Kayvan Gabbay

To many die-hard regulars, the main reason to visit Dan Tana's is endearingly cantankerous, mustachioed, longtime bartender Mike Gotovac....

Los Angeles is ripe with culinary riches, from gourmet fine dining joints to casual, quick-service cafes. The city is also home to a diversity of cheap eats. The following are merely a few of our favorites that run the gamut from regional Mexican food to soulful Israeli cuisine....

Taste of China 2018 on Saturday, March 3, will celebrate the progression and influence of Chinese cuisine in the United States. The event will include more than 70 vendors showcasing and highlighting Chinese cuisine, including Bistro Na, Haidilao Hotpot, YuTianXia Hotpot, MeetFresh and Meizhou Dongpo, making for a veritable cornucopia of eats....

Mason's pithy menu prominently features its signature dumplings: boiled, steamed or pan-fried. In addition to various dumplings, a couple token rice bowls (Angus stewed beef and pork belly) and meaty buns are offered as well as light vegetable side dishes....

Chef Roberto Berrelleza grew up in bucolic Topolobampo, a tropical fishing port in northwestern Sinaloa, Mexico. That helps to explain the heavy emphasis on fresh seafood on Babita's menu....

Brothers Michael and Bryan Voltaggio have teamed up on STRFSH, located on the second floor of the recently remodeled and refurbished Gallery Food Hall on Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade....

The restaurant's original location is in the San Gabriel Valley, home to authentic Taiwanese and Chinese eats, in the city of Rowland Heights. The Beverly Hills location is its first on the Westside, and it's a wonderful addition to the neighborhood....

Despite the draconian rules and regulations, hungry hordes have flocked here in droves for all of those years. One reason is what's on the plate, or more accurately in the bowls....

One of the reasons for this boom may be that the cuisine wholeheartedly and easily lends itself to the kind of fare health-conscious denizens of L.A. enjoy. Dishes sing with flavor from exotic, though far from unapproachable, spices....