Farley Elliott

There are no shortages of coffee shops in this town, but finding one with ample seating, quality brews, free WiFi and parking is certainly a rarity. But that's exactly what BrewWell on 8th in Koreatown offers. The glass-walled latte house is actually attached to the Assi Supermarket just east of......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mian, cups of boba and......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mian, cups of boba and......

Only at a place called Fat Sal's, which has been open in Hollywood for about a month, would it be a reasonable expectation to order a sandwich that has an entire other meal stuffed inside it. That sandwich, known as the Fat Jerry, offers a full plate of bacon and......

There's something very satisfying about a warm, hearty meal to start your day off right, especially if you ended your evening on a particularly boozy note. In Los Angeles, that can often mean one thing: breakfast burritos. Breakfast burritos are a divisive topic. Some folks can't even agree on the......

There is a Compton strip mall, not far from Kevin Bludso's ash-black smokers, where birria de chivo is served. Of course, it's not hard to find Mexican food in Compton, or Central American food for that matter. And in a long, squat strip mall just off the 710 freeway on......

We're currently in the throes of Shark Week, the annual oceanic nightmare helmed by the Discovery Channel. The popular programming features non-stop shark action, with documentaries, hyper-stylized action flicks, robots that follow a 17-foot great white shark around and a late night talk show devoted to all things king of......

Check out our annual restaurant issue, which this year celebrates desserts, out this Thursday, August 8. You may not immediately categorize certain desserts as gender-specific, but there's no denying that some after-dinner delights are manlier than others. Sure, the occasional red velvet cupcake will put a smile on the face......

Not all strip malls are created equal. Some massive operations feature handfuls of possible eateries, from vegan home cooking to coffee beans roasted in-house. Others, like the diminutive strip mall on the corner of Fletcher Drive and the last remaining dregs of Silver Lake Boulevard, don't even catch your eye......

Anyone out looking for a bit of Sichuan tingle (minds out of the gutter, please) has already heard of Chengdu Taste, the recently opened San Gabriel Valley restaurant that is awash in tongue-numbing peppercorns. Formerly the Golden Shanghai on Valley Blvd., Chengdu Taste moved into the neighborhood swiftly, bringing a......