Besha Rodell

Gordon Ramsay is a chef who is probably more famous for his television screaming tirades than his food. Today, Los Angeles gets a chance to focus on the edible portion of Ramsay's talents with the opening of The Fat Cow at the Grove. It's only right that the name of......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 39: Grilled Baby Goat T-bone at Mozza's Scuola di Pizza Salumi Bar. There are a ton......

For years, Vegas restaurants have trended towards celebrity chefs and high end dining. The buffet was seen as a throwback, a decent option for the unwashed gambling masses, but not so much a part of the food-glam scene Vegas is now known for. That is, until Caesars Palace decided to......

Here again, at Superba Snack Bar, we find a kitchen obviously in love with meat in all its permutations. And yet, chef Jason Neroni and crew also have an affinity for vegetables and, unlike many of Neroni's contemporaries, he avoids putting meat in his vegetable options. That means the entire......

Can it really have only been a couple of days ago? Yes, news of the porkocalypse began to spread just earlier this week after a British trade organization, the National Pig Assn., put out a press release stating that "A world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now......

This week's restaurant review examines Superba Snack Bar in Venice. Here are a few details from the review, plus some extra info on the service and logistics of the Rose Ave. restaurant. Vibe: One of Superba's great strengths is the atmosphere they've managed to create, fitting right into the neighborhood......

As the first in our series exploring the LAPL's menu collection, we're looking at a very early Spago menu. The Beverly Hills restaurant reopens this week after a renovation and reinvention that has taken a little less than three months. The library dates the menu "early 80's" but gives no......

In a brightly lit room just off the rare books room on one of the upper floors of downtown's Los Angeles Central Library lives the library's menu collection, housed in a series of brown filing cabinets. The menus number in the thousands, and date from the late 1800's to the......

Does food writing matter? It's a question that food writers ask themselves in moments of self-doubt, and it's a question Monica Bhide asked on her blog back in August. When there's so much going on in the world, does what we eat and cook warrant our time and attention as......