Email Author Besha Rodell

2013 Stories by Besha Rodell

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  Outback Steakhouse Review: Please Don't Call This Food Australian

  published June 13, 2013

  Consider the Bloomin Onion. Two thousand calories. One hundred sixty-one grams of fat. More >>

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  Trois Mec Review: Ludo Lefebvre Brings Bistronomie to Hancock Park

  published June 6, 2013

  Ludo Lefebvre doesn't like the music. "What is up with this fucking music?" he mutters to his cooks in his thick French accent. "I don't... More >>

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  Paiche Review: Ricardo Zarate Opens a "Peruvian Izakaya" in Marina del Rey

  published May 30, 2013

  Eating at Paiche, the new Marina del Rey restaurant from Ricardo Zarate, is an exceedingly cheery experience. The entire enterprise is... More >>

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  Rustic Canyon Review: Chef Jeremy Fox Makes a Good Restaurant Even Better

  published May 16, 2013

  It's the type of dish that might make a vegetarian weep: vibrant green, ultra-fresh stalks of late-spring asparagus, topped with a pert,... More >>

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  Corazon y Miel Review: Craft Cocktails and Creative Cooking Take Up Residence in a Surprising Place

  published May 9, 2013

  Twenty years ago, it would have been hard to imagine that practically every small town in America would one day have an espresso bar. You could... More >>

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  Bludso's Review: A Compton Classic Comes to Hollywood

  published May 2, 2013

  If acts of extreme eating hold some kind of (unfathomable) appeal for you, here's a meaty proposition I recently tackled in the line of duty:... More >>

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  Hinoki and the Bird Review: The Sweet Smell of Success

  published April 25, 2013

  American cooking is a thing of brute force: Even at its best it relies on big, bold flavors to seduce us. Traditionally, whole senses go... More >>

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  LYFE Kitchen Review: This Would-Be Chain's Heart Is in the Right Place, But Its Food Isn't

  published April 18, 2013

  It's hard to take seriously, this new wave of "healthy" fast food, these McWraps and Wendy's flatbread sandwiches. It's as if fast food chains... More >>

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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 >>