Lesley Balla

When we think of The Ramones, we think: spaghetti. You don't? You might now. Last year Marky Ramone, the last living member and former drummer of the legendary punk band, launched his own private-label pasta sauce, and he's shilling it at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills tomorrow. Yes, every......

Five Guys fans, get excited: We just confirmed that the next location opens in Culver City's Westfield Fox Hills mall this Friday at 11 a.m. Unless you live near Cerritos, Carson, Thousand Oaks and other outlying areas, this is huge. For the uninitiated, Five Guys started in Virginia in 1986,......

If you weren't ready to be a Master Food Preserver, or just couldn't get in to the elite canning class, Food Forward has you covered. The non-profit organization that harvests fruit from private gardens and public spaces to give to local food pantries is launching Can It!, a preserving workshop......

According to one Toronto-based Facebook group, today, April 11, is National Poutine Day, and although we're not Canadian, we fully support this idea. The Quebecois dish of fries, cheese curds and gravy is the perfect marriage of salty, meaty flavor and texture, and easily worthy of its own day. And......

Sherman Oaks, get ready for your slice of West Hollywood: Greg Morris' Oak Fire Pizzeria & Pub finally opens to the public tonight. The original Oak Fire opened on La Cienega in 2007, keeping partygoers sated with wood-fired pizzas, salads and afternoon happy hours. With a brick oven instead of......

When Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne opened A.O.C. in 2003, "small plates" wasn't the overused buzzword that it is today. That sort of dining -- noshy and wine-friendly, graze for a few hours, keep the plates coming until we cry uncle -- lends itself to the night, which is one......

For the last two weekends, Michael Bowe has been hosting beer tastings outside of his new Angel City Brewing complex in the Arts District downtown. But this weekend it's the real deal: The official grand opening takes place on Saturday, with a blowout that includes beers, barbecue and live music......

We've come to know David LeFevre for his seafood ways at Water Grill, where he was executive chef for six years. He left last fall to open his own place in the South Bay, Manhattan Beach Post (M.B. Post for short), which should debut next month. But he never promised......

Who said wine tasting had to be full of stuffed shirts? Add a few DJs, a photo booth, and snacks from L.A.'s cool food trucks, and you've got Second Glass's Wine Riot, wine tasting for the iPhone generation. And, yes, there's an app for it, too. "The average wine event......

After Steven Arroyo served chorizo tacos at last summer's East L.A. Meets Napa event, there was a lot of chatter around the blogosphere about his newest project, Escuela, the small taqueria he planned to open around the corner from the original Cobras & Matadors -- on Stanley Avenue, literally 50......