Recession, you say? Not for the $74 cheesecake at Jose Andres’ new place

This week's recommendations from Jenn Harris include a $74 dessert, dosa onion rings and Malai rigatoni.

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • August 1, 2022

The $74 cheesecake from San Laurel It’s a scene that verges on the obscene. Despite the general jitters over a looming economic downturn, new restaurants in L.A. are still finding new ways to indulge excess at the table. I felt ridiculous as I sat...

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Summer’s game-changing restaurant: Indian sports bar Pijja Palace

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • August 25, 2022

Have you swung by the summer’s hottest dining sensation yet? The sports bar that serves Indian American food in the Silver Lake strip mall where the legendary Happy Foot Sad Foot sign spun for 30 years? That’s a fun sentence to type, though Pijja...

Can we let go of the term 'fusion cooking' once and for all?

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • August 27, 2022

Before settling at a table for my first dinner at Pijja Palace, the new sports bar in Silver Lake and the subject of this week’s review, I had already studied the menu online and pinpointed what my friend and I would be ordering. We’d start with...

Pistola is the land of big meat and handmade pasta

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 23, 2015

If you’ve traveled much in Italy, you probably have an idea of what an Italian steak meal might be like: a small antipasto or two, an unchallenging pasta and then a honking piece of meat, charred salty black in the fireplace but warm and bloody...

Jonathan Gold review: Trois Familia, where the Trois Mec chef makes Mexican brunch

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 4, 2015

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’...

L.A.’s next taco sensation is a mariscos truck in Silver Lake

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 5, 2023

Francisco Aguilar calls out the name on my order. Through one of the windows of Simón, the admiral-blue mariscos truck he parks six days a week at Sunset Triangle Plaza in Silver Lake, he hands me a plate with two tacos — a fish al pastor and a...