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Coffee from Verve Coffee Roasters; Credit: R.E.~/Flickr

Verve Coffee Roasters Opening Cafe and Roastery in L.A.

Because we can always use more places for coffee: In 10 months or so, popular Santa Cruz coffee roaster Verve Coffee Roasters will open its own space in Los Angeles. According to Alexandra LittleJohn, Verve's business development manager for Southern California, the roaster "has signed the lease for the permanent......
Mozza's butterscotch budino; Credit: Anne Fishbein

Personality Test: What Your Favorite Dessert Says About You

Check out our annual restaurant issue, which this year celebrates desserts, out this Thursday, August 8. If you're the type of person who often orders dessert, surely you've noticed that you tend to get the same type. You're partial to cakes, maybe, or pies, or you just need a little......
The Lucky Peach game: You're on a boat.; Credit: Screenshot of Lucky Peach's game

Play This Now: The Lucky Peach Game

Lucky Peach published its most recent issue -- theme: Travel -- not too long ago, and there are a number of pieces worth the read (among them: travel tips from Jonathan Gold and Bill Buford). But maybe the best bit wasn't in print at all but, rather, a simple but......
What the Pho; Credit: Rocketsocks/Flickr

5 Punny Names for Future Phở Restaurants

Naming is always a fun process (see: His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge). And if you're a Vietnamese restaurant serving phở, it can be especially fun, if only because there seems to be a vast, endless world of phở-related puns at your naming disposal. And while, yes, we too......
Carne asada taco; Credit: Farley Elliott

Carne Asada Sunday at Dodger Stadium: Our Dinner With Andre

If you have no plans on Sunday, July 28, you probably could do a whole lot worse than to spend the afternoon at a ball game followed by some carne asada right off the grill. Especially when the ball game involves the Dodgers (versus the Cincinnati Reds), and the cookout......