Best thing I ate: This Thai shrimp salad is a game-changer

This was supposed to be a Dueling Dishes post on shrimp burritos between Del Taco and Taco Bell. But it turns out Taco Bell's Pacific Shrimp Burrito already sleeps with the fishes. It was their Lenten special last year. This year, the company is a...

  You MUST order the camarones Culichis. Photo by Edwin Goei “What kind of beer would you like for your michelada?” the waitress asked. I told her Modelo, but I only said so because I remembered it was the beer of choice the last time I was in a...

The first thing I do when I walk into Cafe Hiro is wave a salute to the man himself, Chef Hiro Ohiwa. The second thing I do is look at the blackboard. Sure, there's the regular menu, where the uni spaghetti resides, but with chefs like Ohiwa, I...

What to even say about this first week of 2021? My colleagues LZ Granderson and Gustavo Arellano express it clearly. Read (or reread) Michelle Obama’s words. As I vacillate between scrolling through apps and staring at the laptop and TV to process...

There are thousands of Japanese fast-casual chains akin to Seasons of Japan across the U.S., but only nine are actually called “Seasons of Japan.” All but the one that just opened in Irvine are located east of the Mississippi, most of them in...