Review: In Inglewood, Mutiara is the spot for Burmese noodles, curries and salads

The pasta dish you see on almost every table at Nightshade is chef Mei Lin’s mapo tofu lasagna, a slinky block of egg noodles layered with a Sichuan pepper-infused pork ragù and filaments of tofu cream. The ragù is subtle — the most decadent thing...

Have the design magazines made it out to Daw Yee Myanmar Corner yet? Because it is hard to imagine a restaurant better-suited to a page or two in Dwell: a small Silver Lake dining room decked out with glowing pink-and-blue neon and a...

Your ideas about porchetta may have been formed in the hills east of Rome or at a truck parked in Umbria, or perhaps with the fennel-scented suckling pig they sometimes serve at Sotto, the stuffed roasts in the case at McCall’s Meat & Fish Co. or...

To dine well at the 4-month-old, 12-seat Thai Town restaurant called Northern Thai Food Club, sidle up to its steam table. Chef-owner “Nancy” Amphai Dunne dotes on the steel barge, which takes up serious real estate in the tiny room and sits...

If you’re a wannabe food anthropologist as I am, tasting the dishes at the new Irrawaddy Taste of Burma in Stanton will be as fascinating as it is delicious. For here’s a cuisine that, because of Myanmar’s location on the map, has elements of...