Souplantation, the Southland’s Most Beloved Buffet Chain, Is Closing for Good

In the last few days — after a months-long shutdown, an abrupt and immediate allowance to reopen their dining rooms and the most significant protests on the streets of Los Angeles in decades — restaurants are beginning to welcome diners inside...

Souplantation is a harmless (I don't mean that sarcastically) and serviceable way to detox from a weeklong meat binge. It's also perfect when you want to please the vegetarian in your midst. We took a visiting Indian colleague who was “veg,” and...

Whenever I see Chinese chicken salad on a menu, I gravitate toward it. It’s not as if I’ve liked most of them; the dressing is almost always too sweet, and the chicken stringy. But ordering one guarantees there’s at least going to be some sort of...

“Where are we going?” my friend asked me as I drove. “Place is called Krave,” I replied. “Didn’t you already review that?” “No, that was Crave with a C in Santa Ana,” I said. “This is Krave with a K. It’s behind the Souplantation in Irvine.”...

Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a National Park or someplace tranquil, finding your moment of Zen, when all of a sudden, you sense a disturbance in the Force. A bus pulls up, and within seconds, hundreds of photo-snapping tourists pour...