The return of weekly restaurant reviews

December is tamale-making season in Los Angeles, the time of year when I inevitably find myself elbow-deep in a tub of masa. In my family, the tamale prodigies include my husband, who makes green chile pork tamales in the wantonly spicy northern...

Over the last two years, I have fallen down the food television rabbit hole too many times to count. It’s just too tempting to escape our scary collective dilemma (a.k.a. the pandemic) and follow Stanley Tucci through the streets of Italy or Phil...

When you think of the restaurants that best represent Los Angeles, which ones come to mind? With the world fixated on ChatGPT, the OpenAI-designed chatbot capable of writing term papers, music and everything in between, I thought I'd ask it where...

Theo Rossi is a pita bread and hummus connoisseur. The actor deems the pita and hummus at Bavel in the Arts District downtown to be among the best he’s ever tasted. He should know — he eats some form of the bread-and-dip duo every day. Rossi, who...

When you spend most nights cooking for others, going out to eat can be a luxury. So you choose your restaurants carefully. And as a well-connected chef you tend to hear about some of the most interesting recent openings. This is why we asked six...