Review: Iraqi specialties for breakfast, lunch and dinner at Glendale’s Akkad

Years of seeking out Lebanese restaurants across America have taught me this: When you find a good one, gather as many people as you can corral and then order as many dishes as the table can fit. The strategy holds up when dining at Hayat’s...

Welcome to the first edition of Tasting Notes, our revamped newsletter on the L.A. restaurant scene. In 2018, my final of five years as Eater’s national critic, I ate roughly 600 meals in 36 cities across North America. Since moving to Los Angeles...

A fork slips through Lina Georges’ mehshi koussa — zucchini filled with rice and richly spiced ground beef — with the ease of slicing room-temperature butter. Stuffing vegetables is a sacrosanct category of Lebanese cuisine. Cooks heap hollowed...

Since the shutdown of dine-in restaurants on March 15, I’ve been eating mostly carryout, doing what little I can to help while watching chefs, restaurateurs and their employees fight for their livelihoods. These businesses are devising...

Kobee Factory    Cluck2Go    Pasjoli    Dialogue    Iki Ramen    Dulan's on Crenshaw    Hail Mary Pizza    Porridge + Puffs   

Samke harra means “spicy fish” in Lebanese Arabic, though the dish — usually flavored with some variation of garlic, cilantro and nuts — rarely smolders with anything more than a flicker of cayenne. Originally a staple of Tripoli, Lebanon’s...

Mona's Kitchen