Jonathan Gold finds Kettle Black's eccentric Italian illuminating. Try the octopus salad.

The first time you try Bone Kettle, Erwin Tjahyadi’s new proto-Indonesian restaurant in Pasadena, you may spend a certain amount of time figuring out what to do with the leftovers, which will be substantial. Crunchy wisps of meat from fried oxtail...

If you were going to design a restaurant representing the new Venice Beach, the one where postmodern mansions crowd next to crumbling apartment blocks, and the narrow alleys sometimes resemble the streets near the Rialto, you might well come up...

SanTana is home to OC's densest and greatest mix of Mexican cuisine and some of the most cutting-edge of OC's restaurants. It's also here that you'll find one of the most authentic bowls of mi nam vang in the county. Here is a list of this food...

Everyone who sat at the counter in front of the steam kettles had questions. “How does it work?” “How much did it cost to install?” Chef Ritter (and that's what he goes by—no other name), partner of his namesake restaurant, is more than happy to...

At Aji Peruvian Cuisine in Long Beach's Retro Row, there are potatoes everywhere: boiled, mashed, fried—sometimes all three. Potatoes are buried like treasures beneath the shredded-chicken-studded gravy of the aji de gallina and displayed like...