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On Aug. 28, 1971, a 27-year-old former Montessori teacher named Alice Waters opened a restaurant on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley. Waters had studied abroad in France six years earlier and, back home, longed to emulate the notions of hospitality and...

The great ramen swarm continues. More than a half dozen additional ramen shops have opened in Orange County in the past six months, and the most impressive of this new crop is Gyutan Ramen in Irvine’s University Center. “Gyutan” is the Japanese...

That Armenian bakeries sell substantial and savory breads for two dollars is an incredible service to the many people who have irrevocably screwed up their lives by moving to Los Angeles. For everybody who moved here and fell flat on their face;...

While COVID-19 was uniquely devastating to downtown Los Angeles, a number of exciting restaurant openings are rejuvenating the area. At the close of the summer, Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne are set to unveil two long-awaited concepts in the...

With their latest, Bicyclette, acclaimed République chefs Walter and Margarita Manzke have re-created Paris on Pico Boulevard, albeit with California produce. “While the food may be done in a way that is a bit contemporary and farm-to-table, it’s...

Just inside the front door of the new Carmelita’s Taqueria and Grill in Dana Point, a large mechanical tortilla press spits out flattened, blue-black rounds of masa, which get grabbed by a cook with Teflon fingers and slapped onto a hot circular...

A masked chef named Steve Cho tends to a griddle crackling with oil beneath a red pop-up tent just outside a strip mall parking lot. Sausages and hot dogs sizzle alongside jalapeños. Cho stirs corn kernels and cream with a spoon in a shallow pan...

After a century of serving up wine, lox, and kosher salami, the owners of one of the city’s oldest businesses will hang up their aprons for good tonight. Greenblatt’s Delicatessen, loved by generations of movie stars, night clubbers, and tourists...

When I ask, “How much is the live crab?” The response I hear is $90. So I say, “Great, I’ll order that for the table.” I’m on the phone booking a reservation at Chang’An, a new Chinese restaurant in Tustin. Several of the kitchen’s signature items...