Flavors of Flavio

Here are my weekly recommendations on where to eat — and what to order — right now. Smash burgers and dipped cones from Heavy Handed I will never tire of a good cheeseburger. I don’t discriminate when it comes to a properly cooked patty and melted...

A year ago, Leo Bulgarini started serving a small menu of pasta dishes at Bulgarini Gelato Artigianale, his small gelateria and restaurant in Altadena. Five nights a week, Wednesday through Sunday, the gelato shop offers a $45 dinner special,...

I'm going to do my list a little different than my esteemed colleagues. This year, I'm not going to list them in a countdown order; I'm going to do mine alphabetically. Why? Well because it was hard enough to narrow down the hundreds of...

Cafe Blanc is a dessert triple-threat: a pâtisserie, a glâcerie and a confiserie in one. So many sweet treats abound, you'll be glad you saved the last vestiges of your appetite from dinner for a bite of chef Tomi Harase's cake, a scoop of his...

Orange, with that cool roundabout in Old Towne and the legendary Watson's, also boasts restaurants that Tom Hanks didn't feature when he filmed That Thing You Do here. So here's a list of this town's eateries that your humble scribe has deemed his...