Spring 2021 L.A. restaurants: Best outdoor dining amid COVID

With L.A. in the yellow tier of COVID-19 reopening, restaurants are booming. Check out these outdoor dining options for sushi, ramen, tacos and more.

Bill Addison, Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2021

Presented by The scope of Los Angeles’ dining culture has never been simple to characterize — “diverse” doesn’t begin to describe its overlap of communities, cuisines, street foods and glittering rooms, triumphs and struggles — but it’s fair to...

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Where to get tacos and more great Mexican food from Jonathan Gold's 101

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 27, 2016

Of the many terrific places to eat on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants, where can you go for a great taco or a bowl of fideo, maybe pescado zarandeado or aguachile, Sonora-style cooking or a Paloma cocktail? Here are the 11 Mexican restaurants...

Jonathan Gold's best cheap eats

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • August 15, 2014

Attari Sandwich Shop Attari is a slice of Tehran high society transplanted onto a leafy Westwood patio, exquisitely tailored expats sipping tea and eating the thick Iranian soup called osh or crisp French bread sandwiches stuffed with slices of...

The finest food in Los Angeles for even the thinnest wallets

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • August 29, 2014

Is it possible to spend more than $400 per person at some of the restaurants on this year’s list of the best 101? Of course. Cuisine costs. But great cooking takes many different forms in Los Angeles, and some of the most exquisite flavors belong...

14 exceptional new L.A. restaurants for a better 2021

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • January 14, 2021

A takeout window seems an apt location to begin thinking through some of the Los Angeles restaurants that managed not only to open in 2020, but also to enrich the city’s culture with creative achievement and personal narrative. This carryout setup...

The custard-filled French toast of your dreams is Cantonese

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 4, 2023

During a dim sum meal, a Cantonese friend once casually mentioned that part of the Chinese characters that spell liu sha bao — the fluffy, springy steamed buns that ooze sweet egg custard — translate as “gold quicksand.” I loved that mental image,...