Farley Elliott

There's some Mexican food on the move in Culver City today. Santa Ana's Casa Oaxaca, which has rather quietly been serving up moles, xochitl soup, tlayudas and other Oaxacan specialties for a few years now, is set to expand to Los Angeles. And best of all -- their new digs......

The strangest things will bring you out to a strip mall -- a GIGANTIC strip mall known as Diamond Hills Plaza -- in Diamond Bar. Sometimes it's a whisper, a notion that somewhere in the great abyss of low-slung restaurants and hidden eateries you can find the flavors you've been......

Los Angeles is having a seafood moment. New-age clam shacks and haute oyster bars are tucking into neighborhood spaces and building out into massive new digs at an unbelievable pace. Even the lobster roll, that sometimes rubbery, thick with mayonnaise or hot with butter lunch snack, is popping up in......

Los Angeles is a big city, with endless strip mall dining options. So far, we've covered mega-sites like the nine stop strip mall on Vine in Hollywood, and a small Marina del Rey mall with big, saucy meatballs, but the city extends far beyond those borders. This week offers a......

It's not hard to sit down in front of a tasty steak in this town. Upscale options abound, with prices that quickly reach into the triple digits once you tack on a side of asparagus and that all-important glass of red wine. So what's a hungry carnivore without big bucks......

Lots of meat eaters already know the name Adam Perry Lang. After all, this is the man who brought his best-selling cookbook Serious Barbecue down from the smoked-meat mountaintop. His pedigree is perhaps even more well known: Culinary Institute of America, stints at Le Cirque, Daniel and Guy Savoy, with......

If you've been driving around the intersection of La Brea and Wilshire, squinting to find the original 985-square foot home of Umami Burger, you can rest your eyes: It's gone. In its place is True Burger, which took over the space earlier this year and quietly began grilling burgers a......

After a Fourth of July spent celebrating America's greatest cultural landmarks (and drinking lots of beer), Los Angeles is set to lose an institution of their own. With none of the fireworks or bunting, a simple post on the Tom Bergin's Tavern Facebook page announced their impending closure on Sunday......

More than just a bastion for forgotten eateries, strip malls often serve a vital purpose as an easy lunch options for droves of office workers. That's certainly the case for the Wilshire Crescent strip mall, on the southeast corner of (you guessed it) Wilshire Boulevard and Crescent Heights. The long,......

Not all strip malls are created equal. Some, squat and lifeless with little more than a coin-op laundromat as their anchor, are destined to be invisible from the ordinary eater's eye. Others, like the looming two-story monster on the corner of Fountain and Vine in Hollywood, are the subject of......