Farley Elliott

If you haven't been to Fifty Seven downtown, lately, now's a good time to think about making a reservation. The rotating chef concept just turned its first corner, with New York chef David Nayfeld departing in favor of Josh Drew, who most recently manned the flames at Brentwood's Farmshop, after working previously with Thomas Keller. And,......

After years of hoarding great restaurants, the South Bay is finally ready to show them off. Despite the concentration of eateries like Fishing With Dynamite and Little Sister, plus the proximity to great craft breweries like Strand, Monkish and El Segundo, Manhattan Beach has often been seen as a bridge too far for......

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2014 issue. Check out our entire People 2014 issue. If you aren't familiar with Tony Xu, it's likely because you don't speak the man's language. But there's a decent chance you've had his food. Xu, a 40-year-old Chinese emigre who......

For all of the seemingly brutish appeal of a true crawfish boil - hulking pots, untempered flame, the steaming pile of crustaceans poured over newspaper - there is something elegant about the whole thing. A largely Louisianan tradition meant to feed a few dozen people at once, a boil requires......

We've traveled far from the days of the effortlessly hip spokespenguin who graced the frosty covers of everyone's frozen Kid Cuisine dinners. Farmers markets abound with fresh produce, the locavore movement has the whole neighborhood raising chickens and foraging for herbs, and anyone caught eating a stone fruit out of season gets impaled on a reclaimed......

After more than a year, what's been keeping Del Rey Deli in Playa Del Rey going? The dinky operation sits inside a small strip mall well off the beach, and little has been typed up about them in the fourteen months since they opened the front door, yet they've been largely thriving......

This city is blessed with so many quality Thai food options, yet the smaller rumblings and neighborhood restaurant shuffles often miss out on any sort of mainstream conversation. The right Koreatown opening or San Gabriel Valley shutter can send food-minded writers into temporary Twitter flurries, but Thai Town expansions don't often garner the......

Chef Eric Greenspan is running a little leaner these days. The always-quotable chef was, when we last spoke at his sky-high dining venture The Roof on Wilshire in September, working on rebuilding his empire and dropping some weight - without losing his comfort food sensibilities, mind you. As of last week, he might be running a......

There are plenty of foods currently in the national zeitgeist, from locally-milled grains to Santa Barbara uni. Sandwiches, on the other hand, act as a sort of constant. A decent sandwich is never far away, and great ones still manage to inspire the sort of lust that makes driving to Bay Cities from......