We meet our hero, a spokesdude for Carl’s Jr., in the bread aisle of a supermarket, where he silently gapes at the hundreds of different... More >>

Photos by Anne Fishbein “You need no teeth to eat our beef,” the barbecue chain Mr. Jim’s used to advertise. In a spot of... More >>

Photo by Anne Fishbein In the course of his long and distinguished career, Dr. Seymour Benzer invented gene mapping, came within a... More >>

Photos by Anne FishbeinToday’s subject is pljeskavica. Pljeskavica is a thin, Balkan hamburger, as big and round as a phonograph record,... More >>

The concept of a one-specialty restaurant is well-known in the Chinese San Gabriel Valley: Din Tai Fung for steamed dumplings; Little Sheep for... More >>

Photo by Anne FishbeinFogo de Chao is less a restaurant than a sizzling theme park of meat, a quarter-acre of sword-wielding gauchos, smoldering... More >>

Photo by Anne Fishbein The Hong Kong Plaza Food Court is located in a yawning, empty space the size of a grand hotel ballroom attached to a... More >>

Photos by Anne Fishbein1985 was the year of tiramisu; 1994 was the year of the blood-orange sorbet; and 2002 was the year you started finding... More >>

Photos by Anne FishbeinMalan Noodles is like a fast-food restaurant from another galaxy, a blank, gleaming space festooned with posters bearing... More >>

Photo by Anne FishbeinKrua Thai rocks on a Saturday evening, a mini-mall noodle shop on North Hollywood’s Thai strip, washed with blaring... More >>