Susan Park

It's been over three years since L.A. architect Dustin Miles announced that he'd open a Southeast Asian restaurant in the old Ace Trophy building on Rose Avenue. Meanwhile, Superba Snack Bar, which opened in 2012, has helped turn the sleepy stretch of Venice into a dining destination.  The journey to......

While Los Angeles has long embraced elevated dining at hole-in-the-wall restaurants, Sun Valley is hardly known as a destination-dining neighborhood, with the exception maybe of Rocio's Moles de los Dioses, which has been closed since arsonists set it on fire in August.  But Ali Haider wasn't worried about opening 786......

In recent years, Los Angeles has been enjoying a resurgence of American-style barbecue with restaurants such as Spring Street Smoke House, Chop Daddy and Horse Thief. But when it comes to barbecue in L.A., Korean barbecue reigns supreme. There seems to be a restaurant with tabletop grills in every strip......

BBQ Crown opened three years ago in a tiny shack that previously housed a take-out coffee shop, in the same strip mall as Koreatown stalwart Mandarin House. The signage is riddled with Konglish, such as “Food Revelation” and “duck soup simmering with variety of healthy herbs." There's leftover branding from......

Los Angeles has Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Little Osaka, Thai Town and Chinatown. However, Cambodian cuisine is largely off the radar for most Angelenos, despite the fact that Long Beach is home to more than 20,000 people of Cambodian descent — and a designated Cambodia Town. In the 1970s, Cambodian refugees,......