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My last memorable restaurant experience in 2020 was in November at one of the city’s modern classics: A.O.C. on West 3rd Street. I couldn’t have known the meal would be a finish of sorts to the year. It was about two weeks before the Los Angeles...

“Do you prefer vegan or just vegetarian?” the woman on the other end of the phone asks when I call to make a reservation at Taste of Beauty, a new Chinese fusion vegetarian restaurant in Fountain Valley. Open only a couple of months, the...

If the point of dining out is to order something that you can’t make at home, then brunch is a consistently underwhelming endeavor. Eggs and french toast can be whipped up in an instant in any kitchen. Moreover, they can tend to become overpriced...

Scallops don’t get much better than these. And these are only available three nights a week, for now. Chef Amar Santana and his team opened The Hall at South Coast Plaza a few weeks before the pandemic came to town. And while the mall has more or...

Since launching in 2013, Goldbelly has built a thriving business that enables customers to order favorite food items from around the country via express delivery with UPS or FedEx and, often, a lot of dry ice. The e-commerce platform did...

When Adrian Miller was writing his first, award-winning book “Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time,” he originally planned to include a chapter on barbecue. In soul food restaurants, barbecued pork is often an...

Your eyes do not deceive you: yes, that is Nancy Silverton in a recent Subway TV ad. The local culinary legend and James Beard Award-winner is sandwiched between a series of athletes (Steph Curry and Serena Williams among them) in the new TV spot...

At House of Mandi in Anaheim, a young server requires both hands to hoist a platter full of gold. The menu labels it “No. 7,” a hulking tray of rice, chicken and lamb stained in sunset shades of turmeric and saffron. So many meaty, half-buried...

This story is a component of the feature “Seasons of Preserves: Stone Fruit,” which is part of a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. in a Jar.” If all this talk of jam has you scrambling for a spoon and a jar, here are some...

Mazara Trattoria is sandwiched between an old Mexican bakery and a Thai takeout joint in vintage Huntington Beach strip mall that seems stuck in a time warp. When I dined at this 40-seat Italian cafe nearly a decade ago, I thought the food was...