Roasting Season

The Hatch spirit comes to Santa Monica

The smell of roasting chiles is wafting through the air around the intersection of Arizona Avenue and 3rd Street in downtown Santa Monica at this very moment. The farmers’...

Hot Off the Presses

Cocohodo's machine-made delights

A fully automated assembly line fills the back area of a small stall in the prepared-foods corner of Koreatown’s Zion Market. When an operator at the newly opened Cocohodo...

Debbie Does Los Angeles

Eat sweet pastries at Eat Sweets Pastry

Here’s a list of things you can eat on Gayley Avenue in Westwood: greasy grinder-like sandwiches, greasy falafel, greasy burgers and greasy Korean-Japanese food. This,...

Handsome Groceries

After-hours shopping at The Produce Project

The 10-hour-long caffeine queue that is Handsome Coffee Roasters ends at 5 p.m. on Wednesday nights. But as the water pressure drops in the La Marzocco Linea and the burrs of...

United in Butter

Inland and coastal pastries from B1 Breadshop

Two Angelenos are eating pastries and drinking coffee on a weekday morning. One is sitting in the cool fog of Venice; the other is feeling the day’s heat in...

Regressive Snacking

Eating ice cream (and cupcakes) in Beverly Hills

We would have been incredulous if you had told us in first grade that we would one day tire of cupcakes. Of course, we could not predict the sweet oversaturation of the cupcake...