The collective of street food vendors who used to operate as the Breed Street Food Fair were forced to close down in 2009, but several of the vendors are hoping to resume operations legally in Boyle Heights at a planned evening farmers' market. more ›

Have you done your holiday shopping yet? You may want to set aside some time and money to support local artisans who are making some of Los Angeles' most delicious edibles at the Artisanal LA Holiday Pop-Up Shop. more ›

Beneath their shiny, stylized exteriors and delicious curbside bites, food trucks are businesses and "encounter somewhat unique challenges to get up and running and remain successful," according to a handy infographic by Intuit. more ›

Meet the people behind some of Los Angeles' emergent artisanal foodstuffs makers, from teas to salad dressings and pies to bacon at Artisanal LA. This is the sophomore event for the delicious new pop-up bazaar, and exactly where you need to be today if you're shopping for food lovers, or, are, well, just looking for some tasty stuff for your own kitchen or table. more ›

The Santa Monica Farmers' Markets will be implementing some changes in October as to which prepared food vendors are permitted to operate within the four different weekly markets run by the City of Santa Monica. more ›

The Los Feliz Village Farmers' Market is small...but mighty. Filling out two neat rows of booths in the parking lot of the Post Office on Vermont every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the farmers and vendors are joined by the Gastrobus, who make fresh fare using produce from the market, the Blue Bottle Coffee cart, and live music (on the Sunday we visited it was from the folksy duet Ampersand). more ›

Everyday, illegal vendors sell baby animals in the Fashion District, and many sicken and die soon after they're taken home. But some are rescued by Lejla Hadzimuratovic, founder of Bunny World Foundation, who is profiled today by abc7. more ›

It was a feast of global proportions at the Rose Bowl on Saturday for the LA Street Food Fest's Summer Tasting Event. Some intrepid eaters got there early with VIP admission and took a focused approach to hitting up each and every booth, truck, and stand on the lawn and in the courtyards. Others zeroed in on getting tastes from vendors they'd never tried before. A few took the "divide-and-conquer" tactic and sent people into different lines to bring back bounty to share, whether picnic-style on the field, at a table, or in the stands. more ›

First Fridays in Venice draws crowds, and so do the food trucks that park along the vibrant strip of Abbot Kinney to take part in the monthly festivities. However, there has been concern growing about the impact the mobile businesses have on the neighborhood, reports The Argonaut, and now the Neighborhood Council has formed a task force to explore the issue. more ›

Possibly adding fuel to the city's grease fire to get rid of illegal street vendors, a Center for Disease Control report released today tells of an April incident in which pot brownies bought from a bogus church fundraiser ended up in a preschool teacher's lounge sickening several teachers. more ›

Friday morning, residents on South Witmer Street in Westlake heard gunfire and not the sound of Cosme Gonzalez's usual cries declaring the foods he had to sell. The LA Times explains:

In what police are calling an attempted robbery, a man in his 20s approached the 46-year-old Gonzalez about 9:30 a.m. and demanded money. When Gonzalez refused, the man fatally shot him in the chest, police said.

"Ta-ma-leees!" he cries out in the morning air. "Tamales, tamales, tamaleeeees! Los tamales!" Every Sunday morning, somewhere in the environs of the unholy hour of 7:30 a man parks his truck on the street outside my apartment, unloads a cooler full of tamales, and proclaims his wares are for sale. And it drives me nuts. Firstly, I would have to say this disturbs me because frankly, I hate tamales. I know, I know, this makes... more ›