Jonathan Gold: L.A. Chapter is hip, but the cuisine is hit-and-miss

Welcome to the first edition of Tasting Notes, our revamped newsletter on the L.A. restaurant scene. In 2018, my final of five years as Eater’s national critic, I ate roughly 600 meals in 36 cities across North America. Since moving to Los Angeles...

At year’s end, with the all-consuming project — our annual guide to L.A.'s 101 best restaurants — behind me and some holiday downtime forthcoming, it’s a pleasure to turn my attention briefly from restaurants to excellent, recently published...

This week I reviewed Auburn, a 4-month-old restaurant on Melrose Avenue where chef-owner Eric Bost creates a mix-and-match tasting menu: Diners choose four, six or nine courses from a list of 12 ever-changing dishes. “Fine dining” is such a...

When Adrian Miller was writing his first, award-winning book “Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine One Plate at a Time,” he originally planned to include a chapter on barbecue. In soul food restaurants, barbecued pork is often an...

It's true that the new Chapter One: the modern local is a pub, a very good one featuring a roster of serious microbrews, New Age self-described “culinary cocktails” and old-man drinks. And yes, what comes out of the kitchen can safely be called...