The Pantry

about to launch the first in a line of pantry products from Alta restaurant. Red Ranch is a combination of the restaurant’s signature Fresno chile hot sauce and the chefs’ take on a classic ranch, made with yogurt and buttermilk. It has a strong, vibrant

proteins. In college, she said, she made many friends by using it on her steaks. The Dino’s line of pantry products will be available at the Los Angeles, Azusa and Pico Rivera restaurants, on the Dino’s website and via Instagram. 2575 W. Pico Blvd., Los

cooking to cope, Birdie G’s is also offering an array of pantry items, from schmaltz to Persian spice mix to parmesan-garlic bread crumbs. (Rachel Sheridan, the wife of Birdie G’s chef and co-owner Jeremy Fox, also runs the @virtualcookingclub Instagram

The Rustic Canyon Family, which includes some of the city’s top spots like Cassia and Birdie G’s, announced a slew of new delivery, take-out, and curbside-pickup options. (Its namesake restaurant, Rustic Canyon, has closed temporarily.) Highlights

, being made right before my eyes. A woman was rolling dough into long strips at a table outside of Goodies In the Pantry, the Romanian deli and butcher shop I had come to Orange to visit. She wound the dough ropes around cylindrical spits as though they

the Pantry resembled something out of a quaint Eastern European village. Entering through the back door, I encountered two tiny tables with antique-looking woven fabric as tablecloths. A small sleeping cot was butted up against the wall. In front of it

. Lucky’s Thai Pantry opened in January in Orange. The chef’s pad see ew has always been one of the best because she lets the noodles caramelize in the wok just a little bit longer than everyone else, allowing her seasoning sauce to evolve into a deeper

Good Thai food in the vicinity of Orange and Tustin has long been a moving target, thanks mostly to a chef named Lucky who has hopped from kitchen to kitchen over the years. She made a splash at Sutha Thai in Tustin, then turned up the heat at

selection than The Pantry at Sapphire in Laguna Beach. The Pantry is the bakery-coffee-wine-shop-deli that adjoins the restaurant. They’ve got self-serve refrigerated cases filled with cheese, charcuterie, sandwiches, salads, yogurt… and now cocktails in

research next week. The Pantry at Sapphire Where: 1200 S. Coast Highway, Laguna Beach When: Daily, from breakfast to dinner Cost: $10 each Phone: 949-715-9888 Online: sapphirelagunabeach.com

isn’t as much of a novelty in Los Angeles these days. During the darkest days of the 2020 quarantines, fancier markets and restaurants-turned-grocers stocked up on beautifully packaged conservas as a pantry-stable shelf item; plenty of us took solace in

up on beautifully packaged conservas as a pantry-stable shelf item; plenty of us took solace in yanking the metal tab on a tin — relishing the satisfying pop and scrape — and consuming the contents as a no-thought-required solo lunch. (Tins are also

here early for the cream puffs,” the young woman behind the counter tells me. They stock the donuts and leavened pastries first thing in the morning. The afternoon shift is when the refrigerated case gets restocked with tarts and cakes and the pantry

A craving for custard cream fritters and baked cream puffs is what prompts me to drive to The Bakery Cafe at The Source in Buena Park. The fritters look like bear claws, except more elegant and beautifully golden brown, their insides inflated with

with it, so you’ll have to improvise. And while it’s not sold as a sandwich, this pork squeals out to be stuffed into a bun. You’ll kick yourself if you don’t have any in the pantry. Harley Where: 370 Glenneyre St., Laguna Beach When: Wednesday-Saturday

Do yourself a favor. Go to the grocery store and buy some high-quality hamburger buns. And maybe a couple of habaneros. Then go home and order the Dr. Pepper barbecue pork from Harley in Laguna Beach. The pork stars in of one of the restaurant’s

a responsibly sourced meal.” Advertisement Brian Park writes about the mutual aid groups — including No Us Without You LA, Polo’s Pantry and Ktown for All — that have galvanized or increased their efforts to feed Angelenos in need during the pandemic

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 they

waiting for the hiss of an order ticket machine, or documenting the scene as one of L.A.’s hippest brunch parlors emptied its pantry during the kind of surreal fire sale that played out in dining rooms across the country. To write about food without adding

“What a lot of noise!” a reader named John M. wrote concerning my recent call for more food journalism oriented toward the stories of restaurant workers. "Food critics can continue to be distracted by all the noise enumerated in your article simply