Food

More chocolate than you could ever dream of, at Echo Park's Chocolate Dispensary

More than 1,000 chocolate products in one packed-to-the-gills store.

A display of colorful chocolate bars in every shade and design, stands in front of a more rows of chocolate and chocolate related stuff

For this Iranian-American baker, celebrating Nowruz in wartime is bittersweet

Paris Rezaie ships her specialty cookies all over the U.S. and Canada for the traditional Persian springtime celebration.

A closeup of a box of cookies including a row shaped like walnuts, another with white icing and painted flowers, and one with pressed yellow and purple flowers on top.

Ask a local: Mar Vista eateries

We discuss breakfast, lunch and dinner in this often overlooked Westside neighborhood.

An interior of a busy restaurant, with people seated at a counter in front of an open kitchen on the left, and tables and chairs to the right. It's a warm atmosphere with mellow lighting

Late night madness: How to navigate Seafood City's Filipino grocery store dance party

Seafood City's Late Night Madness transforms a Filipino grocery store into a dance party and street food experience.

A person in a Seafood City shirt dances with arms outstretched inside a Seafood City supermarket as a crowd watches and cheers.

Cafe drinks inspired by feminist icons

Newly opened Caféina in West L.A., operated by the Women’s March Foundation, is offering drinks like the Gloria Steinem Latte.

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This East LA food pantry needed a new home. The Boyle Heights community stepped up

The pantry was previously stationed outside of Ramirez Meat Market and now has a new home in Boyle Heights.

A woman with medium skin tone and tattoos, wearing a black graphic tee and black Nike hat, smiles as she sets up a metal basket in a small wooden storage with shelves. There are cans of coffee and other canned goods on a shelf. The front exterior is painted green with writing, partially out of frame, that reads "Pantry" with a smiley face and heart.

To see how Koreatown has changed over the years, look at its restaurant menus

From European restaurants serving pasta to Korean restaurants inscribing menus on gourds, food can provide a lens to see Koreatown’s development over time.

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A gourd with Korean hangul lettering painted on.

You can eat tons of pie in Griffith Park on Pi Day. Here’s how

Our friends at KCRW are bringing together a lot of pie-makers for their annual PieFest & Contest. It’s all going down this weekend in Griffith Park.

A close up of pies on a table. They have crispy crustes that are brown on the edges. The center is cut out in a star shape, which reveals the bright red strawberries inside the pie.

World-famous Noma chef, about to start $1,500-a-plate residency in LA, faces past allegations again

An investigation from the New York Times published Saturday detailed troubling incidents of past abuse by Noma's star chef, René Redzepi.

A man with short brown hair wearing an apron staring at the camera with his arms crossed.

Iconic Mexican churreria El Moro to expand in LA

A new location is set to open on the Westside later this year.

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A large stack of plates with a pile of churros on the very top one. They sit atop a white counter. To the right of the churros is a smaller stack of plates that read "Churreria El Moro."

The LA Marathon brunch guide — where to get a good meal along the 2026 route

From Nick’s Cafe in Chinatown to patio brunch on the Sunset Strip, here’s where to grab breakfast and still catch the runners on the “Stadium to the Stars” course.

An arial view of a cup of foamy coffee and a hand reaching out to a plate with dessert across from another set of hands.

I did something bananas: I mapped out the entire contents of my freezer. Here's why

I had plenty of food in my two freezers. So why did my credit card bill point to so much takeout? I had to make a change.

The freezer of a side-by-side fridge is jam packed with all manner of kitchen items, including hot dogs, bags of spinach and many ice cube trays.

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