Can One of the Year’s Most Anticipated Restaurants Live Up to All the Hype?

We’ve been looking forward to the launch of Onda for over a year–and at last the doors are open. Housed in the new Santa Monica Proper hotel, the restaurant is a collaboration between two of the most influential chefs working today, Gabriela...

Onda sits at the edge of the new Santa Monica Proper Hotel in a modest 1920s-era building on Wilshire Boulevard that’s probably not what you think of when you imagine the hottest new restaurant in town. The flashiest thing in the all-white dining...

I stood in line for four hours to eat a chili dog last weekend. You’re probably wondering whether it was wrapped in gold leaf or covered in rare-breed truffles or otherwise so extraordinary that I had to devote a whole afternoon to getting it. In...

Art's Famous Chili Dogs   

Buy gift cards from your local restaurants to give them some much-needed cash flow right now—and help them help a worthy cause while you’re at it. Los Angeles has partnered with Wagstaff Media & Marketing and a number of L.A. chefs to launch the...

The morning of Feb. 26 was like any other Wednesday for Jessica Woo. The 33-year-old mom of three nursed her youngest daughter, Olive, while her two older daughters got ready for school. She washed her face, put on a little makeup, and then headed...