The dish in front of me is devastatingly beautiful: a smattering of translucent, barely green syrup; some bits of slightly more solid orange... More >>

See more of Anne Fishbein's photography from Post & Beam. It's Friday night, and Post & Beam is jam-packed. While soul music plays, friends and... More >>

Los Angeles is not a love-at-first-sight kind of place. To an outsider, the wide boulevards and fierce jumble of humanity look arid and... More >>

When the economy crashed in late 2008, many of us had this hilarious notion that a new age might usher in some way of living that was deeper and... More >>

See more of Anne Fishbein's Seta photography. When chefs Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu opened La Casita Mexicana in 1998, they were... More >>

See more of Anne Fishbein's food truck photography. It's not the kind of question you ask in public, but: Would you eat from a plain white... More >>

The drink is called the Chin-Up, which seems inadequate as solace, halfhearted as a name. It blends Beefeater's gin and Cynar, a peculiar... More >>

Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, also is an investor in many L.A. restaurants. We asked him, "Why food?" at his favorite... More >>

Does L.A. boast the best sushi in the entire country? If even Ferran Adrià is on our side, we can probably feel confident it's true. The... More >>

I worked on a proposal for a cookbook with a well-known Los Angeles chef, whom I will call J. J. has a genius for intensifying familiar dishes,... More >>