Pamela Sheldon Johns knows that everytime we have guests coming over we ask one thing: What should I serve?

Pamela makes this easy with her new cookbook, 50 Great Appetizers, offering 50 tasty recipes guaranteed to wow your guests…

Continuing on my Sunday quest for places that use sustainable food sources or that are organic in nature, my next stop was Mäni’s on Fairfax. Mäni’s is a bakery and a restaurant located on Fairfax between 3rd and 6th near The Grove and the LA Farmers’ Market. Mäni’s bakery features items free of additives, preservatives, hormones and artificial sweeteners…

Last week’s restaurant wars is over and we are down to 7 chefs in the kitchen. I think the morale of our chefs is down and we’re going to see more of that this week. Leah and Hosea are realizing that thier little “fun” last week can’t ever happen again…

Well it turns out I will be traveling to Columbus, OH in the near future for work (the computer geek side of me) and want to get some suggestions on where to eat in Columbus…

Panera Bread is rolling out some new Breakfast items and they are celebrating by offering free coffee all day long on Wednesday, January 28. In addition they are offering samplings of their new Grilled Breakfast Sandwiches and Granola Parfaits…

It is Sunday and I decided I was going to spend a day up in LA and try to hit a couple of restaurants. My focus was to find places that use locally grown produce and use local purveyors and farms…

I haven’t been in a Ruby’s probably since high school so this was a bit of a treat for me as well as getting to celebrate my friend Brooke’s birthday. There were about 12 of us there for lunch. The interior decor is rich with wood and colorful posters from old 50′s/60′s scifi movies…

Well here we are at one of the most anticipated episodes that Top Chef produces. It’s Restaurant Wars. We are down to 8 contestants. The gang is still reeling in from the last challenge where Ariane was sent home…

The location in Lake Forest is a small place but cozy and friendly. It seats about 30 people or so and is always busy during lunch. I’ve never been there during dinner, but so far I have no doubt that it is equally busy…

Circuit City, who filed for Chapter 11 back in November just got court approval to liquidate its assets. Sales could start as early as this Saturday…

Red Robin Restaurants in a series of cost-saving measures announced today that they will be discontinuing all National Cable TV advertising for 2009…

Quail Hill is a great place to eat for lunch. They have great outdoor seating for all the restaurants that seem to be clustered in this corner of the center. Being lunch it was busy and the restaurant was full…

The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has released their Luncheon Menu for the January 20th Inaugural Event in Washington DC. In addition, they have also released the recipes…

Let me start off by saying that this is probably the first episode in a long time that I saw where some real criticism and judging took place. However, in all that “real” judging, I question the outcome of tonight’s show…

First lady, Michelle Obama announced that have decided to retain Cristeta Comerford as the Executive Chef for the White House…

Daisy Martinez of PBS’s Daisy Cooks will be coming to the Food Network. The show is actually being produced by Rachael Ray through her production company Watch Entertainment…

Our chefs show up at the Top Chef kitchen to find a table of various sugars in front of them. With Padma is world renown French chef, Jean-Christophe Novelli. He is the founder of the Novelli Academy, voted one of the best cooking schools in the world…

So remember that huge bowl of soup that I couldn’t finish at Mentatsu? Well, the next day I had it for lunch, but I changed things up a bit. Not happy with my soup from the night before, I needed to fix it my way…

After reading the reviews of many of my fellow bloggers, I wanted to try out Mentatsu. After my haircut at the Crew Salon in The Lab, I called Tim and we met at Mentatsu located at Baker and Bristols behind the Wahoo’s…

Jersey Mike’s Subs has opened up a shop here. I was on my way to Wahoo’s when I saw the grand opening signs. No one was in the shop, yet the other restaurants on either side of them was busy (Panda Express and Golden Spoon Yogurt)….