Want your date to pucker up? Take her to the Hungry Cat in Hollywood, well-known for its innovative and freshly juiced cocktails, and order her up a Sourpuss ($12). I had tried one on the recommendation of the bartender. She swore that despite its ingredients of 1792 Bourbon, fresh orange juice and lemon with caramelized simple syrup that it was far from tart. I don't like tart, ya see. According to the bartender, the......

We're still kind of obsessed with the cooking videos over at imcooked, especially the oddly soothing clips of Thai street vendors cooking their wares: in the video above, check out a fried mussel dish prepared in less than four minutes. The LA Times heads north this week to seek out culinary finds in Ventura and Santa Barbara, respectively: first at new vegan restaurant, Mary's Secret Garden, and then at the Santa Barbara outpost of......

A cluttered stretch of Sunset Boulevard, crowded with stores and neon, billboards and cars, the sidewalks studded with gum, marked with the spray-painted symbols of different bands who’ve played Amoeba, seems a place ill suited to the food of a blue New England day, a little warm with a nice breeze, the air has that sweet salt tang to it. But to find the best seafood in town, Los Angelenos know better than to......

Photo by sassylittlepunkin via Flickr. Looking for an excuse to try the lobster roll and pug burger at Hungry Cat? Now you have a certifiably altruisitc motive for your gluttony. Tomorrow is the 13th Annual Dine Out Los Angeles, a one-day event where participating Los Angeles area restaurants will donate 20% or more of their day's proceeds to Aid For AIDS, a charity that works to improve the quality of life for people who......

LAist is going on a delicious spree from A to Z, and we've been frolicking this Spring through H. This week, The Hungry Cat in Hollywood is the cat's meow. And don't worry, we have a whole litterbox of cliche-kitty-isms.... The Hungry Cat is located on the corner of Sunset Blvd and Vine Street, right in the heart of Hollywood, but as we round the corner to the parking structure, we are a little......

It's been a while since LAist shared the dish on local food events, so we're doing our best to recoup and serve up a tasty mouthful of food tidbits today. Speaking of today, Planned Parenthood's Los Angeles Guild is hosting Food Fare 2006 today, and attendees will sample an assortment of local food and wines from 150 wineries, restaurants, and catering outfits to benefit PPLA’s Campaign for the Advancement of Reproductive Health. We're a......

Because summer is about gatherings and get-togethers, we wanted to pass on some cool cocktail ideas to spice up your summer celebrations. For some cool, refreshing Latin drinks, we suggest a Caipirinha, which is a variant on the Mojito, and uses cachaça, a Brazilian sugar cane liquor. If you can't find cachaça, use vodka, and you'll have what's called a caipiroshka. White rum makes it a caipiríssima. But if you're sold on the minty......

Certain meals out require proper tables with regular chairs (e.g. for group dining), while other times eschewing regular round/square/rectangular table shapes and grabing a seat or two at a long counter can prove to be far more fun and interesting. The joys of dining bar-side have been increasingly celebrated. As a result, LA neighborhoods are blessed with restaurants where eating at the bar or counter isn’t equated with second-class status, two-eggs with bacon and......

Share our Strength's Taste of the Nation is an annual event aimed at raising money to fight hunger. With over 60 cities in the U.S. and Canada participating, the event uses the power of sponsorship and the generous donations of participating chefs and restaurants to ensure that 100% of the ticket price goes to the cause. The Los Angeles event is Sunday June 5th, and has two levels of support aimed at giving donors......