Review: At Los Balcones in Studio City, modern mestizo Peruvian cooking is a party

Inside the tiny dining room at Hasiba, a counter-service hummus and pita spot in the heart of Pico-Robertson, the young woman sitting next to me at the long communal table fires up the FaceTime app on her phone. She’s showing off her plate of...

Cheers! It’s six o’clock somewhere. And while your attention may have been diverted elsewhere, Los Angeles has become a cocktail town, a city where the sommelier thing seems just a bit old-fashioned, the craft-beer thing is a little played out...

“Pan-Latin” is a culinary label that strikes fear in my heart and sends a flutter of panic straight to my gut. The bland catchall descriptor invokes a region spanning more than 30 countries and territories, at least seven time zones, dozens of...

Los Angeles’ dining scene is in perpetual motion. The flavors of our city stew, blend and evolve to become something that’s at once entirely new, comfortingly familiar and unequivocally L.A. New restaurants are constantly emerging across the...

Asanebo    Attari Sandwich Shop    Cielito Lindo    Coni'Seafood    Dal Rae    Ham Ji Park    Musso & Frank Grill    Newport Seafood Restaurant    Sapp Coffee Shop    Spago   

Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times Salutations, If we were in snowy Hokkaido instead of Los Angeles, we would be smack in the middle of hairy crab season, one of the happiest times of the year even on that seafood-rich island. Why should you...