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“Today we made food for 800 people,” Kamal Mouzawak said on Friday, calling from one of his Tawlet restaurants in Beirut. The meals went to overcrowded hospitals, homebound elderly and rescue workers responding to the devastation after the...

At the end of May, it looked for a moment as if Los Angeles dining was slowly inching back to what passes for normal in 2020 — restaurants and bars with spaced tables, customers required to wear masks until their food and drinks arrived. Then...

Welcome to OC Weekly's Final Pho. Sixteen pho shops chosen from the more than 100 in the county; four critics who know what the pho makes a good bowl of Vietnamese noodle soup. The chosen 16 will face off in each of our brackets, two by two. The...

There are certain dishes most people will identify as "comfort food." Ice cream, any form of cake, grilled cheese, doughnuts, lasagna and burgers are all likely candidates. Growing up in a Chinese American household, it was always rice. Rice in...

This is an excellent time to have some absorbing cookbooks on hand. Not only because many of us could use inspiration figuring out what to cook while we shelter but also because we’re craving connection. A parallel has emerged between restaurants...