Garrett Snyder

I can't think of a more unexpectedly great meal this year than what I recently experienced at Kato, a minuscule restaurant in West L.A. that serves only tasting menus. What makes Kato — named after the Green Hornet's masked sidekick, once played by a young Bruce Lee — so improbable?......

At Aburiya Raku in Las Vegas, finding an empty table before midnight can be difficult. For years, the off-strip izakaya located in the city's small Chinatown district has been a popular late-night haunt for Vegas chefs and other food-world insiders, a Japanese-style Cheers where grilled skewers and bottles of sake......

Are you sick of healthy food trends like kale salad and poké? If so, 2016 might be the year for you, a time when Los Angeles is rediscovering its torrid love affair with the wonderful magic that occurs when poultry meets hot oil.  That’s not to say this city isn't......

In 2014, the fast food chain Arby's launched a marketing campaign based on the catchphrase "We have the meats." You might know the commercials: Most feature a baritone narrator and visuals of thick-cut brisket. At a time when other fast food restaurants were pitching kale salads to their customers, Arby's......

For the past week or so, I've had the same dish stuck in my head, spinning over and over like a record on repeat. In Ethiopia, it's called bozena shiro — a lush, silky stew made from ground chickpea flour, clarified butter, a laundry list of fragrant spices and tiny......

It's dinnertime on a Tuesday evening, and I'm standing outside the Purple Haze Smoke Shop in Hermosa Beach kicking myself. After an hour spent crawling south on the 405, I showed up at Baran's 2239 — a tiny, strip-mall bistro that opened in March, next door to the aforementioned smoke......

If there is an unwritten rule of the New American bistro, it is this: Thou shalt serve a gourmet burger. It probably will arrive on a brioche bun. It likely will include aioli and arugula. It almost always will be pricier than you think it should be. So you might......

The red-hot Silver Lake restaurant scene got another boost last week with the arrival of Sawyer, a casual-ish seafood restaurant decked out with a rustic California vibe and a large garden patio. Restauranteur Beau Laughlin and chef Alex McWilliams, the latter a former East Coast chef who's worked under Tom......

If you squint your eyes at the cactus-silhouetted sunset dropping behind the dusty patio at Salazar, you could almost pretend you're in Tijuana — and we mean that in a good way. The latest concept to hit the L.A. River-adjacent community of Frogtown is Salazar — which opens for business......

One of the most popular food stalls in Grand Central Market, Wexler's Deli, is set to open its much-anticipated second location in Santa Monica at the end of the week. Chef-owner Micah Wexler and partner Michael Kassar will be transporting their hit list of old school Jewish delicatessen favorites to......