Some meals worth stopping for in Italy on a summer road trip

Summers in Italy, my summers in Italy at least, tend to begin with a drive, several hours in a rented Fiat pointed toward whatever point on the peninsula best suits the moment’s semi-rural needs.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 27, 2015

Summers in Italy, my summers in Italy at least, tend to begin with a drive, several hours in a rented Fiat pointed toward whatever point on the peninsula best suits the moment’s semi-rural needs. If the plane lands midmorning or later, the drive...

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Review: In Long Beach, Amorcito spotlights Mexican American ‘pocho’ cuisine

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2019

The taco salad, a midcentury Mexican American dish, has never gotten much respect in food circles. Its credibility hit an all-time low May 5, 2016, when then-presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted a picture of his lunch: a mystery meat “taco...

Pistola is the land of big meat and handmade pasta

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 23, 2015

If you’ve traveled much in Italy, you probably have an idea of what an Italian steak meal might be like: a small antipasto or two, an unchallenging pasta and then a honking piece of meat, charred salty black in the fireplace but warm and bloody...

10 great Italian restaurants

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 21, 2014

Los Angeles has never been rich in the sort of red-sauce Italian restaurants so common on the other coast, but it has always been notable for the other kind: restaurants in which Italian cooking and the idea of fine dining were not incompatible....

Review: Brodard in Orange County is famous for pork spring rolls — but don't skip the pastries

Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • October 16, 2019

In late 2017, the family behind Brodard Restaurant, a mainstay of Orange County’s Little Saigon since the 1990s, moved its flagship restaurant from Garden Grove to a bigger space in a Fountain Valley shopping center. The new Brodard is a polished,...

Flores and the Ladies' Gunboat Society heaps high the Southern comfort

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 25, 2014

Are there any sweeter words in the English language than “fried chicken and beer”? Because if you have wandered down Sawtelle Boulevard lately, perhaps wondering whether your chances are better in the endless ramen line outside Tsujita Annex or...