Best thing I ate: This sausage is the missing link to most charcuterie plates

A lovely loaf cradles the sausage sandwiches at Wild Goose Tavern. It's big and pillowy, thicker than the average hot-dog bun, and when you bite into the chewy, slightly yeasty roll, you realize you're eating real bread—something designed for this...

Everybody loves a good banh mi. Nobody likes a bad one, but the bad ones are everywhere and multiplying. The Vietnamese sandwich made with a crusty French baguette has become a staple in Orange County — not merely in Little Saigon. A good banh mi,...

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Whenever a new sausage and beer-hall concept is reviewed, comparisons to LA's Wurstküche—which arguably created the blueprint for all sausage-and-beer joints that followed it in Southern California and beyond—must be made. So let's get it out of...

A decade ago, when you wanted a veggie burger for dinner, you could probably find a restaurant serving a patty made from mashed beans, rice and mushrooms. There were no menu items listing plant-based chicken or deli meat. Now, a growing number of...

Weiser potato and kimchi pizza from Olivia It’s hard to pinpoint chef Mario Alberto’s style of cooking. He grew up preparing traditional Mexican foods with his mother and he’s spent time in the kitchens at the decidedly Californian Gjelina, the...