Heather Platt

Hollywood’s restaurant scene is about to get even meatier. The in-house butcher shop at brothers Curtis and Luke Stone's forthcoming restaurant Gwen is set to open on Thursday, weeks ahead of the dining space itself. The European-style shop is headed by Alex Jermasek (formerly of Lindy and Grundy, Ink, Chi......

When an exciting new restaurant opens in Los Angeles, L.A. Weekly heads in for a First Look, a short review based on a single visit.  If you're hungry for more, see our starred restaurant reviews. When Kris Tominaga took over as executive chef of the Paligroup earlier this year, it was......

When an exciting new restaurant opens in Los Angeles, L.A. Weekly heads in for a First Look, a short review based on a single visit. If you're hungry for more, see our starred restaurant reviews. Nearly a year after chef David Schlosser announced plans to open Shibumi, the eagerly-anticipated Kappo-style......

Coal-roasted oysters, charred corn empanadas and ember-cooked prawns are just some of the mouth-watering summer dishes you'll find in Portland-based chefs Gregg Denton and Gabrielle Quiñónez-Denton's new cookbook, Around The Fire. On Monday, you'll have a chance to taste those dishes and others when the Portland-based chefs (best known as the masterminds behind......

“Most of you have never been in a video cube," says Montgomery Knott, the founder and curator of touring video art and food pop-up, Monkey Town.  It's a safe assumption — but it goes without saying that anyone who signs up for his out-of-the-box and into-the-cube dining experience is probably looking to......

When an exciting new restaurant opens in Los Angeles, L.A. Weekly heads in for a First Look, a short review based on a single visit. If you're hungry for more, see our starred restaurant reviews. Ammo, the modern American farm-to-table restaurant that thrived in Hollywood for two decades, reinvented itself......

When an exciting new restaurant opens in Los Angeles, L.A. Weekly heads in for a First Look, a short review based on a single visit. If you're hungry for more, see our starred restaurant reviews. With its large gold signage and asymmetrical structure, Miro, the new California-inspired restaurant on the edge......

On South Central Avenue between East 5th and 6th Streets, a brand new Tesla pulls up in front of an ugly brick building. It is 11:30 a.m. on a Tuesday and the car full of smartly dressed lunch breakers spill out of the vehicle to join the throngs of hungry......

It is hard to miss Chicas Tacos, the latest taqueria to grace downtown L.A.’s rapidly growing restaurant scene. Despite being housed inside the small and unassuming bodega space on South Olive Street that once housed Mama’s Asian Cuisine, a tall neon sign points to the newly renovated space below. If......