What to eat for New Year's Eve and the best dishes for any celebration

Does the three-second rule apply to customers?  That’s the very serious question racing through my mind as I’m dining at Henry’s in Huntington Beach.  I’ve just dropped a prawn on the floor of the dining room. Unexpectedly slippery, the crustacean...

Our server at Jiang Nan Spring in Alhambra nods toward the tureen of yan du xian — double pork soup with bamboo shoots — he’s just hoisted onto the table, and then he makes a grand pronouncement over it in Mandarin and slips away. A friend dining...

The prawns I adored so much that I almost ate one off the floor at Henry’s are gone. So, too, that lovely lobster in a spritz of almond milk with shaved grapes and heart of palm. I’m saddened about all that. However, the new lamb shank easily...

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

Our server at Ways N Means Oyster House was obviously new, but then so was everyone else. The restaurant had barely been open a week, and midway through her enthusiastic soliloquy on how the chef, Conrad Gallagher, was Michelin-starred and the...