Best thing I ate: Leap of faith leads to hidden treasure at Peking in Westminster

The waitress at Cobian’s in Cypress sees me flipping through the six-page menu. It’s the third time she’s come to the table to take my order, but I’m still not ready.   “What are you looking for?” she asks.  “I’m looking for these,” I say, lifting...

After four visits, I still haven’t sampled the tacos at Playa Mesa in Costa Mesa. I keep meaning to order tacos. I mean, seriously, how can I review a Mexican restaurant and not taste the tacos? I always see something else on the menu that sounds...

The word “porridge” means something different to everyone, conjuring bowls full of soupy spoon foods from every curve of the globe. At her Historic Filipinotown restaurant Porridge + Puffs, Minh Phan begins her interpretation with a strain of...

At Da Lat Rose, a Vietnamese restaurant opening in Beverly Hills this month, one of the 12 courses will be an amuse-bouche of red rice cooked in bamboo. It’s a simple dish, but for chef Helene An, it’s loaded with meaning. Born in 1944 to...

As Jeremy Fox was developing the menu for Birdie G’s, he had an especially discerning taste tester: his three-year-old daughter, Birdie Gladys, after whom the restaurant is named. When chef de cuisine Brittany Cassidy asked the toddler what she...