Best thing I ate: Don’t sleep on this lemon-curd morning bun

When you eat out every day like I do, it’s easy to forget about much of what you eat. But then there are those other meals or dishes that won’t let you stop thinking about them: a pizza, a burger, a bowl of ramen, Spanish, Italian, Bosnian… These...

We all have particular ideas of what a porridge restaurant might look like, whether a Hong Kong-style congee shop like Delicious Corner in Monterey Park or a Taiwanese porridge hall like Lu’s Garden in San Gabriel, Atlacatl and its list of...

Breakfast, lunch, dinner… it’s all good. Saline in Laguna Beach is one of the coast’s best new restaurants, even if most people can’t or won’t end up eating there. Technically anyone can eat at Saline, but only if you book a room and stay...

I’m the sort of gambler who watches $20 disappear in the slot machine and then calls it a night. And my evenings spent romping around nightclubs are long over. But I still find myself in Vegas multiple times a year in search of great food and...

Our region’s drinking culture can express as much about the breadth of our communities as our dining landscapes. These ten bars, restaurants and shops — some newly opened, some well-established — are favorites where the atmosphere matches the...