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 and... 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 of... 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 amounts t... 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 >>

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 >>

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 that used... 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 >>