Review: Evan’s Smokehouse finds a prime patch of dirt in Yorba Linda

Never has a new restaurant filled me with such equal measures of excitement and dread as Heritage Barbecue, which opened in August across the street from the mission in San Juan Capistrano. My first couple of attempts to dine here end in dread. As...

There isn’t a single food that I crave more frequently yet eat more rarely than real Texas-style barbecue brisket. This is the comfort food of my upbringing. Thus there probably hasn’t been another new restaurant that I’ve looked forward to more...

Los Angeles, in the last several years, has become something of a paradise for what I’ve taken to calling Chefs Without Portfolio, highly skilled young cooks, killing time between major projects, who have done things like reinvent gastropubs, run...

Summer goes with baseball; baseball goes with beer, hot dogs and . . . sushi? Yes, as you might have already heard, these days, there is more than peanuts and Cracker Jack at Angel Stadium. But that’s not to say you can’t find fried foods to rival...

When you talk to the masters of Texas barbecue, men and women who measure their lives in cords of post oak and fatty beef by the ton, you will hear about convection rates and sedimentation, humidity and wind, and the way fat renders in April as...