Besha Rodell

It's true, there are some who miss the grunge and funk of the old Cole's, the basement-level, 105-year-old restaurant that claims to have invented the French dip sandwich. The place was cleaned up when it was taken over by Cedd Moses' 213 Nightlife in 2008, and it might be the......

You tend to hear two things about Father's Office, Sang Yoon's beer bar and gastropub (some say the original L.A. gastropub): The burger is good and the seating system is bad. Both of these things are true. The burger, with its caramelized onions, Gruyere and Maytag blue cheese, bacon, arugula......

Ricardo Zarate has taken his whiz-kid Peruvian place Mo-Chica from a stall in Mercado la Paloma and moved it downtown, opening a restaurant that tries to channel that street-food vibe in a swanker setting. There's stylized graffiti on the walls, the design is all cement and industrial chic, and the......

It's deceptively unassuming, this restaurant; just some tables and a kitchen behind a high counter tucked into a slot on Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. The menu, scrawled on a blackboard at the back of the room and surrounded by lights like a movie marquee, looks as basic as......

Step out of the tourist trap–laden, frat-boy noise of Hollywood Boulevard in 2013, and step into what is basically a time capsule — Los Angeles circa 1948. Musso & Frank is famous as the hangout of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Chandler and William Faulkner, and it still delivers the same......