Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival Starts Today!

This week’s recommendations are shining examples of why I’ll never tire of eating around Los Angeles. The first is a buzzy transplant from Boston, and the second is a neighborhood Mexican restaurant in South Gate, where the huaraches and chile...

It may seem disingenuous to have a Maine lobster fest in Long Beach. But it's a tradition going on 14 years. So if you can reconcile that La Habra holds its annual Corn Festival without even a single corn field in the city, then you can deal with...

Small squid had been stuffed with rice and suspended in glossy tomato-pepper sauce spiced with clove and bay leaf. Sardines in pepper olive oil were paired with piquillo peppers or spritzed with lemon or hot sauce before canning. A few threads of...

What’s your favorite celebration meal? For me, it depends on the day. It might be an entire bag of potato chips swiped through my colleague Ben Mims’ fried-onion chile crisp dip. Or a bucket of fried chicken from Tokyo Fried Chicken with extra...

There are a lot of lobster festivals. Even landlocked Tustin has one. The one happening this weekend is in Long Beach, and it's just one of at least two I know that's held in that general area each year. This one is called “The Original Long Beach...