Christine Chiao

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (coming out Oct. 3), we'll be bringing you periodic lists of some of the best things we've found to eat and drink around town. Ice cream sandwiches and bowls of tsukemen, fish tacos and dan dan mian, cups of boba and......

Sometimes roasting a pig well, so that the skin is crisp and the meat unyieldingly rich, is best left to a trained professional. On Sunday, Aug. 18, there'll be not one but two highly skilled chefs -- both Top Chef alums, no less. Suzanne Tracht and Nyesha Arrington will collaborate......

Since The Raymond's 1886 Bar re-opened to the public in late April, it's paid homage to classics in food and drink and those who've made an impact on our understanding of them. The inaugural menu that launched the new bar program included a nod to soda jerks and Charles H......

It's been about three months since the cronut entered our culinary lexicon, introduced by Dominique Ansel at his bakery in Manhattan, and the fervor doesn't seem to have dampened. In Los Angeles, there are sightings from DK's Donuts in Santa Monica to Frances Bakery in Little Tokyo, coming in various......

It takes watching just a few episodes of The Simpsons to know that food and drink are at times recurring characters and at other times plot devices. The doughnut alone has shown us various shades of Homer's vulnerabilities; he traded his soul for one in "Treehouse of Horror IV." As......

The French have a justfiably deep-rooted attachment to their culinary tradition -- at times viewing any threat, for example in the form of fast food, with their defenses dialed way up. According to the Associated Press, it'd appear this anxiety has not dissipated, as some of the country's lawmakers are......

All-You-Can-Eat New England Seafood Boil This is Not a Pop-Up will return with a traditional New England clambake and seafood boil cooked by Adrien Nieto of Fox's MasterChef and The Jolly Oyster at Villains Tavern in the Arts District. The menu will include seafood classics and sides such as sweet......

Los Angeles is, as we recently noted, a town that happily -- and proudly -- gets its doughnut (or donut) fix from independent shops. Giving us another reason to maintain this tradition, Kettle Glazed Doughnut will open tomorrow, Aug. 6, at the busy intersection of Frankln and the 101. It......

Check out our annual restaurant issue, which this year celebrates desserts, out this Thursday, Aug. 8. You could follow a road map to get around Los Angeles -- or you could simply trust your nose. From the tantalizing aroma of roast duck in the San Gabriel Valley to bacon-wrapped hot......