Tien Nguyen

Chibiscus is a small shop located in a strip mall on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, a few blocks west of La Brea, or far enough away from the traffic and the tourists so that, unless Paul McCartney or Justin Timberlake happens to be giving a free concert nearby, you can......

Chibiscus is a small shop located in a strip mall on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, a few blocks west of La Brea, or far enough away from the traffic and the tourists so that, unless Paul McCartney or Justin Timberlake happens to be giving a free concert nearby, you can......

Restaurant names, like baby names, book titles and colors, go in and out of fashion. Thus for every baby girl named Sophia, every book with "-land" in its title and every "new black," we seem to have a restaurant or bar named after some member of the animal kingdom. Sometimes,......

After some four months of renovations and repainting, Coffee Commissary will officially open this weekend in Burbank. Located right on the busy corner of Alameda and Olive avenues (which, if you ever got lost on your way here, channel your inner Liz Lemon and remember that, yes, Olive just turns......

If you need a reason to eat a burger -- because sometimes you do, no matter how trifling -- today is National Cheeseburger Day. And while there are an awful lot of places in this city to have a fine burger, maybe make your way to Dog Haus instead, where......

Going to a food festival (especially one being held for the first time) is always a risky thing. As these things always seem to be held during the summer, there will be heat. There will be crowds. And, above all, there will be lines. Which brings us to this past......

After much anticipation, Stumptown Coffee Roasters opened in the Arts District of Downtown this week, a 7,000-square-foot space that houses a roastery, a training facility, a huge back area for wholesale operations and, last but certainly not least, a cafe. Stumptown's first shop opened in Portland in 1999 and was......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mien, cups of boba and......

There are quite a few reasons, we imagine, why you'd want to use an online dating service where love for salad is an integral part of the matchmaking algorithm. Maybe you believe that someone's feelings toward kale are a strong indicator of compatibility, and some services are either too broad......

Today, employees at your local fast food establishment are going on strike to demand the right to unionize and to be paid something substantially more than the minimum wage. Because, Neil Cavuto, what was yesterday's summer job to support a bubble gum habit has become today's full-time job to support......