The best restaurants to celebrate Mardi Gras in L.A.

Everyone who sat at the counter in front of the steam kettles had questions. “How does it work?” “How much did it cost to install?” Chef Ritter (and that's what he goes by—no other name), partner of his namesake restaurant, is more than happy to...

There’s “good,” and there’s “lick-the-plate good.” The food by chef Norm Theard at the new Roux Creole Cuisine in Laguna Beach isn’t just the latter; it’s pot-licker good. I told the waiter as much when he asked how I liked the Shrimp Yvonne I’d...

There’s “good,” and there’s “lick-the-plate good.” The food by chef Norm Theard at the new Roux Creole Cuisine in Laguna Beach isn’t just the latter; it’s pot-licker good. I told the waiter as much when he asked how I liked the Shrimp Yvonne I’d...

There’s “good,” and there’s “lick-the-plate good.” The food by chef Norm Theard at the new Roux Creole Cuisine in Laguna Beach isn’t just the latter; it’s pot-licker good. I told the waiter as much when he asked how I liked the Shrimp Yvonne I’d...

On Saturday, a Google spreadsheet full of black-owned restaurants in Los Angeles started circulating on Twitter, created by Kat Hong, a 25-year-old editorial assistant for the Infatuation website in L.A. “It came from a place of pure...