Yoshinoya Changes Its Chicken Bowl, and Not for the Better

The most authentic Hainan chicken rice in OC. Photo by Cynthia Rebolledo The best meal I had in Singapore was a dish called Hainan chicken rice. And as with all great food found in Singapore, I had it inside an unbearably hot-and-humid hawker...

Two things are required any time someone reviews a Mediterranean/Middle Eastern restaurant that offers rotisserie chicken. First, there must be a comparison to Zankou Chicken’s bird as the benchmark. This is followed by maybe a paragraph or two...

“What’s better: the chicken roulade from the dinner menu, or the fried chicken from the lunch menu?” I asked the Mr. G’s hostess who answered the phone and took my reservation. “The fried chicken,” she answered. “Definitely the fried chicken.”...

Of all the trendy foods to hit L.A. recently, nothing has intrigued me more than Kyochon Chicken, fried chicken as done by Koreans. Jonathan Gold's Pulitzer-prize winning taste-buds swears by it (“Current fried chicken mecca“, he writes), while...

I admit I’m no longer an expert on the food-truck biome. A few years ago, during the height of the luxe lonchera craze, I knew every species and subspecies that roamed the streets. But these days, I’d rather call ahead to a reserve a table...