OPM Restaurant N Lounge in Huntington Beach is a Chick Magnet

When you see uni pasta on the menu, do your eyes, like mine, gravitate toward it as though sparklers surrounded it? It seems to have become de rigueur at every Asian fusion restaurant that’s opened in the past few years. Fusion Bites, inside...

Remember Tap House and Tap Shack, the sports bars with the pour-your-own beer taps? Both opened sometime in the last five years–Tap House in Huntington Beach and Tap Shack in Newport Beach–and both, well, tapped out sometime in the last year. ]...

The thought running through my head, as my dad and I raided our restaurant’s wine cellar after Santa Monica implemented its COVID-19 stay-at-home measure, was: at least there’s toilet paper. I grabbed three rolls for myself and gave the rest to...

Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis are husband and wife, chef and pastry chef, and the visionaries behind two of L.A.’s most celebrated and successful restaurants: Bestia and Bavel. The culinary power duo, who met in 2005 when Menashe was cooking...

Happy Mother’s Day weekend. This marks my first Mother’s Day as a mom, and I’m pretty thrilled to spend it celebrating with my young daughter. (I suspect breakfast will involve fluffy, homemade pancakes.) With most of us under quarantine, the...