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......

Today is John Steinbeck's birthday -- the novelist who wrote about our great state perhaps better than anyone else would have been 111 today. Steinbeck was a great drinker, and his favorite drink was the Jack Rose, one of those cocktails that's pure alchemy: You put in applejack and grenadine,......

We food writers are a cranky bunch. Given today's blog cycle and demand for daily conversation, any small nuance of the dining world is fodder for essay-length dissection, usually of the negative variety. We don't like small plates. We don't like communal dining. We think wine prices are rising. We're......

Nation's Restaurant News is reporting that Umami Burger has received a $20 million investment from New York-based Fortress Investment Group. The investment is being characterized as a "direct loan." The article goes on to say:......

Where the Chefs Eat is an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite dining options. This week we talk to David LeFevre, chef at Manhattan Beach Post. Chef David LeFevre is passionate about eating, so much so that he offered up......