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Chef Josiah Citrin may be best known for his two Michelin-starred French restaurant Melisse in Santa Monica. At home, his two teenage kids are more familiar with his Monday dinners, which for about eight months was meatless every week from last October until about June. It started as a way......

Iced boba milk tea is as close to a youth elixir as we may ever get. It's a simple recipe: Your choice of tea, plus milk and simple syrup shaken vigorously with ice until frothy, then poured over black tapioca globules slightly smaller than a marble known colloquially as boba......

With the help of chef Frankie Sawatdikiat, Kunche Vorabuta has been putting forth Northern Thai-style small plates at her restaurant, RICE Thai Tapas, since its soft open in mid-June. The restaurant has been quietly serving guests -- quite a few knew Vorabuta from her days at Sushi of Naples --......

A July 4th celebration just wouldn't be the same without some type of barbecue dish at the table, whether at home or outside. Apparently, quite a few restaurants around town share that opinion -- as most of the deals and specials we've listed below feature barbecue in one form or......

In only a few short weeks, Nguyen and Thi Tran will open Starry Kitchen inside the Grand Star Jazz Club. The couple ended their almost 10-month run at Tiara Café on Ninth Street last week. Its website now has a photo of the Bruce Lee statue right outside the lounge......

Turn on the TV for a sitcom or two these days and you'll come face to bare chest with the Zesty Guy, a character whose white t-shirt combusts while he's trying to shill Kraft's Italian salad dressing. Heavy on winks and elbow jabs, it's a self-referential strategy to mitigate the......

Harold & Belle's Summer Block Party & Crawfish Boil The 44-year-old restaurant will throw its fifth annual summer block party, an all-you-can-eat crawfish boil with live music and craft booths. An array of Creole classics will be on the menu, including gumbo, jambalaya, fried catfish and boiled crawfish. WHAT: Harold......

We may have grown accustomed by now to having quinoa as a grain option, but a quick chat with chef Ricardo Zarate of Picca, Mo-Chica, and Paichewill prove we've only just begun to explore its potential beyond having it as a side dish. "I really like to work with quinoa,......

This past Sunday, June 30, legendary Mexican chef and cookbook author Patricia Quintana closed the doors of her fine dining restaurant Izote for the final time in Mexico City. The shutter comes roughly two years after she re-opened Izote, which had closed temporarily for renovation. Quintana named her restaurant after......

There's at least one national food holiday for every single day of the year, but not all are created equal. National Ceviche Day, which is today's food holiday, is an easy holiday to observe here in Los Angeles -- as both diner and cook, given the vast array of choices......