Chef and restaurateur Josef Centeno has created an empire in downtown L.A.'s Historic Core district. With five restaurants practically in a row near the intersec
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Weekly food market Smorgasburg is a Brooklyn invention that came to downtown Los Angeles last year, setting up a gastronomy temple in the truck-loading lot of a whol
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Spring in Los Angeles signals many things. The vibrant green hills will soon give way to the scorched brown earth we know so well. The air begins to smell like honey
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Last September, Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1732, a bill requiring all single-stall restrooms in the state of California to be designated gender-neutral. It is th
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For most people, coffee is a given: a comestible lingua franca that cuts across cultural divisions, a predilection (and in many cases, full-blown addiction) that ad
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At 10:30 on a Sunday morning, the line for Howlin' Ray's already stretches through the entire bottom level of Chinatown's Far East Plaza. It starts at t
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Casita Del Campo has been a Silver Lake landmark essentially since it opened in 1962. The first owner was an actor and dancer whose claim to fame was a role as a gan
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George Abou-Daoud, one of L.A.'s most prolific restaurateurs, launched his seventh venture earlier this year: Farida, a Middle Eastern eatery near the intersecti
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As the craft beer scene becomes more and more obsessed with sours, make no mistake that some of the nation's most thoughtful ? if not outright intellectual ? sours a
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Los Angeles has plenty to be proud of when it comes to our female culinary talent. And L.A. Weekly is thrilled that many of our finest female chefs and restaurateurs
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MatchaBar, the New York City purveyor of green teabased concoctions, has opened its first West Coast location. The company ? which in addition to the cafes also sel
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It's a commonly accepted trope in contemporary American society that if you're going to eat animals, you should do them justice: Honor the fallen by eating o
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