A secret sushi bar at Coachella 2022 and Outstanding in the Field

Sushi Bar is hard to find by design. The speak-easy-inspired sushi counter is tucked into the soaring, open-air Encino Place mall, a beigy fortress of high-end boutiques and half-empty cafes. You ride the escalator to the second story, where...

One of the best tasting menus in Los Angeles is served on a folding table, in a dark alley next to a dumpster. It’s where Justin Pichetrungsi hosts his omakase dinners, behind Anajak Thai, his family’s Sherman Oaks restaurant. It is the meal I...

You can call it a tasting menu. You can call it omakase. You can call it dégustation, a banquet menu or modern kaiseki. What it tends to be is a meal made up of dozens of small tastes, served in exquisite rhythm, where the courses, their order and...

Salutations: It’s the hap-hap-happiest time of the year here in the snug environs of Planet Food. And by that, I refer neither to the joyful week of stollen and dreidel-shaped cookies, nor to the annual celebration of Russ Parsons’ mother's...

Imagínese que atraviesa una puerta sin marcar y se encuentra con un restaurante de 300 pies cuadrados. En el centro hay un mostrador para sólo 12 comensales. Una tabla de cortar está colocada a unas pulgadas de su asiento. Al otro lado del...