Email Author Besha Rodell

2013 Stories by Besha Rodell

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  Allumette Review: Miles Thompson's Echo Park Restaurant Is Outrageously Ambitious

  published April 4, 2013

  An entree of turnips and brown rice sounds vaguely like something you'd get for lunch at a very austere, vegan yoga retreat. It does not sound... More >>

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  littlefork Review: If You're Craving New England in Los Angeles, Jason Travi's Restaurant Is the Place To Be

  published March 21, 2013

  You always want the thing you cannot have. This is the only explanation I've been able to come up with for the recent proliferation, here on... More >>

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  Bar Ama Review: Josef Centeno Provides a Playful Mashup of Tex-Mex and Mexican

  published March 14, 2013

  See more of Anne Fishbein's photos from Bar... More >>

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  Alma Review: This Downtown Restaurant May Be the One You've Been Waiting For

  published March 7, 2013

  See more of Anne Fishbein's photos of... More >>

• A-Frame: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  A-Frame, Roy Choi's converted Culver City IHOP, begs to be taken lightly — there's the loud music, the beautiful people,... More >>

• Alma: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  This is what the promise of the food revolution was supposed to deliver: young, talented chefs forging their own paths in funky, unexpected... More >>

• Animal: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Five years after its opening, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo's flagship restaurant still feels shiny and new, a standard-bearer for the... More >>

• Attari Sandwich Shop: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  The eggplant is one of the great culinary obsessions of our time. There are many ways to love it: breaded and fried and smothered with marinara... More >>

• Bar Amá: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Josef Centeno's love letter to the Tex-Mex food of his childhood takes shape at his new Bar Amá in a raucous,... More >>

• The Bazaar: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  L.A. is a city that demands the conceit of dining in someone's outrageous fantasy, should the occasion call for it, and Jose Andres'... More >>

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  Bestia: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Ori Menashe, his wife, Genevieve Gergis, and restaurateur Bill Chait have created quite a winner with Bestia, one that may yet... More >>

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  BierBeisl: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Among Bernhard Mairinger's contributions to L.A. dining, there's this: He's filling some of the void left when Spago removed goulash and... More >>

• Canelé: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Corina Weibel's Atwater Village restaurant is that place every neighborhood deserves but only a few are lucky enough to get: a dependable,... More >>

• La Casita Mexicana: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  It begins with a cup of soup, which comes as part of lunch or dinner at La Casita Mexicana, along with a bowl of corn chips... More >>

• Cole's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  It's true, there are some who miss the grunge and funk of the old Cole's, the basement-level, 105-year-old restaurant that... More >>

• Father's Office: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  You tend to hear two things about Father's Office, Sang Yoon's beer bar and gastropub (some say the original L.A. gastropub):... More >>

• Fred 62: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  In a town of old-school diners, one of the best is basically a reproduction, although that certainly doesn't stop Fred 62 from... More >>

• Gjelina: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  If you ever forget how lucky you are to be living in Southern California, here's a surefire cure: Go sit on the back garden patio of... More >>

• Guelaguetza: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Stop by Guelaguetza on a Friday night and you're greeted by quite the party. The restaurant, which has been at the forefront... More >>

• Huckleberry: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  The line out the door and into the back parking lot at Huckleberry on a Sunday at noon can be daunting. It may take you 20... More >>

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  The Hungry Cat: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  When a food writer has a birthday, where does she eat? This food writer went to the Hungry Cat, slurped 30-odd oysters and... More >>

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  ink.: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  In ink., Michael Voltaggio has created a restaurant that's both broody and as fun as they come, both serious business and pure... More >>

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  Jitlada: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  There's hardly anywhere in the country that could give you a better education in Southern Thai food than siblings Sarintip "Jazz" Singsanong... More >>

• Kiyokawa: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  The menu at Kiyokawa doesn't explain why you might seek out this small, unassuming sushi bar tucked among the nail salons and... More >>

• Kogi Truck: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  It's easy to wish the Korean taco had never been invented; it's easy to get sick of the food-truck glut. But much of that goes by the wayside... More >>