on the peddler traversing the Toulon wharf with a basket......

Cafe Dulce gets plenty of attention for its pourover LAMILL coffee but rarely does a place with such refined and precious caffeine offerings (we're big fans of the cold-brewed ice coffee), deign to try its hand at something as pedestrian as a doughnut. Located in the center of Japanese Village......

There are already a few good reasons to pledge to KCRW ("Good Food" -- hint, hint). Here's one more: KCRW is asking those who donate to the station during its Winter Pledge Drive to consider donating an additional 40 meals to the L.A. Regional Food Bank instead of requesting a......

Earlier this month we reported that Mac & Cheeza was on the verge of closing after a dispute with their landlord in the Chapman flats. Sad but true: The DTLA shrine to mac 'n cheese will close after this weekend. While owner Larkin Mackey, who also owns the more formal......

Once you've worked your way through every fiery iteration of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, Takis, Quezas, Sabritones and Dorito's Flamas; of every weird British "crisp" flavored with pickles, ketchup or Worcestershire; of every gourmet potato chip redolent with olive oil, roasted garlic and garden herbs, there's an inescapable truth: Junk food......

Recently reopening after an extensive renovation, Water Grill also has a new face behind the stoves: executive chef Damon Gordon. He takes over the kitchen of the posh seafood restaurant after 16 months of musical chairs. Longtime chef David LeFevre, who left in September 2010 to open MB Post, was......