Besha Rodell

The restaurant boom in the San Fernando Valley shows no signs of slowing, and today we get news of another new venue, this time in Woodland Hills. Tuccio's will open in early December in the old Cafe Fiore space in the Warner Center on Oxnard St., with chef Gavin Humes (formerly of......

At Soregashi, the two owners have a straightforward aim to present Japanese food as authentically as possible. "Lots of places here serve California-style sushi and Japanese food," manager Tsuyoshi Kawada says. "We are trying to make very simple food, very Japanese."...

Chef Erwin Tjahyadi has a lot of love for food trucks. His own restaurant, Komodo, began as a food truck in 2009 and gained him immense success for dishes such as the phorrito, as well as kimchee nachos and a ramen burrito. In 2011 the first brick and mortar location......

What is it that we love so very much about the hidden restaurant/bar/deli? Could it be that our DNA is encoded with the thrill of discovery? Our hunter-gatherer days are not so long gone (in the grand scheme of things) — perhaps we're genetically inclined to get a kick of dopamine......

Here's something I learned early on in my career: If you really want to get people riled up, write about kids in restaurants. It doesn't matter if you write a pro-kid story or an anti-kid story. Hell, you could probably just write something that said "Kids in restaurants!" over and......

These past few months have been especially hard on most people's capacity for national pride, and it's been easy to fall into a pit of despair over the state of our culture. So amid this glut of negativity, let us take solace in the small victories. Let us be thankful......

It's hard to believe that when L&E Oyster Bar opened almost in early 2012, Silver Lake was lacking in quality modern, casual restaurants, or that Los Angeles was lacking in neighborhood seafood restaurants. L&E helped to usher in a new era of dining in the neighborhood, as well as a......

In this week's review of 71Above, I begin with a question: "As the great middle ground takes over dining in L.A. and beyond, we're left with an odd conundrum: Where can you go for a truly special occasion?" It's one of the questions I get asked most frequently as a......

When Kitchen Mouse opened in June 2014 on Figueroa in Highland Park, it gave the neighborhood a sunny option for vegetarian (and mainly vegan) breakfast and lunch fare, serving as a casual cafe from morning to afternoon. Two years later, Kitchen Mouse has expanded its hours and is now serving dinner on weekdays until 8 p.m....

Like just about everything Baroo chef Kwang Uh does, the doughnut he's created for Alma sounds kind of insane. The doughnut is the first in a series being presented at Alma at the Standard, as part of a collaboration series chef Ari Taymor has launched called Doughnuts With Friends. Every......