10 great Italian restaurants

Los Angeles has never been rich in the sort of red-sauce Italian restaurants so common on the other coast, but it has always been notable for the other kind: restaurants in which Italian cooking and the idea of fine dining were not incompatible.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 21, 2014

Los Angeles has never been rich in the sort of red-sauce Italian restaurants so common on the other coast, but it has always been notable for the other kind: restaurants in which Italian cooking and the idea of fine dining were not incompatible....

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Review: Jonathan Gold wonders if the famed Italian restaurant Valentino has changed or if he has

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 10, 2017

If you have eaten Italian food in the last half-century, you have experienced the influence of Piero Selvaggio and his restaurant Valentino, which turned 45 this year. He is credited with introducing ingredients like radicchio, arugula, balsamic...

Review: At Blackship in West Hollywood, an uneven take on Japanese-Italian cooking

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • February 7, 2019

The carbonara ramen tells you much of what you need to know about Blackship, a new Japanese-Italian restaurant tucked below the Sunset Strip. It’s a ramen bowl that’s had its DNA spliced with the classic Roman pasta: A snowbank of Parmesan cheese...

Jonathan Gold finds Kettle Black's eccentric Italian illuminating. Try the octopus salad.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • September 30, 2016

How many Edison bulbs hang from the ceiling at Kettle Black? So many Edison bulbs. I got to the mid-70s the night I counted — there are more — but I got distracted by the 17-foot-high back bar, the weathered wood floor and the industrial-steel...

Zach Pollack turns Italian food upside down at Alimento

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 10, 2014

If you’ve been to a party in Silver Lake lately, gulped sulfite-free Grenache on a back porch lighted year-round with votive candles and strings of Christmas lights, you know certain things to be true. The neighborhood is not on the Eastside, no...

Review: In Venice Beach, the place to eat is Dudley Market, and the dish to try is uni-topped black risotto

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 11, 2016

If you were going to design a restaurant representing the new Venice Beach, the one where postmodern mansions crowd next to crumbling apartment blocks, and the narrow alleys sometimes resemble the streets near the Rialto, you might well come up...