Bon Temps, One of the Best New Restaurants of 2019, Is Closing

Restaurants provide solace, sustenance, acceptance, joy and a much-needed escape for countless communities. The employees who greet you at the door, take your order and mix your cocktails are essential workers who create memories and make magic...

When Ferran Adrià announced the death of Juli Soler on Monday, the food world went into shock. In English, Spanish and Catalan, Adrià tweeted: “The saddest news I wish that I have never had to bear.” Soler, who had run El Bulli with Adrià, died...

There is a moment on season three, episode three of Julia Child’s Baking with Julia where a young Nancy Silverton is visibly gripped with terror. After eating a forkful of Silverton’s brioche tart with hot wine syrup, Child starts to weep....

Tasty pastry. Photo by Shannon Aguiar When I included the new Moroccan place in Costa Mesa called Casablanca The Restaurant in my weekly blog roundup of new eateries a few months ago, I had no intention of reviewing it. It was previously another...

For decades, Rafael “Ray” Vega made the rounds in the brick-lined dining room of Casa Vega restaurant in Sherman Oaks, dressed sharply in a sweater vest with a name tag fastened to the front. “Hi, I’m Ray Vega and this is Casa Vega,” he would say....