Besha Rodell

Oh, orange wine, how I adore thee. For lovers of odd wines, orange wines are somewhat of a cult item, prized for their weirdness and obscurity. Unlike rosé, which gets its color from a few days of contact with grape skins, orange wine is left to ferment -- skins, stems......

Cortez, a new restaurant at the corner of Sunset and Allison Avenue in Echo Park, is opening tonight at 5 p.m. Tonight's dinner is a soft opening, but eventually the restaurant will be open for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Cortez is owned by Marta Teegan and Robert Stelzner, who also......

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, Alain Giraud, chef and owner of Maison Giraud, tells us his favorite spot to eat (when he has time) these days. Alain Giraud doesn't......

The Bloody Mary is a perfectly respectable drink. It goes well with egg dishes. It's spicy and salty and sometimes comes with fun/stupid garnishes. Mimosas are pretty great too -- bubbly, fruity, what's not to love? But, listen. It's time to up your brunch/hangover cocktail game. It's time to turn......

Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, the salumi night that Scuola Di Pizza chef Chad Colby has been hosting on Thursday nights will go to a four-night-a-week format, open every Mon.-Thurs. from 6-10 p.m. The change cements the idea that Colby is doing something with his salumi bar that is its own......

Italian restaurants with big, crowd-pleasing menus are generally safe territory for vegetarians, and Trattoria Neapolis, the subject of this week's restaurant review, is no different. The wide-ranging menu offers staples like caprese and beet salad, as well as a strangely re-imagined panzanella with avocado. There's pizza, of course, always a......

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. In recent years, the cocktail revolution has pushed bartenders and booze hounds online, to eBay and Alibris, searching out......

This week's restaurant review considers Trattoria Neapolis, the new palatial Italian restaurant in Pasadena. Here we present the cheat sheet version, plus a couple of details not found in the review. You can read the full review here. Vibe: This place is over-the-top, completely designed to impress. It takes a......

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, Corina Weibel, chef and owner of Canelé tells us her favorite spots to eat cheaply in L.A. Like all savvy Angelenos, Canelé chef Corina......