Local. Healthy Tapas & Sake in Costa Mesa Serves Vegan…Ramen?!

The space in which Basil Mediterranean Grill now sits used to be a vegan Japanese restaurant called Local. I liked Local and wrote about it favorably, but alas, it didn’t last. In the back of my mind, I kind of knew it wouldn’t. So it didn’t...

If you want to understand Asanebo, the sleek Japanese restaurant at the heart of Studio City’s sushi bar strip, you could do worse than to look at the tiny dish of chawanmushi there, the inevitable beginning to one of the long, multi-coursed...

If you are looking for a clue to Shi Hai, the new Hong Kong-style seafood restaurant in Alhambra, you might find it in the cold cucumber appetizer, a dish that appears at both dim sum breakfast and at dinner. If this is your first time at the...

Is it sashimi, or is it art? Photo by Edwin Goei The new restaurant near Knott’s Berry Farm is more than just a Korean barbecue; Kyung Bok Kung is one of the few places (if not the only one) in the county to offer han-jeongsik, a blowout feast...

Morihiro “Mori” Onodera may have the most passionate fans in the universe of Los Angeles sushi, partisans who swapped pictures of his dishes on sites like Chowhound long before Instagram existed, blissed out at his deeply slashed sayori and tended...