Tien Nguyen

Over the weekend, baristas from all parts of the western part of the country made their way to a warehouse in the Arts District of Downtown to compete in the Big Western Regional Barista Competition. And after all the shots were pulled, the coffee brewed and the scores tallied, Los Angeles-area baristas......

For all those times you're in Koreatown and have a hankering for a cheesesteak sandwich as opposed to, say, a sizzling bowl of soon tofu: Whiz opened in the neighborhood last Saturday, Feb. 15, a small shop on the corner of 6th Street and Oxford Avenue, or right around the corner from craft......

This weekend, when you've grown a weary of watching, and getting anxious for, athletes competing in Sochi, maybe take a break and head to Lot 613 in the Arts District of Downtown to watch a decidedly different sort of competition: almost 50 baristas, including local folks from G&B Coffee, Handsome Coffee Roasters, Copa......

  Valentine's Day is like a lot of food holidays: whether it is relevant to you really depends on whether you believe in the thing that's being celebrated. And thus if you (or your partner) believe in Valentine's Day, no doubt you already have something sweet and romantic and lovely......

If you have the sort of sweet tooth that compels you to seek out some sort of dessert after every meal, you could do worse than to be dropped in the middle of Koreatown, where you'll find sweets pretty much everywhere: There are cinnamon-dusted pancakes called hotteoks served cartside at......

There is no official Yelp edition of Mad Libs (yet), but thanks to The Bold Italic, there is now an unofficial one called YelpLibs that combines Mad Libs with, as the website describes them, "angry Yelp reviews." As it turns out, playing the word game - this version of it, anyway -......

You probably have a Starbucks gift card stashed somewhere or, given that some $1.3 billion was loaded onto the cards during the last three months of 2013, there's a good chance that you amassed quite a few over the holidays. And, yes, you could certainly use the money on the card......

Walk into the new location of Irv's Burgers in West Hollywood, and you'll probably see a lot of happy, very happy, faces. This would be because everyone - and I mean everyone - is equal parts happy and relieved to see owner Sonia Hong and her family in their new home,...

Looking for a food truck like it's 2008 might be the last thing you want to do at the start of this new year 2014, but maybe keep an eye out for this one anyway: For the last few weeks, Glico USA's Pocky truck has been roaming L.A. County, stopping...

The Ace Hotel just opened in the historic and absolutely beautiful United Artists Theatre building on Broadway downtown (or, if restaurants and not historic theaters are more useful landmarks to you, it'll probably be handy to note that the hotel is almost directly across the street from the terrific Alma). And while this is...