Michele Stueven

Accomplice Bar beverage director and occasional L.A. Weekly author Gaby Mlynarczyk celebrated the launch of her new cocktail recipe book, Clean and Dirty Drinking, during last Sunday’s Mar Vista farmers market, just outside the bar on Grand View Boulevard. Fittingly, the local farmers markets are ground zero for the fruits and flowers that have made Mlynarczyk one of the most recognized creative forces in the world of Los Angeles spirits....

Echo Park is the place to grow, and nobody appreciates that more than husband-and-wife restaurateurs team Jaime Turrey and Brooke Fruchtman of the Ostrich Farm and newly opened Bar Calo....

As an homage to food writer Jonathan Gold and his 1998 L.A. Weekly story “The Year I Ate Pico Blvd.,” his iconic bowler hat image has been immortalized by muralist Jeanine Hattas Wilson on a sprawling gray wall at the intersection of Pico and Barrington Avenue in West Los Angeles....

Dean Barker is an unapologetic wild thing, traveling DJ, music producer, horticulturist, child of the ’80s and an accidental chef. Just like Max in the Maurice Sendak classic Where the Wild Things Are, he loves to create a ruckus and looks forward to the day when he can live in his own underground forest....

Not everyone is a BBQ master and not everybody wants to pay an arm and a leg for a good steak, so we checked into a Summer Grilling 101 class with BOA Steakhouse executive chef Michael Neflas this week to pick up some tips and techniques for cooking meat, fish and an impossible chili burger at home....

It’s DIY week at the Weekly, starting with hands-on mixology classes at Margo’s in Santa Monica on Saturday, Aug. 11. The evening includes three food courses from the modern California kitchen themed to the evening's liquor. First up: tequila....

Nothing says summer like citrullus lanatus, with its thirst-quenching and crunchy red (or yellow) flesh. It’s well worth celebrating today, which is National Watermelon Day....

Move over, Grand Central Market – there’s a mellower and more manageable food court downtown in the Fashion District with a comfortable urban feel. Corporation Food Hall is an indoor/outdoor assembly of seven vendors including South City Fried Chicken, Pig Pen Delicacy, Soom Soom and Funculo....