Michele Stueven

It’s a sweet and smoky week ahead with deals at the Pie Hole for National Pi Day, El Silencio Mezcal tastings and the limited return of Lady M’s Mimosa Cake to celebrate Women’s History Month....

Chef Jammar Jones serves a few hundred meals a day in two seatings and manages a kitchen staff of about 14. Known for his multicultural cuisine, Jones is a stickler for locally sourced produce and fresh ingredients. But his venue isn’t on a trendy downtown street or hipster Westside neighborhood — it’s the cafeteria at La Cañada High School, where he is the director of dining services....

When Nancy Silverton was a young girl growing up in the San Fernando Valley in the 1960s, her mother, Doris, would send her to school with brown bread sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper. While her girlfriends feasted on Wonder Bread and bologna sandwiches with Tang out of their lunchboxes, she hid in her brown paper bag and ate her whole wheat bread. That was the seed that sprouted the La Brea Bakery 30 years ago....

The James Beard Foundation today announced its list of restaurant and chef award semifinalists today for the 29th annual James Beard Awards, and L.A. secured multiple spots on the list....

It was an evening of high dining and higher education in an industrial section of Culver City this weekend at the Mary Jane University sushi and doobie rolling workshop, hosted by Potfessor Keiko Beatie and sushi chef Victor Miller....

It was the perfect evening for a taste of Alaska, as snow was falling all over the Greater Los Angeles area. The new culinary series, Dinner With Dres, a year of intimate rooftop pop-up dining experiences that appear and vanish in the heart of downtown Los Angeles, hosted by chef Andres Dangond, kicked off with an eight-course “Within the Wild” wine-paired dinner in the Sky Lounge overlooking South Park last week....