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Backyard barbecue has been an L.A. cottage industry since well before the pandemic. Now, in the COVID-19 era, you can pull up to a pair of garages on a densely populated Hollywood side street to pick up Carolina-style smoked meat. Clay Blair...

From upscale sushi in Atwater Village to a pizza place with Hot Cheetos wings in Boyle Heights, here are some new spots to check out this month. Morihiro Rejoyce! Sushi master Morihiro Onodera, who earned a Michelin star at Mori nearly a decade...

Last week I was messaging with my friend Deno, who lives in San Francisco and was a chef in a previous life. We were texting about how much we were cooking, and somehow we rolled the subject around to peppercorns and I mentioned the spice brand...

There are certain absolutes that should be included in any basic dating profile, among them whether or not you want children, and if you prefer drumettes or flats. Chicken wing lovers can be intensely discriminating when it comes to wing...

Onotria is back from the dead. But as with most things that come back from the dead, there’s a catch. Onotria was a very good Italian restaurant at the corner of Bear and Bristol in Costa Mesa, but chef/owner Massimo Navarretta lost his lease a...

Orange County is the epicenter of California’s Japanese ramen scene. What started as a concentration of ramen restaurants gathered along Costa Mesa’s ramen row (Baker Street) has morphed into a county-wide saturation of Japanese noodle bars, many...

A good cookie is like a Rorschach test with sugar, fat and flour: The resulting flavors and textures provide a clear image of the baker who made it. Pastry chef GiGi Pascual says she’s always loved a good cookie, and that she’s been tweaking her...

Few people came to symbolize the frustration, fear and anger of restaurant owners to the ban on outdoor dining than Angela Marsden, owner of Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill in Sherman Oaks. When Los Angeles County imposed the rules in the wake of a...

Catch Hospitality group, the team behind the Catch restaurant on Melrose Avenue, plans to open Catch Steak in Beverly Grove. The steakhouse, located in the former Fig & Olive space, is scheduled to open this summer. Co-owner Mark Birnbaum says the...

When the Grey opened in Savannah, Ga., late in 2014, the national food media instantly latched onto the restaurant’s unlikely origin story: New York venture capitalist and first-time restaurateur John O. Morisano purchased a once-grand former...