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Dining out for breakfast in Southern California is, at its finest, an expression of community and intersecting cultures: Yemeni shakshouka in Anaheim, broiled mackerel with miso soup and salt pickles in Little Tokyo, catfish and grits in...

I am not a fan of stuffing just any kind of food into a tortilla and calling it a taco, but the pastrami taco from a pop-up restaurant called Malli could be the most Los Angeles, of-the-moment thing I’ve eaten all year. When it works (e.g., Roy...

A new sushi restaurant, Seabutter, recently opened in Laguna Beach in the upstairs spot previously occupied by Sushi San Shi Go overlooking the main drag south of downtown. The menu skews toward California “new style” sushi and sashimi, which is...

Diner lovers mourned in January when it was announced that the 101 Coffee Shop would be closing. This fall, it’s coming back to life. Zack Hall, the founder-owner of Clark Street Bread, is taking over the space, but it won’t be another location of...

A Syrian flag waves outside Mama’s Shawarma, a black food truck that started parking in front of Ralphs supermarket in Glendale this spring. The logo depicts Chef Eyad Kawak wearing sunglasses, standing in front of two flame-licked spits. He...

Valley sushi superstar Mark Okuda has some things to prove on the Westside. “People see Valley sushi as more like rolls,” says Okuda, who’s working to open a Santa Monica outpost of the Brothers Sushi in October. “I want to show them that we use...

On Aug. 28, 1971, a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher named Alice Waters opened a restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Waters had studied abroad in France six years earlier and, back home, longed to emulate the notions of hospitality and...

The great ramen swarm continues. More than a half dozen additional ramen shops have opened in Orange County in the past six months, and the most impressive of this new crop is Gyutan Ramen in Irvine’s University Center. “Gyutan” is the Japanese...