Noah Galuten

Papaya King, the extremely popular chain of stand-up hot dog restaurants in New York City, is coming to Los Angeles. New York has many imitators -- like Gray's Papaya -- but Papaya King is the original, selling quick-service, affordable hot dogs and tropical fruit drinks. L.A.'s location, on Wilcox Avenue......

After much speculation and many rumors, Animal chefs Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo have released the name and concept of their new restaurant, opening at 8379 West Third Street. As the Animal team told Food & Wine Magazine, the restaurant will be called Son of a Gun, and will focus......

Back in the 1940s, a donut machine salesman named Russell C. Wendell created a chain of Big Donut Drive-Ins. He opened nine total locations, with each one featuring an enormous donut perched on the roof (a quintessential example of programmatic architecture). Wendell then went on to sell his donut chain,......

Saint Valentine's Day is coming up, a holiday meant to commemorate your love through the purchase of mass produced greeting cards, written by someone who probably hates her job. It is also a very big night in the restaurant business, with most restaurants in the country being forced to contrive......

It's National Pie Day on Sunday, and February is National Pie Month. This would be exciting, if it weren't for every day seeming to be some absurd national food holiday. February is also Black History Month, which seems like it shouldn't have to share its remembrance with a pie eating......

Fast food restaurants love adding new items to their menus, and then promoting them to the point at which every single person in the country is aware that KFC has replaced bread with fried chicken. (Does anyone else remember the Tracy Jordan Meat Machine?) But while Del Taco has added......

There has been a prevailing notion that if you eat a large breakfast, it will help you to consume less calories overall throughout the day. But a new study from German scientists, published in Nutrition Journal, has shown that information to be false. This, to our mind, is not surprising......

On Saturday, the U.S. Department of State released a fact sheet on the work they have been doing to improve food security in Haiti following the devastating earthquake in January of 2010. While there is still incredibly depressing news being released since the disaster, there are some positive elements coming......

Multiple news outlets are reporting that on Saturday morning, inmates at an Orange County prison found cockroaches in their food. Fortunately for California prisoners and their families, this roach infestation took place in the other Orange County, in Florida. While the Associated Press and the Orlando Sentinel wrote that there......

As it turns out, if you take high quality ingredients, and apply extremely well-honed French techniques, you can make some very good food. And while that may seem like a fairly obvious truth, it's still a lot of fun to double-check from time to time, just to make sure. We......