Photo: Courtesy Elephant & Castle The restaurant, which has been open since the 1970s, will closet his weekend. Photo: ...

34-year-old rock venue and onetime gay bar Kimo’s (1351 Polk Street) — which has seen the likes of Metallica and many other local bands on its tiny stage — is changing hands again in January ...

On a sidewalk outside a Home Depot in Cypress Park, Los Angeles, a few weeks ago, a fruit vendor was standing under his rainbow-stripe umbrella, which wasn’t doing much to protect him from the sun.

Thirty years ago, he was Rollerblading to Chinatown for ingredients and wondering if a Black chef from Sweden could join the ...

Our heady, exciting age of Cronuts and Dorito-fied everything has now seemingly spilled over into the liquor cabinet: Last week, the Suntory-owned distiller Jim Beam announced it will next year ...

Sunset Boulevard’s transporting, enchanting Moroccan tableau, Dar Maghreb, sadly won’t live to see its 40th birthday, as the restaurant appears to have shimmied its very last belly dance ...

In the new Bon Appétit, noted author and Berkeley denizen Michael Chabon writes a lovely piece about spending a Thanksgiving ten years ago with family and friends at “the sweetest, quirkiest ...

Maurice Rouas, owner of Fleur de Lys since 1970 and longtime maitre d’ in the restaurant, has died at age 73. The cause, as the Chron reports, was complications from diabetes, pneumonia, and ...

A new waiter tell-all doesn't have nice things to say about Michael Stipe.

The Chron profiles the young salumi genius.Today’s Datebook profiles Jon Smulewitz, the 34-year-old chef-owner of Dopo (Ed. Note: one of our favorite Italian restaurants of all time) and Adesso ...

The 14,000-square-foot ground-floor space at 133 Mulberry Street, which has been different iterations of SPQR restaurant and catering hall for at least the last 30 years in the ever-displaced ...

Lenny McNab, a chatty, well-groomed, and bescarfed cowboy who just won the tenth season of Food Network Star, allegedly had a colorful past on an internet message board, on which he made several ...