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For this weekend’s Food section, the Food team marked the anniversary of the pandemic-related shutdowns and its rippling effects on Los Angeles’ dining and cooking culture. Jenn Harris profiles four longtime hospitality workers to find out how...

A restaurant opened in Dana Point a few years ago called Bistro Provincia. It looked more or less like a Mexican restaurant, but the chef, Manny Diaz, served Eurocentric fusion fare. It was a loosely defined menu of French, Italian and pan-Asian...

Restaurants provide solace, sustenance, acceptance, joy and a much-needed escape for countless communities. The employees who greet you at the door, take your order and mix your cocktails are essential workers who create memories and make magic...

What does “meat” even mean anyway? Must protein come from animals, or can it be engineered from plants in a lab? Sardinia-born brothers Mauro and Sergio Corbia, who cofounded Mauro’s Cafe at Fred Segal on Melrose and co-own Fabiolus Cucina in...

Ysidora, the signature restaurant at the beautiful new Inn at the Mission in San Juan Capistrano has a small dining room that hasn’t yet opened, although I suspect it will soon. However, the kitchen is up-and-running, serving a Spanish-inspired...

It’s been more than eight months — July 1, 2020, to be exact — since restaurant dining rooms in Los Angeles County have been open to customers. But yesterday afternoon, county officials gave the green light for restaurants, starting Monday, to...

They say it takes about 21 days to establish a new habit. But my recent research suggests four days in a row is enough to get hooked on eating cookies for breakfast. Now I’m starting to wonder if there’s anything wrong with that. These cookies...

Even before the pandemic, Paul Abramowitz was often dissatisfied with delivery meals. “Everything came in cardboard boxes or in plastic clamshells. It was always cold,” says the 65-year-old entrepreneur. So he teamed up with esteemed chef Robert...

In the old days, Taco Tuesday almost always meant $1 tacos. Well, apparently the old days are back, at least for a little while. I stumbled upon 3 Roots Mexican Cocina in Irvine the other day, attracted by the lovely parking-lot patio where the...

Not everyone needs a 20-pound weighted blanket, ylang-ylang + calendula deodorant, a lace eye mask, or design-conscious vibrator, but everyone needs to eat—and Gwyneth Paltrow seems to know that. Launching March 8, Goop Kitchen, is a new virtual...