Tien Nguyen

After starting his Cognoscenti Coffee as a pop-up coffee cart in Burbank and Eagle Rock, then setting up shop inside Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Yeekai Lim has expanded into a room of his very own. Four hundred square feet of room, to be exact: Cognoscenti Coffee's new shop in......

Coffee, and its related accoutrements, almost always make for nice gifts. Because surely you know at least one person who loves, or is heavily dependent upon, that morning cup and thus would appreciate anything related to that happy moment. And, for you -- well, it doesn't get much easier than......

If you've popped into ROC Kitchen for soup dumplings anytime during its soft opening over these last few weeks, you may have run into several West L.A. residents who, as they readied their soup spoons, may have told you how long, exactly, they've waited for something "like this" to open......

No doubt you've spent an awful lot of time planning your Thanksgiving meal -- what you will make if you're eating in, where you will go if you're not -- but what might be as important as planning for Thursday is planning for Friday. Specifically, figuring out what you will......

Boy, they took away your fois gras, and now this? As it happens, it's National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day, a particularly apt food to celebrate on a day when you think at least half this country is nuts. No doubt you've already started cycling through the five stages of......

First, take a moment to sigh with relief. No, laugh. Because if there was ever a time to hoot and cheer as if you and your friends just narrowly averted death by trash compactor in the basement of the Death Star, this would be it. Maybe it wasn't as close......

If you've ever followed a Cook's Illustrated recipe the way it is intended to be followed -- that is, precisely -- and, as pleased as punch as you may have been with the outcome, nonetheless still thought, Gee, they take the fun out of cooking -- well, that's sort of......

With coffee shops opening up in Los Angeles faster than the newest gastropub can fry its Brussels sprouts, it was only a matter of time before a few local coffee professionals decided to go beyond the brew and see about roasting their own coffee. Such is the case with Cafe......

Last week, the Carpigiani Gelato Museum opened in Anzola dell'Emilia, Italy, just outside Bologna; the first in the world, it says, to "delve into the history, culture, and technology of artisan gelato." Inside, you'll learn about the history of the frozen treat, from an 11th century recipe for pomegranate sorbet......

It's October on the calendar and thus theoretically great ramen weather. Alas, theory hasn't quite met thermometer just yet, but when it does, it might be a good time to welcome the belated fall season with a nice bowl of noodles from a new ramen joint (yes, another one): Japanese......