Review: Chaak Kitchen is a culinary trip to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, via Tustin

Photo by Edwin Goei When the smoky, coal-roasted whole branzino I ordered at Chaak arrived at my table, I knew it wasn’t going to need any sauce or even a drop of lemon. A brick-red achiote spice paste spackled the specimen from head to tail. And...

Of the many excellent restaurants on this year’s 101 Best Restaurants list, where can you go for exquisite carne asada, mole Oaxaqueño, a steamy bowl of fideo, Zacatecas-style burritos, or maybe a taco tasting menu? Here are the 16 Mexican...

“Here, try some of this,” my partner says, handing me a jar of charred habanero salsa. “Maybe this will help.” I take the blackened salsa and dab it onto the flatbread. I chase it with a swig of mezcal. The flatbread at Chaak Kitchen doesn’t...

Nearly a quarter of the 2019 edition of 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. are newcomers. Many — but not all of them — reflect reviews of newer restaurants published over the last year by Times critics Bill Addison and Patricia Escárcega, who researched...

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Photo by Edwin Goei Welcome to our annual Top 5 countdown, where our SAFII writers tell you what impressed them over the past year! Here, we have food critic Edwin Goei’s Top 5 Drinks and Restaurants – enjoy, and dig in! Edwin Goei’s Top 5 Drinks...