Newsletter: Newer restaurants we hated to leave off the 101

[Looking for the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. list? Look no further.] In 2013, the Times published the first edition of the 101 Best Restaurants, Jonathan Gold’s year-end list of where to eat in Los Angeles. Since its debut, “the 101” has...

For the last month, Patricia Escárcega and I have done little else beyond write, fret over, debate, cross-check, analyze, tweak and keep writing The Times’ annual list of the 101 Best Restaurants. We’ve been researching and thinking about the...

How do we even begin to make any larger, lasting sense of 2020 — the loss of lives and livelihoods, the government failures and the tapped reserves of fortitude and ingenuity and kindness? Flipping a calendar page to a new year doesn’t make...

The holidays are upon us, and Patricia Escárcega and I take a break from restaurant reviews this coming week to make way for the Nov. 21 Food section brimming with Thanksgiving recipes. We savored the leftovers from dishes that Genevieve Ko and...

As America’s dining culture has emerged and continuously evolved over the last half-century, so too has its notions around food criticism. One endless debate trails restaurant reviews: Do star ratings have any real worth? Our restaurant critics...