Halloween always means three things. Costumes, candy, and pumpkins. And what better way to enjoy a pumpkin than baked up in a delicious pie? Once you carve the guts out of those suckers, you gotta do something with 'em. And we advocate eating those guts, preferably with a big scoop of whipped cream and/or vanilla ice cream. ...

We were in the desert over the weekend so we didn't get a chance to showcase the good and the debatable on LAist on Sunday like we normally do. Before we do that, though, we'd like to remind you that we are giving away a prize pack for Crash which enters movie theatres this Friday. Joy Mitchell gives an LA perspective on the flick in last week's Weekly. Previously on LAist: - We talked......

We couldn’t help but notice mention of a couple local Cali institutions in Jane Levere’s NY Times piece about the remarkably unsophisticated daytime food tastes of contemporary culinary luminaries. Turns out famed New York-based chef Daniel Boulud recently visited the Apple Pan, while French Laundry and Per Se super star chef Thomas Keller relishes the In-N-Out burger—fries—shake—trifecta. It’s hard to take issue with these choices. The Apple Pan burger isn’t always the cat’s meow......

TheFoodSection.com's Kristin Franklin, blogging the site's "Moveable Feast" feature from LA, takes readers on a culinary tour of our city's burger joints. She hits all the usual suspects like Original Tommy Burgers,The Apple Pan, Fatburger and In-N-Out, but, surprisingly, fails to look in on Astro Burgers. Guess, it's too vegetarian for the list. LAist is also rather fond of the Double Del Cheeseburger at Del Taco. PS. We are really digging Franklin's post today......

With all the nation's journalists taking a week's vacation to drink their faces off, LAist has been reduced to trolling through the CitySearch food rankings. Let's see who's leading the burger derby... 1. In-N-Out Burger (Sunset) 2. Tommy's (Beverly) 3. Apple Pan 4. Father's Office 5. Fatburger (3rd St.) Looks solid. In-N-Out on top, where it belongs. We'll take the heft of a double Fatburger with cheddar cheese over the Apple Pan any day of......