Tien Nguyen

The Hart and the Hunter; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Restaurants Named For Animals: A Pie Chart

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,......
Coffee Commissary; Credit: Star Foreman

Coffee Commissary Opens in Burbank

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......
Coffee at Stumptown Coffee Roasters; Credit: T. Nguyen

Now Open: Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Downtown

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......
Churros at Churros Jalisco; Credit: Anne Fishbein

7 Great Churros in Los Angeles

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......
Salad at Alma; Credit: Anne Fishbein

SaladMatch: An App for Those Looking for Love at First Course

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......
McDonald's; Credit: Keoni Cabral/Flickr

Watch This Now: Stephen Colbert on the Fast Food Workers Strike

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......