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Morihiro Onodera; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

Morihiro Onodera and Stefano De Lorenzo Will Cook Your Dinner

If you've found yourself gazing longingly at the pretty fish sign outside of Mori Sushi every time you're on that oddly grungy section of Pico near Exposition, dreaming of sushi while stuck in the rush hour crawl, you are not alone. Sure, the restaurant's still there, but Morihiro Onodera is......
Popcorn chicken ramen at Kosuke; Credit: A. Scattergood

Popcorn Chicken Meets Ramen at Kosuke in Alhambra

If you spend a lot of time driving around the SGV trolling for ramen shops, as some of us do, mainly because driving to Torrance or Gardena at dinnertime isn't as much fun as it should be, you may have noticed a place called Kosuke. No, it's not a baseball......
Daikokuya ramen; Credit: A. Scattergood

Daikokuya on Sawtelle Now Open With Ramen and Takoyaki

Ramen renaissance notwithstanding, if you have a soft spot for the old Daikokuya in Little Tokyo, with its nostalgic decor and permanent lines, you will be very happy to know that there's now another outpost on Sawtelle Boulevard, just south of Olympic and thus part of what some of us......
Roan Mills at the Santa Monica farmers market; Credit: A. Scattergood

Farmer, Miller and Baker Roan Mills Now at L.A. Farmers Markets

Look at the labels on the bags of flour and wheat berries, and on the gorgeous baguettes and boules, wrapped in parchment paper and marked with flour from the bannetons in concentric rows like faintly dusted crop circles, and you'll read not only provenance but etiology. There is the name:......
fish tacos at Tacos Punta Cabras; Credit: A. Scattergood

12 Best Ways to Celebrate L.A.'s Seafood Renaissance

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, this morning. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of breweries and hiking trails and burger joints and taco trucks, so many that you might get lost -- so many that we......
The exterior of the building at 820 S. Spring St.

Casey Lane's Downtown Restaurant the Parish Closes

The Parish, chef Casey Lane's downtown restaurant, has closed. The beautiful two-story, farm-to-table gastropub, the upstairs deck of which resembled more the deck of a 19th-century ship than the patio of a modern bar and restaurant, closed suddenly after Monday service. "At the end of the day, there's no story......
Marcella Hazan; Credit: Giorgio Molinari

Marcella Hazan, Italian Culinary Legend, Dies at 89

If you did not spend yesterday making Marcella Hazan's glorious Bolognese sauce, or any number of the beloved Italian cookbook author's many, many beautiful recipes, maybe you should have. Yesterday morning the news spread, first on Facebook and then on Twitter and in blogs and wire reports and newspapers, like......
croissant at Sweet Butter; Credit: A. Scattergood

10 Best Croissants in Los Angeles

If you've never tried making croissants at home, maybe you should, just once. The operation of making laminated dough (dough and butter layered, rolled out and layered some more, and some more) is at once both very simple and maddeningly complex, like building a tiny house, or a few dozen......