Otium at the Broad museum is L.A.’s most ambitious new restaurant in years

Los Angeles, I believe, has yet to reach Peak Ramen. New sushi bars seem to open each week. In some parts of town, you are rarely more than a few minutes’ drive from a curry house, a Japanese spaghetti parlor or a plate of okonomiyaki. Yet...

1. Women in the kitchen From left: Nancy Silverton, co-owner of Chi Spacca, Pizzeria Mozza , Osteria Mozza and Mozza2Go; Genet Agonafer, owner of Meals By Genet, and Suzanne Tracht, chef and owner of Jar. Mariah Tauger / For The Times Not so long...

Los Angeles dining rooms are closed for now, but what will they look like when they finally reopen? On Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom hinted at the changes that restaurants and diners will confront when social distancing measures are eventually...

So a French chef walks into a Mexican restaurant. Maybe he has a bowl of cocido, maybe he doesn’t. It is a good bowl of cocido; he may as well. So a French chef opens a Mexican restaurant. It is on the site of what used to be Alegria, an artists’...

If you’d been with me at Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, last spring, you would have tasted sardines that turned out to be mysteriously crisp fish sandwiches, an eel flanked by the things it might have swum past in the Po River, and an...