Is It OK to Eat at a Restaurant During the Pandemic?

Recently I was unnerved by a simple question: Should I pay somebody to deliver groceries to my house? It was day 10 of my family’s self-quarantine and there was no milk in the fridge, a lonely pair of eggs on the bottom shelf, some baby carrots...

In early March, two weeks before the coronavirus shut down L.A. dining rooms — before the new reality of disposable menus, face-shield-wearing servers and robot waiters — I wrote an enthusiastic review of Bar Avalon in Echo Park. In the review, I...

Wolfgang Puck is one of the most famous chefs in the world. Arguably the first celebrity chef, he built a culinary empire with a catering company and dozens of restaurants. In Los Angeles, the Austrian chef is known for helping to start a dining...

Last week, I started something new. I launched a COVID Comfort Rating system for restaurants. I’m mothballing the traditional star ratings until we get past this pandemic. I’ll be highlighting how restaurants comply with the safe reopening...

Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis are husband and wife, chef and pastry chef, and the visionaries behind two of L.A.’s most celebrated and successful restaurants: Bestia and Bavel. The culinary power duo, who met in 2005 when Menashe was cooking...