Besha Rodell

How attached are you to your phone? Mildly? Or pathologically? That's the question you really need to answer when confronted with Eva Restaurant's new discount: You get 5% off if you leave your phone at the door. Chef-owner Mark Gold tells KPCC, "It's really not about people disrupting other guests......

It's easy to see by looking at a restaurant's menu what a chef's tastes and influences are. But what tools did they use to get there? And what tools do they still use, at work and at home, to draw inspiration? We decided to ask chefs around L.A. what cookbooks......

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 67: Son of a Gun's Uni and Burrata. There are quite a few contenders for favorites on Son of a Gun's menu, dishes that......

Last week I had a frustrating service experience with a sommelier at one of L.A.'s most highly regarded restaurants. It's something that has happened to me before, and it has to do with what "not too expensive" means to different people......

Last week, a commenter on the "Talk" question boards on the Serious Eats website asked people what their favorite fictional foods are. It turns out many of us have shared strong relationships with the foods in the books we grew up reading......

Sick of talking about Chick-fil-A? Me too. Sick of very fast recipe rapping? Uuuhh, no, me neither. The recent controversy over Chick-fil-A's involvement in the anti-same-sex marriage movement has inspired Mac Lethal, a Kansas City rapper, to perhaps start a new trend: the recipe rap. Check it out (warning: PG-13......

The Republic of Laughter on Melrose Avenue is now open, and it's pretty damn funny. Chef Govind Armstrong created the menu, which is described as "artfully designed, conscientiously sourced fare." The chef de cuisine is Jacob Wildman, who will be the on-site chef type person. But that's not what's so......

L&E Oyster Bar, which is the subject of this week's restaurant review, is a seafood joint, and as such, it's a pescatarian's paradise. There's very little meat on the menu -- bacon in the clam chowder, chorizo on some toast, one lone steak sandwich. The rest is all fish and......

Where the Chefs Eat will be an ongoing series in which we ask a local chef to give us his or her favorite spots for everyday or cheap dining options. This week, Providence's chef Michael Cimarusti tells us his regular spots. "For Mexican, I go to My Taco a lot......

This week I review L&E Oyster Bar in Silver Lake. Here are a few outtakes from the review to whet your appetite: Food: The star of the show here is the oysters, from all over the Northeast, West Coast and as far away as New Zealand. But there's also simple......