Jessica Ritz

The next Hallmark holiday is almost here. And although two more weeks remain until Valentine's Day, remember it IS the most popular dining out holiday of the year. If you don't want to impress someone special with your stellar cooking and cleaning skills, here are a few places in various......

Talk of a Hollywood Whole Foods that had people buzzing a few years back eventually fizzled, but ground floor square footage at the brand new W Hollywood at Vine has other food businesses ready for action starting today next to the cleaned up Red Line station entrance......

Have you tried pouring gigantic stockpots of hot molten butter and water boiled with sugar and cornstarch onto silicone baking mats, then quickly smoothing it out to form uniform sheets of thin, crunchy, rich sweetness? Needless to say, it's an extremely hot and potentially messy task. Fortunately Max Lesser of......

Until a major Cézanne retrospective or a survey of Dutch still life paintings comes to local museums, the best dose of foodie art is on view now and lasts only through the end of the week. Wayne Thiebaud: 70 Years of Painting at the Pasadena Museum of California Art closes......

Fruit isn't at the forefront of SoCal denizens' minds as we confront the wind, rain, and relative cold. But TreePeople is always looking forward to sunnier times ahead. Today at the L.A. Medical Center Farmers' Market at Barnsdall Art Park, the local tree-peddling organization will give away 150 free fruit......

Start putting your restaurant wish list together and get ready to dial reservation lines. The restaurants participating in the winter '10 round of dineLA have been announced and getting all your ducks (hopefully confit) in a row to take advantage of the semi-annual deal can be a frenzied process. Restaurant......

Because we can't get too much of a good thing, here's the second installment of our quest for the city's most outstanding fries. This list (organized alphabetically) includes the pure, the gently garnished, and the heavily adorned in a world that's a vast, exciting terrain of Kennebec vs. Russet, peanut......

What would Henry Huntington think of the newest tenant to occupy one of the storefronts in his Pacific Electric Building? Manhattan-based Babycakes opened shop on the 6th Street side of the 1905 landmark this past Sunday near Cole's. The menu of vegan and food allergy-sensitive baked treats are hardly the......

UCLA trained architect and designer Alexis Readinger worked for local stars including Kanner Architects, Dodd Mitchell, and Thomas Schoos before branching out on her own with Preen Design. Readinger has since created an eclectic portfolio of hospitality, retail, residential, and commercial projects. She's currently re-envisioning the expansive former Citrus/Meson G/Red......

Los Angeles's urban inferiority complex has been seriously challenged in light of recent food news: we are a terrific deli town. Or so claims David Sax, author of Save the Deli, the website and book that just hit stores. Sax will be here next week to discuss all things deli......