Besha Rodell

As you enter the newish downtown restaurant Industriel , two giant faces greet you at the door. The man and woman stare out at Grand Ave., the man wearing a kerchief and hat, the woman wearing her hardscrabble life with weary beauty. You know without having been told that these......

The east side of downtown L.A. is getting a new marketplace early next year called Urban Radish. The market will be located in the 8,200-square-foot metal shed with the giant chipmunk mural on it, located across from the Toy Factory Lofts......

Rather than write a review for this week's Fork Lift column, I instead visited Spago for a last meal before Wolfgang Puck's legendary Beverly Hills restaurant undergoes a facelift and menu transformation. The restaurant's spokesperson says that the food will be going in "a totally different direction," and that Puck's......

In terms of cool food-science-nerd equipment, Cafe Demitasse wins. The Kyoto-style iced coffee setup is a beauty to behold, all glass and metal and orbs and tubes. Cold water drips slowly through the apparatus, extracting a wholly different flavor from the coffee. It takes 14 hours to make three liters......

See more of Anne Fishbein's photography from Spago. "There's only one Spago, and this isn't it," an older gentleman declares to the woman behind the bar at Spago. At first, she looks taken aback. She's been explaining to him what the staff of Wolfgang Puck's legendary Beverly Hills restaurant will......

A new food truck specializing in onigiri, the triangular Japanese rice balls containing various savory fillings, will launch in Los Angeles in two weeks. Rice & Roll is operated by Fuji Foods, a company that claims to be "Japan's #1 seller of onigiri." You can look for updates about the......

The Undercover Vegetarian is a series in which we look at the vegetarian options at a non-vegetarian restaurant. Maison Giraud (reviewed this week) is a restaurant with a lot of vegetarian options. Unfortunately, most of those options pale in comparison to the meatier dishes on the menu......

The cocktail revolution is well documented. In bars and restaurants across the country, the American cocktail has returned. But the serious booze professionals I know argue that if the cocktail is truly to take root again as part of our national identity, it must make the leap from the barstool......

This week's review is of Maison Giraud, Alain Giraud's bakery and bistro in the Pacific Palisades. We urge you to read the review, but offer this handy cheat sheet for those with a shorter attention span......

See more of Anne Fishbein's photography from Maison Giraud. Those of us who love restaurants tend to have a specific memory of where and when that affair began — an origin story for our dining obsession. And while fine dining is fading in its importance, it's still the thing that......