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  • All Too Hunan

    Like a lot of Angelenos, I learned to eat Hunanese food at Charming Garden, an elegant dining room that was part of the churning second wave of... More >>

  • Straight to the Duck Heart

    Duck-Heart Cassoulet Bistro K is a restaurant out of a daydream, with a kitchen that ranks among the best in greater L.A. It’s run by the... More >>

  • Red Hots

    If you are looking for a proper representation of hellfire, the grill at Dino’s Burgers may be as close as you will get, a sulfurous,... More >>

  • Flesh and Bone

    Have you ever tasted Kobe beef? Not the admittedly decent Idaho-raised wagyu/Angus cow, but the real stuff, the $200-a-pound steaks imported from... More >>

  • Return of the Hairy Crab

    The new Green Village is the fanciest Shanghainese restaurant in town, a gently lit warren of white tablecloths and private dining rooms in the... More >>

  • Dining With the Stars

    In Manhattan, fall is the season when the big restaurant openings traditionally happen, when the megalithic new canteens in the Meatpacking... More >>

  • Hot Choclo

    A good pastel de choclo is magnificent to see, an enormous concoction, bubbling in its earthenware vessel, browned and smoking and yellow as a... More >>

  • Mish-Mash

    If you have no idea what a Bulgarian restaurant is supposed to look like, Danube might be exactly what you have in mind, a narrow Westwood... More >>

  • When the Bao Breaks

    The waitresses at Arcadia’s northern-Chinese Noodle House tend to be comfortably bilingual, as long as your concept of... More >>

  • Showing Pinkberry

    Have you ever been to Pinkberry on a balmy Saturday? It’s really a scene. Lines spill down the block and through the kind of crowd-control... More >>

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