Besha Rodell

Unless you've been living under a rock (or, you know, having a full and robust life that exists outside the vortex that is the internet) you'll know that last week the New York Times restaurant critic Pete Wells reviewed Food Network star Guy Fieri's new Times Square restaurant Guy's American......

There's a song by Australian singer/songwriter Paul Kelly about a man calling his family from prison a couple of days before Christmas. In it, he asks his brother to kiss his kids for him, expresses deep regret about screwing up, and worries about his wife's fidelity. All of this is......

See more of Anne Fishbein's stunning photos of Fat Cow. When was it that Gordon Ramsay finally lost me? Was it the increasingly bad, pandering television projects? Was it the botox? Was it the name of his new L.A. restaurant, the Fat Cow, or perhaps his PR team's silly refusal......

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, Roy Choi, chef and owner of Chego, A-Frame, Sunny Spot and the fleet of Kogi BBQ trucks, tells us his favorite spots to eat......

In his new book, Thanksgiving, How To Cook It Well, former New York Times restaurant critic Sam Sifton gets to the heart of the Thanksgiving conundrum on the very first page: "You may be sharing family traditions or creating them or fighting against them or all three at once." Sifton......

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. Looking through the Thanksgiving menus in the LAPL menu collection was oddly comforting. There are more than 60 Thanksgiving......

This week's restaurant review is about Nobu Malibu, which recently moved locations. We hope you'll take the time to read the full review, but here's a condensed version, along with a few extra tidbits......

When looking out over the restaurant and food shop landscape, what comes to mind when pondering the question "what's missing here? What do we need more of?" If the answer you came up with was "CUPCAKES!" then you're in luck. Because the trend that won't die is getting two new......

Is there a chef more influential to Los Angeles cuisine than Nobu Matsuhisa? Is there an L.A. chef more influential to American cuisine? An argument can certainly be made for Wolfgang Puck. But apart from those two, who could claim that the culinary revolutions begun in their restaurants have spread......

Today, Umami Burger steps into the world of fast casual burger-dom -- the other words fast food -- with the opening of U Mini on Westwood Ave in Westwood Village. The new location, which opened to the public at noon today, is serving smaller burgers (sliders?) at a cheaper price......