Review: Central drops the Peruvian accent and rises from the ashes in Laguna Beach

Don’t be in a hurry when you eat the pork neck at Lido Bottle Works in Newport Beach. You’ll want to savor every bite, and there’s not much of it. It’s a thin slice of meat, the “secreto.” It might or might not actually come from the animal’s...

If you want to understand Night + Market Song, Kris Yenbamroong’s new Thai restaurant in Silver Lake, you could do worse than to look at the luu suk, a puddle of warm pig blood, strewn with feathery Southeast Asian herbs, served in a shallow bowl....

A catchy Italian pop song by Lucio Dalla cuts through the stillness at lunchtime at Oliver’s Osteria in Laguna Beach. The dining room is otherwise quiet, leaving me alone to contemplate the elegance of my cacio e pepe. It is the most stunning...

From long lines to overpriced, rubbery eggs to weak, sickly sweet mimosas, there are plenty of logical reasons to avoid going out for brunch—and many chefs agree. It’s “not all that interesting,” says Jude Parra-Sickels, the executive chef at...

Baker Street in Costa Mesa is California’s Ramen Row. There is no other street or neighborhood — not even L.A.’s Little Tokyo or San Francisco’s Japantown — that is so richly saturated with Japanese ramen noodle soup as Baker Street. Until a few...