Bill Addison

Santa Monica restaurants and other businesses were ordered to close by 1 p.m. Monday the day after looting and vandalism in the city. Restaurants along the Third Street Promenade, 4th Street and Main Street were hit Sunday during protests over the...

Ototo, the tiny but mighty sake bar owned by Courtney Kaplan and Charles Namba, opened in Echo Park in May 2019. I’d moved to the neighborhood the month before it launched and had embraced the place as my local watering hole. And, like so many...

You may have seen El Gallo cruising the streets of Santa Monica. He’s a canary yellow 1973 Oldsmobile 98, with a rooster head bolted to the roof of the car and a curved feathery tail attached to the trunk. His deep red, wavy cockscomb adds an...

The migas breakfast taco from the Hot Taco truck parked in front of the Line hotel in Koreatown will arrive in your hands beautifully packaged. Its first layer of wrapping is paper printed with a neon pink logo — an etching of a folded taco...

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...