Jonathan Gold

Dear Mr. Gold: My husband and I, originally from Connecticut, are fairly new to L.A., and have had a hard time finding good Chinese food. This is our first year as a married couple and we're looking for a nice restaurant in which to restart our tradition of Chinese dinner......

When poet Suzanne Lummis asked me about "noir" restaurants for a literary series she was curating, the first place that came to mind was Nick's Cafe, a battered diner I hadn't been to since the old railyard it faced out onto had been upgraded to the Los Angeles Historic State......

Click here for Anne Fishbein's slide show. If a deranged chef held a fish knife to my throat and demanded that I name the greatest chunk of food writing ever put into print, I'm pretty sure that after a bit of waffling about Calvin Trillin and Collette and a rant......

Dear Mr. Gold: New York City has the legendary halal carts at 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue. Please tell me Los Angeles has something similar. --Joseph Saranglo, via Facebook......

Some new small-plates restaurants are content to serve you hamburgers and fries. Others bring in influences from Singapore, Copenhagen or Tokyo. But the menu at Bäco Mercat, the new restaurant from Joseph Centeno of Lazy Ox, reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism, mixing flavors from Italy, France,......

Click here for Anne Fishbein's slideshow. Last year was L.A.'s year of ramen, if you're keeping score, the year when the utility noodle bowl became a fetish object, and even casual eaters began to go on about tonkotsu broth and flavor bombs, kotteri and fresh negi, and my friends seemed......

If you've been around the back of the Farmers Market lately, you've probably noticed an odd glass appendage, and the funk of charred meat, and a waxing throng whose average age seems at least 20 years younger than the one next door at Du-Par's, a patio you'd swear didn't exist......

Dear Mr. Gold: The most authentic borscht in L.A. -- other than at Grandma's kitchen? --Devin Saez, via Facebook......

Click here for Anne Fishbein's slideshow. May we get this out of the way? Because whatever impression you take away from MB Post, whether you are there for the killer mojitos, the giant french fries or the waitresses who look as if they just got off the Beach Volleyball Tour,......

Congratulations, Highland Park! Because you've finally transcended a soul-crushing abundance of taqueros, great bars and really good regional Mexican restaurants with a slightly befuddling celebrity-chef-owned trattoria of your very own. The conceit here is re-invented red-sauce Italian cooking, enlivened by high design -- plywood fins; green soffiting; red walls etched......