At the Southern-style Hatchet Hall, Jonathan Gold finds good times, then takes home great leftovers

In the late 18th century, Hercules Ceaser and James Hemings were among America’s first celebrity chefs. They were also enslaved, property of America’s first and third presidents, respectively. Hemings (you may have heard of his sister Sally) was...

Cooking with fire is hot these days. At Hatchet Hall, Brian Dunsmoor prepares nearly everything in a blazing brick hearth. At Bavel, Ori Menashe sears his lamb neck over a roaring fire and bakes fresh pita in a wood-fueled oven. But at the new...

Beloved Culver City Southern-ish restaurant Hatchet Hall is offering hearty family meals for two for pickup or delivery, priced at $79. The current menu includes potato rolls with honey butter, country ham, red oak leaf lettuces, scalloped...

There was a kid in my middle-school class who used to eat straight butter. I remember him pulling gold foil-wrapped squares out of his lunch pail, like the ones you get with a basket of bread in a chain restaurant. He'd eat them as a snack. The...

Imagine you are visiting a restaurant that is as comfortable and familiar as a friend’s living room, where the music is good, but where you are largely ignorant of the cuisine. Some of the dishes you recognize — hummus, falafel, chicken kebab...