Restaurant Reviews

The Undercover Vegetarian: Corazon y Miel

Corazon y Miel (subject of this week's restaurant review) is basically a meat-obsessed restaurant. There's a lot of pig parts, a lot of chicken bits. But it caters to vegetarians in that there's at least one starter and one (and sometimes two) entrees that are meat-free.

Hinoki and the Bird Review: The Sweet Smell of Success

David Myers' new Century City restaurant is a triumph of the senses

The Undercover Vegetarian: Allumette

During my last visit to Allumette, the Echo Park restaurant featured in this week's restaurant review, there were exactly two meat-free items on the menu. Chef Miles Thompson serves a short, ever-changing menu, and there are times when I've seen perhaps one other salad on offer as well, but the brie ... More >>

Now Open: Crossroads in Beverly Grove

Tal Ronnen has had a busy week, first with the grand opening of LYFE Kitchen in Culver City last Friday and now Crossroads in Beverly Grove. Whereas Ronnen was a consultant for LYFE, he's both chef and partner at Crossroads. Unlike the fast casual concept behind LYFE Kitchen, Crossroads is designed ... More >>

The Lazy Ox Chef Cycle: Josef Centeno to Travis Chase

The Lazy Ox Canteen is known for many things: The New American menu peppered with global influences. A soundtrack booming with The Animals and Soft Cell. The compact dining room outfitted with naked light bulbs and a pair of ox horns. Its unassuming setting -- a calm Little Tokyo street near Skid Ro ... More >>

10 Great Restaurants for Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day is almost here and you are going to need some reservations if you want to wine and dine your honey in style. So maybe stop procrastinating. Last year, we gave you a list of the most romantic restaurants in L.A. You could choose from one of those or go with something different. Turn ... More >>

Miles Thompson's Allumette Coming to Echo Park Mid-January

Echo Park's dining scene is getting yet another big boost with news that Allston Yacht Club, recently home to chef Miles Thompson's pop-up Vagrancy Project, will reopen in January 2013 as Allumette, a brand new restaurant helmed by Thompson, complete with a new menu and a redesign of the space.

Tar and Roses, Andrew Kirschner's Santa Monica Hot Spot, Has the Zeitgeist Nailed

Zagat Lists 10 Signs a Restaurant Is Good. We Think It's 10 Signs They'll Rip You Off

Zagat published a story on Monday which lists the "10 Telltale Signs of a Good Restaurant." And either they're stuck in a time warp, or they're seriously trying to get you to spend as much money as possible. Apparently, good restaurants are the kind that fold your napkin every time you get up, have ... More >>

The Chef's Library: Corina Weibel Patricia Wells' Bistro Cooking

The Chef's Library is a series in which we ask chefs around town to tell us about their favorite cookbooks. Today, we talk to Corina Weibel, chef and owner at Canele in Atwater Village. "For all around cooking, I still really love my Bistro Cooking by Patricia Wells" Weibel says. "It was one of t ... More >>

Mother's Day Flowchart: Where to Take Your Mom for Brunch

Mother's Day is on Sunday, which, depending on your relationship with dear Mom, is the best day of the year, or just another day to hear, yet again, about all the pain you caused during childbirth and the ensuing 18 years thereafter. In either case, there are many, many restaurants and eateries ce ... More >>

Spain's Elena Arzak Named World's Best Female Chef

Preparatory to naming the World's 50 Best Restaurants, the folks at S. Pellegrino, Acqua Panna and Restaurant magazine and, it seems, Veuve Clicquot, last year established a shiny new award: The World's Best Female Chef. This year's winner has just been named. The 2012 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Fe ... More >>

4 Leap Year Dining Events for Feb. 29: The Edison, 29-Cent Wine, CITY Night, Roy Choi/Mark Peel Mashup

[Update: Just added the event at The Edison.] Make Leap Day William happy: Buy a Leap Day cocktail and receive a free sidecar created by The Edison's bartenders. Also, 40% discount on cocktails, beer, wine and selected food items. (As with every Wednesday, all wine by the bottle is half-off.) WHEN: ... More >>

Pete Wells Named New York Times Restaurant Critic

Pete Wells​The New York Times just confirmed that Pete Wells will be that paper's next restaurant critic, ending two months of rampant speculation about who would get that coveted chair at the table. The previous critic, Sam Sifton, stepped down in September after two years at the position. Th ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Picca

At Ricardo Zarate's restaurant, Peruvian meets the Japanese izakaya

The World's 50 Best Restaurants List: Noma, Again

Noma​Everyone loves a list, particularly a ranked list. We do. David Letterman does. Water companies do. Thus S. Pellegrino has just announced their list of the World's 50 Best Restaurants. For the second year in a row, Noma in Copenhagen comes in at the number one spot. (Two years ago it was ... More >>

Eat and Drink Well for Auld Lang Syne on New Year's Eve 2011

So, it's time to plan New Year's Eve if you haven't already. Avoid the amateur's night problem by putting your 2011 celebration in the hands of restaurant pros who will handle the fine food and drink part. And save you clean-up troubles. Merriment, cheer, reflecting on the past year (which may or ma ... More >>

More Than $24 Spaghetti

Scarpetta offers rich, meaty repast

Food Bloggers Now Eligible for James Beard Foundation Awards

James Beard FoundationA Coveted James Beard Award​ In barely the blink of an eye, food blogging has exploded. Sometimes it seems that hardly an accountant, construction worker, or production assistant is without a personal blog detailing their relationship with food, or at the very least, the ... More >>

LudoWines

What to drink on the fly with the Lefebvres

The Western Food Expo: 3 Days of Food

​If you're a fan of behind-the-scenes programs like Meet the Press and Inside the Actor's Studio, this is kind of like that, for the food world. This month the California Restaurant Association will sponsor a three-day Western Food Expo that, while mostly geared towards those in the industry, ... More >>

James Beard Media & Book Awards Announced: The Winners

​The James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards. The Restaurant and Chef awards will be announced tonight. The Weekly's longtime restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Reviews award. Cook ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from LA Food Blogs

-- Food GPS goes for goat at Bulrocho [Food GPS] -- Pat Saperstein takes a tour of Latin American desserts [Eating LA] -- Zach Brooks tries Ciudad's lunch special [Midtown Lunch LA] -- Bill Esparza finds the real food of Baja in Sun Valley [Street Gourmet LA] -- ExileKiss dips into the sakes at ... More >>

Philippe Chow & Meals on Wheels: Dine Out for a Good Cause

DineLA may be over, but you can still eat well for a good cause. On Monday, March 22, Philippe Chow, chef-owner of Philippe, will be hosting a three-course, prix-fixe menu with 20% of proceeds directly benefiting Meals on Wheels' March for Meals program. Sponsored by Meals on Wheels of West Los An ... More >>

Spike Lee Interviewed at Morton's: ESPN's Lunch with a Legend

Morton's restaurant is known for its juicy steaks and classic martinis. But, Tuesday, November 24, you won't be staring at your filet as much as you will be at Spike Lee, famed film director, producer, writer and actor, as he's interviewed by ESPN radio. The series, Lunch with a Legend, a collabora ... More >>

Fraîche (Formerly Riva) Opens This Wednesday: Musical Restaurant Bar Chairs

The second outpost of Fraîche will open this Wednesday for dinner, in the former Riva space in Santa Monica. The website goes up today for reservations. If this game of musical bar chairs seems somewhat confusing, you're not alone. But at least you know where you'll be eating your dinner this Wedne ... More >>

Next Iron Chef Eric Greenspan: Will The Foundry's Cuisine Reign Supreme?

After stints in the kitchens of Alain Ducasse, Rocco Despirito, David Bouley and Ferran Adria, the jocular Eric Greenspan made a quick leap from sous chef to executive chef at Joachim Splichal's Patina, then opened a place of his own, The Foundry on Melrose, two years ago at age 32. Now the culinar ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Talks Regional Cuisine at the Mark Taper Auditorium

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, incognito​This Saturday morning LA Weekly restaurant critic Jonathan Gold will be giving a talk, "The Rise of Regional Cuisines in the San Gabriel Valley," at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium. The talk is presented by the Culinary His ... More >>

Craft of a Top Chef: Lost and Found at Tom Colicchio's L.A. Spinoff Show Craftbar

The Craft experience distilled into a tasting menu of small plates

Tavern, Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne's Westward Expansion

California cool

Pork in the Time of Swine Flu: Mexico City's Pig Cuisine, Snout to Hoof

Highland Park's Antojitos Chilangos and Metro Balderas

Reservoir of Flavor: Chef Gloria Felix Opens the Newest of Silver Lake's Grown-Up Restaurants

The long-awaited restaurant is in the space pioneered by the takeout shack Netty's

The New Cocktailians

The farmers market–loving, sleeve garter–wearing ladies and gentlemen of the bar taking over L.A.'s restaurants one glass at a time

Scandinavian Three-Way: Conny Andersson's AK in Venice

Four Seasons refinement arrives on Abbot Kinney

El Sinaloense: Let He Who Is Without Sinaloa

... get to Huntington Park

Finding Happiness in a Slice of Ibérico Ham at Bar Pintxo

Jamón, jamón

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

Where To Eat Now

Innard Beauty

Los Feliz / Silver Lake

Silver Lake

Beyond Urban Rustic

At his new La Terza, Gino Angelini is giving every other Italian chef in town something to be nervous about

Crazy/Dutiful

Johnny Romoglia at your service

A Guide to Our Advertisers: Part 1

Super Bowls

Recapping next season

From Formosa With Love

Where to go when you need to Taiwan on

Slither

Noodles walk among us . . .

American Pie

Out of Africa

Wrap Party

Thai duck calzones? Turkey, sweet potato and cranberry sauce tacones? Mango chicken burritos in Gorgonzola-chive tortillas? No, thank you. Around here, we’re into old-school wrap.