Amy Scattergood

Ken Namba's 14-year-old sushi restaurant may look nondescript from the outside, wedged as it is into the ground floor of a mall at the corner of Olympic and Sawtelle, but once inside you'll soon see what makes the smallish Kiriko one of the best sushi restaurants in town. You might......

Chef-owner Genet Agonafer's 13-year-old Meals by Genet, in the tiny Little Ethiopia neighborhood of the Fairfax District, is less a study in contradictions than it is an improbable oasis. You'll walk in from the bustle of the thrift shops and tiny markets that line the street to low candlelight, a......

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......

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......

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......