Jonathan Gold

Nine-coil large intestine and millet porridge being what they are, Shandong cooking may be a bit less accessible to the average Angeleno than Chongqing fried chicken or beef noodle soup. Chinese gourmets consider Shandong to be one of the four essential cuisines, but the specialty dish at 101 Noodle Express,......

If you were looking for an excuse to drive down to Compton on a Saturday afternoon, you could do worse than to head to Bludso's, a puffing barbecue pit whose dining room doubles as a church on Sunday mornings, although its takeout line is a pretty good cross-section of that......

A relaxed, butter-yellow space in Glendale's car-dealer district, Palate is a fever dream of a restaurant, a dining room flowing into a cocktail lounge, a wine bar, laboratories for curing meats and aging cheeses and a well-curated wine shop that serves as a venue for some of the world's best......

When Border Grill first opened a quarter-century ago, its premise was simple: classically trained chefs, with first-rate ingredients, cooking Mexican food. Not riffs on Mexican food, or chefly reinterpretations of Mexican food, but the real thing, chiles rellenos and panuchos, roasted lamb adobo, cochinito pibil and carnitas, all served in......

The original Spago on Sunset was to New American Cooking what Meet the Beatles was to rock & roll: the one that changed the rules. Designer pizza got its start in that Sunset Strip dining room, as did fusion cooking, the notion of the celebrity chef and the idea that......