Jonathan Gold: Barbecue you need to be eating right now

Barbecue may be a religion in the South, but this time of year, it is everywhere in Los Angeles -- in backyards, storefronts, suburban chains, farmers markets and barrel smokers in church parking lots.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 24, 2014

Barbecue may be a religion in the South, but this time of year, it is everywhere in Los Angeles -- in backyards, storefronts, suburban chains, farmers markets and barrel smokers in church parking lots. Here are a few places we like a lot. No...

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Best barbecue? Says who?

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 23, 2014

On its website today, OpenTable.com announced the top 30 barbecue restaurants in the U.S., a list that includes local restaurants Gus’s, Naples Rib Company and Boneyard Bistro. The votes were culled from 16,000 reviews from what the company calls...

Jonathan Gold's best cheap eats

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • August 15, 2014

Attari Sandwich Shop Attari is a slice of Tehran high society transplanted onto a leafy Westwood patio, exquisitely tailored expats sipping tea and eating the thick Iranian soup called osh or crisp French bread sandwiches stuffed with slices of...

The finest food in Los Angeles for even the thinnest wallets

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • August 29, 2014

Is it possible to spend more than $400 per person at some of the restaurants on this year’s list of the best 101? Of course. Cuisine costs. But great cooking takes many different forms in Los Angeles, and some of the most exquisite flavors belong...

Jonathan Gold considers his favorite dishes from Food Bowl 2017

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2017

I’m not sure what you’ve been doing this month. I’ve been spending most of my evenings at the first edition of Food Bowl, The Times’ month of food events that’s been a welter of special dinners, film screenings, art displays, farmers market...

Our critic's favorite L.A. barbecue restaurants

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • July 24, 2020

Barbecue is the epitome of American food — a style of cooking, with myriad regional variations, built on indigenous traditions, perfected over centuries (particularly, with its early Southern roots, by enslaved African cooks) and continuously...