Email Author Jonathan Gold
Golden Deli, you may not need to be told, is one of the best Vietnamese noodle shops in Southern California, a well-worn citadel of banh hoi... More >>
The aftermath of a dinner at Hua‘s Garden is like a Francis Bacon painting splashed across the tabletop in shades of red -- gory puddles... More >>
Taipan is one of those Chinese restaurants that you could walk by a hundred times without slowing down, a nice, clean-lined cafe plopped down... More >>
Poised between Reseda’s Persian commercial strip to the south and a smallish Chinese community to the north, Afghan House lies in what amount... More >>
Photo by Anne Fishbein Those of us who crave great Chinese dumplings on weekend mornings long ago learned to bow to the tyranny of the masses,... More >>
It is surprising how ordinary everything seems on the day after the catastrophe in New York, although each movement is articulated as if it were... More >>
Above a sleek Thai supermarket and behind a soaring Buddhist shrine, concert strobes flashing, vibrating with the sounds of 12-piece rock bands... More >>
It is possible, at ruinous expense, to find sushi in Los Angeles whose construction rises well above the Tokyo norm. The pizza at Alto Palato... More >>
Sasha Carrillo Hot Dog on a Stick In a fine restaurant, service can be almost a mystical thing: glasses refilled, silver... More >>
A proper Indian biryani is one of the finest rice dishes of the world, a vast, smoking mound of seasoned basmati rice cooked with meat or... More >>
Photo by Anne Fishbein If you have lived in Los Angeles more than a couple of years, you may remember the sort of Los Angeles stories... More >>
For a long time, everybody I knew went to Dos Arbolitos, a tiny converted hamburger stand in a supermarket parking lot on the San Fernando... More >>
Photo by Anne Fishbein Hainan is by all accounts China’s answer to Hawaii, a warm, lush island with beaches of fine, white... More >>
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