Four blocks east of the Peninsula Beverly Hills and the Waldorf Astoria on Santa Monica Boulevard is newcomer Velverie Cafe and Teahouse. The European-style cafe opens today in the glitzy 90210 zip code where service includes coffee, champagne, cocktails, an all-day menu, a modern-retro interior, plus a new spin on afternoon tea.

Pulling from regional and early American historical documents and cookbooks for inspiration, Dunsmoor focuses on live-fire cooking, preserved foods and other centuries-old cooking techniques. Here, chef Dunsmoor feeds the restaurant's hearth oven. (Brigitte Neman/Dunsmoor) Brian Dunsmoor spent years exploring early American cooking as the opening chef of Hatchet Hall, consulting regional and historical accounts and cookbooks to steer his menus as well as his techniques.

The Cruzin 4 Brews Car Show, organized by the Legends Vintage Car Club, packed the streets of downtown Torrance, California, with hot rods, muscle cars, trucks, lowriders, classics, and more on the first Saturday of June. We don't have winter in Southern California, so hot-rodders here never experience the off-season that hot-rodders in the Midwest and northern states take for granted.

After making appointments required to reduce crowds during the COVID pandemic, Los Angeles animal shelters will no longer require appointments on Tuesdays and Thursdays starting July 5. Since the pandemic began, shelter visits have been by appointment only during the week. Starting Shelters will still require appointments for Wednesdays and Fridays.

Brazilian moqueca baiana with striped bass and jiquitaia pepper. Chef Fernando Darin’s body is in a state of ketosis. By consuming a strict diet of mostly fat and few carbohydrates, the chef is prompting his body to access fat stores instead of blood sugar for its energy. As the executive chef at Mother Tongue, the new restaurant perched atop the 75,000-square-foot, five-level fitness club called Heimat in Hollywood, Darin’s first-hand experience with the ketogenic diet, previous experimentations with veganism and vegetarianism, and career-long curiosity to understand how food can impact health will come in handy.

We head to the world’s largest, in Torrance, Ont., to find out - The Globe and Mail Greg Knight, the owner of Torrance, Ont.’s brand-new Muskoka BeerSpa, travelled to beer spas in Japan, Europe and across the U.S. looking for inspiration. When I ask Greg Knight, the owner of Torrance, Ont.’s brand-new Muskoka BeerSpa, what exactly is a beer spa, he says he’s not quite sure he even knows yet.