Beloved Seafood Restaurant Closes

Fancy vegetables. Photo by Anne Watson Photography Have you ever noticed that South Coast Plaza’s Nordstrom wing has a distinctive aroma of freshly pressed linen? To me, it smells like opulence and wealth. It is in this rarefied air that a new,...

Some restaurants just aren't very good ideas during the hot summer months. Korean soft tofu joints, with their boiling iron cauldrons of soup. Fondue restaurants. Teppanyakis—really, anything that involves scalding-hot broth, open flames or live...

Dock Your PaycheckThe food is pricey, the clientele is Peninsular, but the skilled hands in the DockNs kitchen make for a welcome port, even in this economic storm We were outnumbered by rich people. Some arrived after crossing the marina on a...

Have you been to Long Beach's so-called Retro Row, a strip of Fourth Street between Junipero and Cherry avenues? It's home to vintage-clothing shops, a handful of hip restaurants and the Art Theatre, which is currently playing Richard Linklater's...

If your idea of Mexican food includes huitlacoche or lengua tacos slung out from roach coaches, go to Gustavo Arellano's This Hole-in-the-Wall Life column. There, you'll often read tips on food cooked to please discriminating Mexican palates...