Nancy Silverton’s New Burger Is a Juicy, Barely Cooked, Perfectly Constructed Marvel

It’s 9:30 a.m. on a recent Wednesday, and I’m at Bon Temps in the Arts District. The morning scene at the downtown restaurant has a quiet but steady bustle. Customers arrive in waves, ordering coffee and studying the pastries displayed behind...

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Canter’s is the Dodger Stadium of delis. The enormous menu; the nearly 24-hour service; the Kibitz Room, home to generations of rock and rollers and late-night rabble-rousers—none of it has changed in years. And it’s not going to. At least not so...

Do Italians eat brunch? Not really. Their dedication to a simple breakfast of coffee and toast or pastry could probably be sanctified as a state religion. But if you had a restaurant habit in the 1990s, you probably encountered the vaguely Italian...

There is a moment on season three, episode three of Julia Child’s Baking with Julia where a young Nancy Silverton is visibly gripped with terror. After eating a forkful of Silverton’s brioche tart with hot wine syrup, Child starts to weep....

Mark Peel, the revolutionary chef who helped pioneer California cuisine and establish Los Angeles as a dining destination, died Sunday afternoon. He was 66. Peel died at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset Boulevard, his...