Farley Elliott

Finally, Los Angeles has its first vegan restaurant. After all this time! Well, it's easy to get that impression anyway, considering the packed-to-the-rafters opening weekend that Gracias Madre just experienced. As the Mexican food wing of popular make-good-choices eatery Cafe Gratitude, Gracias Madre's Melrose Avenue opening had been hotly anticipated......

If you'll pardon the foul language for just a moment, there's something important that needs to be said: We f*cking did it. Guys, WE DID IT. After years of monkeying around in space and sending James Cameron to the depths of the ocean to find his old goatee, we humans...

Last time we poked around inside Pork Belly's Sandwich Shop in Venice, the namesake slabs of swine were winning over customers in the Abbot Kinney location, even if some people couldn't handle all that fat. But owner Jon Swire has always been looking beyond his diminutive Venice space, with an......

Is your 2014 already off to a conspicuous start? It's not really your fault; "science" decided to put New Year's day on Wednesday this year, which kinda threw off the whole weekend-party-balance and has made these first few days of 2014 a real wasteland of productivity and lost resolutions. But......

A few months ago, hanging out with your family during the holidays seemed like a wonderful idea. Aunt Whoever would make that thing she makes, your other Uncle Whatshisface would fall asleep in a rocking chair and fart so loud it made a cat hiss; everything would be great. Then,......

When we last left Plan Check in mid-June, the popular Sawtelle home of chef Ernesto Uchimura was busy building out their next iteration on Fairfax. Well, after the tenderest two-day soft open (République, by contrast, was soft open for somewhere between two weeks and a decade), Plan Check Fairfax is......

It's finally here. The food collaboration you didn't know you were missing out on -- streetwear and chicken & waffles -- is hitting L.A., thanks to clothing brand Popular Demand. The young and hungry (in more ways than one) L.A.-based streetwear label, known in, let's say, more youthful circles as......

There may be a few different words in that headline that you don't understand -- at least when combined together. Latke turkey dog? Thankgivukkah?! So, first, a quick primer on the latter. Thanksgivukkah is a screwball name given to this year's exceedingly rare cultural holiday mash-up, where the annual Gregorian......