Diego's Downtown: The Missing Link

Our server at Ways N Means Oyster House was obviously new, but then so was everyone else. The restaurant had barely been open a week, and midway through her enthusiastic soliloquy on how the chef, Conrad Gallagher, was Michelin-starred and the...

WhatNs My Name, Fish?As Don the Beachcomber, the former Kona, which was formerly SamNs, goes freaky for tiki—and loses a step when it comes to cooking seafood It was a Saturday night at the new Don the Beachcomber in Huntington Beach, and the...

It has been a radical decade in dining for Los Angeles — a time when once-quiet neighborhoods became restaurant destinations, when voices at every tier of the industry diversified, when culinary spaces decentralized, when a sense of ownership and...

Upon my first trip to El Mahroosa Cafe N Hookah Lounge, I had a choice. Do I sit in the stark white room under harsh fluorescent lights, or do I make my way to the covered patio? It was clear. No one sits in the front room. Everyone, even if...

“Where are we going?” my friend asked me as I drove. “Place is called Krave,” I replied. “Didn’t you already review that?” “No, that was Crave with a C in Santa Ana,” I said. “This is Krave with a K. It’s behind the Souplantation in Irvine.”...