Sarah Bennett

If momentum keeps at its current pace, 2016 could be the year that Los Angeles County becomes home to more than 50 craft breweries, up from a whopping eight (mostly old brewpubs) only six years ago. But in such a young scene — where experimental business plans play out over......

Ramen Hood opened at Grand Central Market in early November as L.A.'s first all-vegan ramen-ya. And while the stall is the latest from Ilan Hall of Top Chef and Gorbals fame, the man you'll most likely find cooking behind the counter is chef Rahul Khopkhar. Khopkhar worked with Hall at......

It’s been a whirlwind year for L.A. craft beer. In the half-a-decade growth spurt that hit the local brewery scene, homebrewers have gone pro, IPAs found their way onto taplists citywide, and neighborhoods no one thought of as destinations of any sort (Torrance?) all of a sudden became crucial craft-beer......

To chef Tin Vuong, the San Gabriel Valley hasn't changed much since his grandparents moved there after fleeing Vietnam during the fall of Saigon. The BlackHouse Hospitality executive chef — who is behind the South Bay empire that includes Steak and Whisky, Abigaile, Dia de Campo and Little Sister —......

In the last few years, coffee and beer have become inextricably blended together, both literally, as collaboration beers between roasters and brewers, and in delivery, through Stumptown’s continued innovation with kegging (and pouring from nitrogen taps) its cold brew. The marriage makes sense — after all, they’re the yin and......

Somewhere in my dreams, there is a little neighborhood Italian cafe, like the ones in Bologna (or New York, for that matter), with butcher paper on the tables and a jovial chef who can make his mother’s specialty pastas and will charge you a fraction of what they’re worth. The......

They call them "bottle shop tasting rooms," a not-so-catchy way to describe those specialty craft beer stores that also have a bar inside. The model was borrowed from wine bars and has over the last five years become a dual purpose way to serve craft beer. You can come in......

L.A.'s love for new casual dining experiences has lured one more East Coast chef to the West: Daniel Humm (along with co-owner, Will Guidara), from the three-Michelin-star New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park, announced this week that in 2017 they will be opening a branch of their lower-key restaurant, The NoMad,......

I was in the Cerveza Fauna tasting room at Plaza Fiesta in Tijuana when I started to feel my buzz. We’d started the day at a beer bar built into an old craftsman house, then moved on to La Mezcalera, where we sampled some of Mexico’s smokey clear liquors. After......