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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...

Vegan soft serve at Mother Tongue Michael Mina’s new restaurant lulls you into its sun-drunk, warm cocoon without you even realizing it. Located in the new Heimat social and fitness club complex in Hollywood, Mother Tongue is a floor below a...

If an ice cream cone at Ikea is the best thing you’ve eaten all week, welcome to the club. That’s the sad predicament I found myself in recently. The life of a restaurant critic isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds. And that’s precisely the way...

It’s been four years since I last witnessed the summer fog in San Francisco come barreling over Twin Peaks, soon to blanket the city. I’d forgotten how fast the mass moves, almost like you’re watching a time-lapse video but the speed is real life,...

Four very different new pizzerias are shaking up the local pizza scene. Two of these parlors have introduced competing visions of New York-style pizza, while another takes aim at the Detroit-style deep-dish trend and the other muscles its way into...