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If there's a cheesecake on the menu, I'm ordering it. I appreciate New York-style, Italian-style, the cloudlike wedges at Yangban Society and the frozen "deli-style" ones that come in the blue box at Trader Joe's. I don't discriminate when it...

After you've devoured toast covered with shelled clams and near-molten leeks alongside a few intricately garnished plates of vegetables, and tried not to fill up completely on trout and pork chop entrees, the lemon-chamomile semifreddo at Bar...

Spending an afternoon with Shohreh Aghdashloo is what I imagine hanging out with the president of the United States is like. There are selfies with fans, calls of adoration from across the street and even a photo opp with a smiling baby. As soon...

Los Angeles is a town of many burgers. Thick steakhouse burgers, smash burgers, really smashed burgers, fast-food burgers, vegan burgers, pastrami-topped burgers and everything in between. We have it all, and we have Alton Brown and the Food...

It became clear right away that Kiyong "Ki" Kim was bringing a fresh and ambitious perspective to Korean flavors with his restaurant Kinn in Koreatown. His 20-seat space opened late in 2021, veering almost immediately from a la carte to a...

When Kiyong “Ki” Kim opened his 20-seat restaurant, Kinn, in Koreatown late in 2021, he funneled all the ideas and ambitions that had been percolating in his brain for years into a 10-item menu of starters and entrees. Kim had cooked in the...

This week's column comes with a warning and an apology. Half of the stuff I'm about to mention is 2,800 miles away. I'm sorry. But you now have a short list of places to try on your next trip east. I was in New York last week for our annual Coast...

I've never been an American breakfast person. I've mentioned this before, in a column about cachapas, the Venezuelan pancakes that easily trump flapjacks. I didn't grow up eating waffles or scrambled eggs. But a sweet rice roll with a doughnut in...

It was nearly a year ago that the Food team began knocking around an idea in our weekly meetings: What if we tackled an all-in project on L.A.’s sushi culture? Sushi’s presence here began taking root with the Japanese American communities...

At a tiny sushi counter in this boundless capital's southwest suburbs, nine of us sat silent and alert waiting for Koji Kimura to finish readying his lunchtime service. We whispered our drink orders to the restaurant’s lone server while listening...