Review: Bryant Ng’s Cassia in Santa Monica stars a brilliant pot-au-feu

A decade or two from now, when line-caught sea bass will seem as rare and unobtainable as sturgeon caviar is now, drive-through windows sell more lentil bowls than cheeseburgers and we have gotten used to the idea of Taylor Swift as the governor...

Here we are at the Mall of Fortune, the vast strip mall that many people consider the heart of Vietnamese Garden Grove. There are sprawling noodle complexes, a crowded bakery and a seven-courses-of-beef restaurant that seems as large as a soccer...

When you walk down 6th Street in Koreatown about a quarter to nine some night, perhaps on your way to an early cocktail at the Walker Inn or a late cheeseburger at Cassell’s, you are likely to run across an odd scrum of people lining the sidewalk...

Okay, so maybe now — just days after the National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared we are eyebrow-deep in recession — isn't the best time to talk about a $75 per person Christmas Eve feast at the ritziest of French restaurants,...

The life of a certain kind of restaurant, one is given to understand, can be nasty, brutish and short. A bakery-cafe concept, reborn as an Asian fusion restaurant, may already be out of business in its new incarnation as a Mexican-leaning...