Jean Trinh

The folks behind a pop-up bar traveling cross-country are paying homage to the golden age of cocktails by bringing 150-year-old recipes from a library of rare and vintage drink books along for the ride. The Traveller Bar is on a two-year road trip through 20 of the Loews hotel locations coast to coast. Currently, you can find......

The friends behind the Pico House food truck, whose culinary pedigree runs the gamut of Bestia to the world-renowned Blue Hill, are not just changing up the scene with their seriously good gourmet grain bowls. They've also done something we wish we could do with our childhood best friends —......

Filipino cuisine is having a big moment in L.A. right now, and RiceBar is one of the local restaurants that has been adding to its rising star power. (It was just named one of Bon Appétit's best new restaurants.) After successfully slinging lunchtime rice bowls for the past year, the......

The newest culinary addition to Highland Park isn't so much an entire restaurant, but a small bagel operation situated behind a nondescript window at the Hi Hat music venue, where they're slinging some expertly hand-rolled, carb wheels. The window, which is open Thursdays through Sundays for take-out orders, is a......

The folks behind Salt & Straw are no strangers to whipping up outlandish ice cream concoctions and their new fermentation-focused flavors are no exception. Head ice cream maker Tyler Malek—who previously created batches of the sweet stuff that tasted more like a loaded baked potato than anything you'd traditionally put......

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. The newest addition to the Pasadena bar scene is Bull & Barrel — the chill......

While the fine cuts of meat may get all the attention at Belcampo, barman Josh Goldman's innovative craft cocktails at the butcher shop's Santa Monica restaurant also deserve their day in the sun. Belcampo recently debuted Goldman's new spring cocktail menu, and it's filled with drinks will blow your mind. Goldman......

Watts and Compton might be best known as the cultural birthplace of gangster rap, but they also reign supreme in another way: delicious, home-style food. A lot of love goes into this cooking. While Roy Choi's Locol may have blown up the Watts scene, there are institutions with long histories......

When new restaurants open around 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. It's been nearly three years since diners last stepped into SBE Entertainment Group's shuttered Mercato di Vetro......

A new restaurant just down the street from the Beverly Center is making a jump into the Taiwanese-fusion game, bringing out the flavors of scallion pancakes and beef rolls in sandwich form. M CON — short for "Modern Convenience" — is the brainchild of 32-year-old Jeffrey Ko. The cheery and......