Joshua Lurie

The banh mi is a delicious byproduct of French colonialism in Vietnam (which officially lasted from 1887 to 1954). The French brought baguettes to help fuel sandwiches, which were filled with French meats like pates and eventually incorporated Vietnamese proteins and flavors.  The prototypical banh mi incorporates a crusty baguette with......

Stephanie Franz, pastry chef at The Strand House in Manhattan Beach, routinely serves brioche doughnuts crafted with rich Wüthrich butter from Wisconsin. On Sundays, she takes it a step further: She tops a different glazed doughnut with cream and a scoop of ice cream —and inserts a liquid injector to......

One of L.A. County's first breweries — Strand Brewing Co., which front man Rich Marcello and business brewmaster/partner Joel Elliott founded in 2009 in a Torrance industrial park — is now expanding to a new facility that’s an astounding 40 times its original size. By August, Strand should be up......

If you’ve ever been on a scavenger hunt, you know the search is as much about the process of discovery as it is about finding the actual item. That’s the case with the secret menu at Menotti’s Coffee Stop, a renowned coffee bar that longtime coffee pro Christopher “Nicely” Abel......

It’s becoming more difficult to find a specialty coffee house without a flashy neon sign, savvy branding or Instagram-ready floor tile. House Roots Coffee is the antithesis. It's located on the second floor of a building in back of the Valley Korean United Methodist Church’s compound in Granada Hills. On......

Plenty of chefs, inspired by the success of the cronut or the ramen burger, are looking to create the next culinary hybrid hit. John Park, chef-owner of Quenelle, has a killer mash-up of his own: a funnel cake ice cream sandwich, which is only available Thursday nights from 5-8 p.m......

Flan is one of the best examples of the majesty of sugar, eggs and milk, with a history that dates to ancient Rome and today is best represented in the cuisines of Spain, Mexico and Latin America. Here are 10 of our favorite flans in L.A., listed in alphabetical order:......

Not many restaurateurs look to 7-Eleven for culinary inspiration, but that’s exactly where Bangkok native Amorn Bholsangngam, a partner with his brother Amnaj in Chinatown’s Chimney Coffee House, got the idea for his next-level larb burger. Back when he lived in Bangkok, Bholsangngam frequented the American-born convenience store to kill......

Forget what you know about Mongolian restaurants. The choose-your-own-ingredient places cooking stir-fry noodle dishes in oversized woks across L.A. are actually a Taiwanese invention. But with chef Ganbat Damba's Golden Mongolian Restaurant, Angelenos have an opportunity to experience true Mongolian cuisine. Damba was born in Ulan Bator, Mongolia's capital. His......

In honor of Valentine’s Day, it’s only fitting that we have heart. No, we’re not talking about artichoke hearts or hearts of palm, but this isn’t exactly that heart-in-hands scene from “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” either. Heart is the hardest working organ, regardless the animal, so the......