The AnQi Phở is no piddling bowl of broth, noodle and tendon, gulped down in some Westminster dive at 2 a.m. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) This is phở of another caliber, and at a minimum cost of $5,000 per bowl, it's definitely meant to be savored. Made......
The newest location of Cafe Rio Mexican Grill, in Lakewood, is giving out free meals all day today, form 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. It's part of a promo to mark the restaurant's opening. There will, however, be a tip jar next to the cash register soliciting donations for The......
Our neighbors to the south are cracking down on a serious scourge: How much underboob can a waitress show? None, if the Garden Grove City Council has its way. Council members want to amend an existing ordinance to clarify that women cannot expose any part of their breasts below the......
The people of Fairfax deserve a well-thought-out watering hole. The Fat Dog, unfortunately, isn't it. Recently opened in a charmless, multi-story complex that seems emblematic of the mania for pre-fab mixed use developments, the Fat Dog is nominally a gastropub but with so little attention paid to the food that......
Like bizarre, oversized "Save The Date" wedding cards, billboards warning of the impending Apocalypse have been popping up all over Los Angeles. Sponsored by Judgment Day fetishist Harold Camping and his Family Radio Network, they promote his "incontrovertible" theory that the beginning of the end happens on May 21st. Don't......
It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Media Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the......
With new and ever fancier "gourmet" sodas hitting the market, consumers (presumably) want to know whether those gourmet drinks, advertised as being made with natural ingredients, actually contain natural flavoring. Now scientists think have a way to find out -- at least with cola......
The latest installment in our sporadic series about life behind the kitchen door features Jason Michaud, the 39-year-old owner of Local. At his two-and-a-half-year-old Silver Lake cafe, he is committed not just to local produce and sustainable environmental practices but to paying employees a living wage and using fair labor......
If you haven't had enough of brunch after Mother's Day, grilled cheese maestro and Foundry chef/owner Eric Greenspan will be throwing a pop-up brunch at Tart, May 13th-15th. The fancily renovated in-house restaurant of the Farmers Daughter motel will play home to Greenspan's menu of stuffed hashbrowns, a Hawaiian Benedict......
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