For all of you who love nothing better than to sip tea and eat Kristy Choo's glorious macarons on Jin Patisserie's charming outside patio, you're going to need to get there soon for a few last tea times. Choo's Abbott Kinney shop will be closing its doors for good on......
If you live or work on the Westside and are tired of the long haul across town -- or a few hundred miles south -- every time you want a good, I mean really good, fish taco, you're in luck. This past weekend, Josh Gil and Daniel Snukal opened Tacos......
Today, as you may have noticed already, our 99 Essential Restaurants issue has landed at your newsstand, in your in-box, on your laptop or wherever you're reading this -- and hopefully, eventually, repeatedly, on your plate. This year, unsurprisingly, there are a lot of changes. A new restaurant critic, a......
It is a maxim of Los Angeles food culture that you'll find some of the best meals in the oddest places, in run-down strip malls or seemingly abandoned building complexes. Pollo a la Brasa looks less like a restaurant than like a folklorist's dream of one: a Peruvian chicken shack......
There is a particular kind of alchemy that takes place (casually, nightly) at Providence, Michael Cimarusti's Melrose Avenue seafood palace. Because amid the white tablecloths and the relative peace and quiet, the nicely dressed patrons and the faint purr of the German-engineered cheese cart, there is the kind of exquisitely......
For the last dozen years, West Hollywood's Angelini Osteria has been perhaps the moral center of Italian food in Los Angeles. A procession of many of the town's best practitioners of the cuisine has trained in chef Gino Angelini's small kitchen, learning to master pasta and porchetta at Angelini's hands......
Think about what you love best about street food: the satays laced with lemongrass and galangal and tamarind, the noodle bowls filled with char sui and Manila clams and fried egg. Add snacks of fried potatoes, fired with incendiary amounts of sambal. Then throw in a cheeseburger (sambal! Kraft American......
At his downtown restaurant Bäco Mercat, Josef Centeno has a wildly eclectic approach to food that is less fusion than playful, Garanimals mix-and-match. (It's perhaps not entirely accidental that the name of the place sounds like a beast right out of Doctor Dolittle.) Texas-born, Daniel Boulud– and Manresa-trained, with a......
When chef Casey Lane decamped from Portland, Ore., for the wilds of hipsteropolis Abbot Kinney in Venice, it was to great happiness. Lane set up his workshop in the space previously occupied by Conny Andersson's short-lived AK (which seemed less a restaurant than the world's most expensive Ikea kitchen). Nearly......
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