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Fri. 27 Aug '10

Dining

Go sweet and savory at Shaky Alibi. You don't need a trendy truck to serve street food in L.A., as proven by Mid-City's new Shaky Alibi, a sleek coffee shop and... more
Fri. 26 Jun '09

Dining

Milk's sidewalk shaved ice is the perfect summer treat. Sometimes even ice cream is too heavy for a hot day. That's why Milk, known for its decadent ice creams and frozen... more
Fri. 01 May '09

Dining

Hatfield's is now one of the best dining deals in town. When the economy started tanking, Quinn and Karen Hatfield didn't come up with recession-dining gimmicks for... more
Mon. 27 Apr '09

Dining

Get a Suzpree sneak peek, three nights a week. Suzanne Tracht and her long-time chef de cuisine, Preech Narkthong, will open a new restaurant, Suzpree, later this year,... more
Tue. 17 Mar '09

Cooking

Milk's minty milk shake for St. Patty's Day. Every year around St. Patrick's Day, people obsess over McDonald's Shamrock Shake, the somewhat elusive green, minty frozen... more
Mon. 16 Mar '09

Dining

Revisiting Melrose's hidden Argentinean steakhouse. Loyal fans of Carlitos Gardel would prefer we keep this neighborhood gem a secret. For the last 12 years, meat lovers... more
Wed. 09 Dec '09

Cooking

Unique finds for the dining room and kitchen . Good taste goes far beyond what's on the plate--often, it is the plate. Here are some gift ideas for the smart, stylish and... more
Fri. 23 Oct '09

Cooking

Seasonal homemade preserves from your local French café. When you walk into Little Next Door on West Third Street, a wall full of gorgeous jarred jams greets you.... more
Tue. 18 Aug '09

Dining

Accoutrements that set one cheese cart apart from the rest. Some chefs take the straight-and-easy road to cooking, while others, like Laurent Quenieux, see it as an... more
Mon. 10 Aug '09

People

Kiss My Bundt's Chrysta Wilson takes the cake . Growing up in the South, Bundt cakes were as commonplace as sweet tea to Chrysta Wilson. So when the community organizer... more
Mon. 15 Jun '09

Dining

Celebrating 20 years of simple, seasonal and straightforward. If you look at a family tree of the Los Angeles dining scene, Campanile rests comfortably near the top. In... more
Wed. 22 Apr '09

Cooking

A new book celebrates the lives and food of the Original Farmers Market. The sights, sounds and smells at the Original Farmers Market--metal folding chairs scraping on... more
Mon. 06 Apr '09

Cooking

Chef Evan Kleiman combines the best of spring in one dish. For the last 25 years, Evan Kleiman has hosted a Passover dinner at Angeli Caffe, but it's not a seder--she... more
Fri. 27 Feb '09

Dining

Lining up for flavor bombs at Umami Burger. LA is such a demanding town when it comes to burger joints that ambitious newcomers need a secret weapon to get our attention.... more
Tue. 13 Jul '10

Dining

Burgers, make room for the Aussie meat pie. We may be swooning for The Natural, The Burger Kitchen's Pat LaFrieda burger made with a custom blend of 40-day dry-aged prime... more
Wed. 12 May '10

Dining

A dessert classic breaks into breakfast. Mom always urged you to eat breakfast, but we're pretty sure she wasn't talking about red velvet pancakes. That's right: The... more
Mon. 19 Apr '10

Dining

Chameau still brings a taste of Morocco to Fairfax. When Kelly Klemovich and chef Adel Chager closed the intimate Chameau a few months ago, they didn't leave the... more
Fri. 16 Apr '10

Drinks

T Salon is like a beer bar for iced tea. Boutique coffeehouses take iced coffee very seriously, and now T Salon does the same for iced tea. The new Melrose tea shop and... more
Tue. 02 Mar '10

Wine

There's a lot to dig up on The Tar Pit's wine list. When The Tar Pit opened in December, word spread quickly about Mark Peel's classics-revisited menu and smooth... more
Tue. 15 Dec '09

Dining

Still setting the standard after a quarter-century. You can throw a wet noodle in any direction in L.A. and hit an Italian restaurant. But that wasn't the case in... more
Tue. 13 Oct '09

Wine

Get a sampler pack from Tasting Table and DomaineLA. The perfect neighborhood wine store should have three things: A great selection for every budget, a hands-on owner... more
Wed. 22 Jul '09

Dining

The Golden State hits the mark with burger fans and beer geeks. Who knew that the area around Canter's Deli would become a hotbed for artisanal food and drink? A year... more
Wed. 13 May '09

Drinks

Ice cream in root beer, beer and...port?. Drinking a classic ice cream float has a certain Norman Rockwell-innocence, but it shouldn't be relegated to nostalgia: Today's... more
Tue. 21 Apr '09

Dining

Cool off with summertime's new sundae. With temperatures already hitting the 100-degree mark, our culinary battle to beat the heat is officially on. This year we have new... more
Wed. 08 Apr '09

People

Phyllis Magee and Magee's Kitchen, still going strong. After 40 years at the Original Farmers Market, Phyllis Magee hasn't lost one ounce of steam. She's been running... more