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Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818
Northern China's favorite snack food
By Jonathan Gold
Xinjiang barbecue is one of the most compelling snacks in the world, thin skewers of charred lamb snatched bubbling from the grill, crusted with cumin and dried chiles, dusted with salt and Sichuan pepper, spurting hot grease when the burning flesh snaps beneath your teeth. The sizzling skewers of… Keep Reading »
Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818
Northern China's favorite snack food
By Jonathan Gold
Xinjiang barbecue is one of the most compelling snacks in the world, thin skewers of charred lamb snatched bubbling from the grill, crusted with cumin and dried chiles, dusted with salt and Sichuan pepper, spurting hot grease when the burning flesh snaps beneath your teeth. The sizzling skewers of… Keep Reading »
Dim Sum at Alhambra's King Hua
Scenes from the latest combatant in the Cantonese banquet wars… View Slideshow »
King Hua's Dim Sum: Breakfast, à la Cart
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
By Jonathan Gold
It’s 107 degrees in the San Gabriel Valley sun, a blasting heat with a sulfurous, hydrocarbon edge, and the sweating hordes packed inside the lobby of the new King Hua huddle under the one vent in the room that even promises a bit of cool, jostling one another for… Keep Reading »
Tiara Cafe: Fashionably Fred
Freshwiches, vegan chic and cupcakes from Fred Eric, L.A.'s chef of invention
By Jonathan Gold
Fred Eric is the house madman of Los Angeles cooking, the screaming id, the chef who has been most likely to succeed since the 1980s. He worked with Joachim Splichal at the dawn of the hypertechnical era of Los Angeles cuisine, ran what were arguably the first of the… Keep Reading »
Renu Nakorn: Spicy Thai Hot Spot Reopens
To make a tiger smile
By Jonathan Gold
It’s practically a shrine, Renu Nakorn, the site of nearly everybody’s first regional-Thai restaurant epiphany, a storefront in an improbably remote Norwalk strip mall that just happened to feature catfish larb instead of mint-leaf chicken, raw prawns with fish sauce instead of angel wings. Even at its beginning, back… Keep Reading »
Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818
By Jonathan Gold
Northern China's favorite snack food
King Hua's Dim Sum: Breakfast, à la Cart
By Jonathan Gold
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
That Sucking Sound: The Gross and Greasy Glory of Roasted Marrowbones
By Jonathan Gold
In L.A., the best are at Cut and Pizzeria Mozza
Counter Intelligence
Stick Figures: Cumin-Dusted Xinjiang Barbecue, at San Gabriel's 818
By Jonathan Gold
Northern China's favorite snack food
King Hua's Dim Sum: Breakfast, à la Cart
By Jonathan Gold
In the Cantonese restaurant wars, Alhambra kitchen brings morning firepower
Tiara Cafe: Fashionably Fred
By Jonathan Gold
Freshwiches, vegan chic and cupcakes from Fred Eric, L.A.'s chef of invention
Chunju Han-il Kwan Draws Hungry Night Crawlers With Its Budae Jjigae
By Jonathan Gold
Fusion reaction
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The 20 Best L.A. Italian Restaurants
By JONATHAN GOLD
Winter Restaurants 2007 – The Italian moment and four classic delis
Quest For Fire
Where to Eat Now: New to the List
By JONATHAN GOLD
Agra. Balti, in theory at least, is a kind of Kashmiri curry with roots…
Koreatown Top 40
Koreatown's Top 40
By Jonathan Gold
Twenty-odd years ago, I lived in a neighborhood that was then called Wilshire Center,…
Where to Eat Now
Where to Eat Now
By Jonathan Gold
Downtown L.A./Chinatown/Westlake Ciudad Glistening oysters at happy hour. Fatally strong mojitos. Peruvian-style ceviches and…
First Bite
The Parisian Room: Alain Giraud's Anisette Brasserie
By Jonathan Gold
A glass of Sancerre, a half-dozen oysters, and a French chef who's found home
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That Sucking Sound: The Gross and Greasy Glory of Roasted Marrowbones
By Jonathan Gold
In L.A., the best are at Cut and Pizzeria Mozza
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The Bacon-Wrapped Hot Dog: So Good It's Illegal
By DANIEL HERNANDEZ
Jailed for selling L.A.'s famed "heart attack" dogs, licensed street vendors are fighting back
Food, Dude! Stoner Caterers
By MATTHEW FLEISCHER
Chef duo's Food Network show falls flat, but they've moved on to the Carson Daly show and their first restaurant, Animal
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