Email Author Besha Rodell

2013 Stories by Besha Rodell

• 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 >>

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  L&E Oyster Bar: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Good wine and cold oysters: The combination shouldn't be too much to ask, especially in a coastal and cosmopolitan city like L.A. Yet the east... More >>

• Lucques: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  Suzanne Goin's wine-centric bistro in West Hollywood is a lovely example of what increasingly feels like a dying breed: the grown-up... More >>

• Ludo Truck: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  It's ironic that, at the very height of Ludo Lefebvre's fame, there's not a whole lot of his food to be had. With a new Hancock Park restaurant... More >>

• Lukshon: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

  published February 28, 2013

  It's hard to call what Sang Yoon does at Lukshon "fusion," any more than you'd use the word to describe the imaginative... More >>