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Chef Justin Pichetrungsi’s omakase menus of South Asian flavors are a phenomenon — and sold out through September. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Waiting in line for tacos is a truism of life in Los Angeles. Trailing down a busy commercial...

The menu at A&B Seafood by Bếp Việt, a new Vietnamese restaurant in Garden Grove, is extensive. It would take months of repeat visits to sample everything. But I think it’s safe to say the kitchen here is best defined by a single dish, a soup...

The ebi furai at Izakaya Ichie in Buena Park are absolutely delicious. Ebi furai are the crispier cousin to shrimp tempura. Oddly, this new Japanese pub lists the ebi furai on the menu as “shrimp tempura” even though these are distinctly not...

This week, I’m making the case for salads. These will not help you achieve your ideal summer bod, but they will make the most of some very good produce. Morning glory salad at Jitlada My favorite salad in all of Los Angeles is deep-fried. This...

SAN DIEGO —  By the time Comic-Con attendees arrive in San Diego next week, plenty of restaurants in the city’s touristy Gaslamp Quarter will have dreamed up themed enticements — cocktail ice cubes resembling the Bat Signal, say, or sushi in the...

A new donut shop in Brea has embraced the old KISS principle — keep it simple stupid — and the donuts are fantastic. The selection at Downtown Donuts & Coffee is limited to fewer than 10 options: plain glazed, chocolate glazed, maple glazed,...

The most important thing to know about the festive and glamorous new A Crystal Cove restaurant, a modern spinoff of the old A Restaurant in Newport Beach, is this: The menu here bears almost no resemblance to the original A. Instead it is a...

Bone marrow birria tacos from Pepe’s Red Tacos For a time, my Instagram and TikTok feeds were full of red-stained tacos. There were red birria and queso-filled tacos dunked five at a time into cups overflowing with even redder consommé. Stacks of...

Right on time for summer reading and sipping, this week Lucas Kwan Peterson writes about his visit to Erewhon to try its signature smoothies — and how he finds some elixirs more life-giving than others. As he says in the piece: “Each of Erewhon’s...

Forget for a second that the sign above the door says Taco Chico. Try not to think about the tacos yet. Order a sandwich first. And by sandwich I mean a cemita. “Cemita” is both the name of the Puebla-style bread used for these sandwiches and also...