Bill Addison

Since the shutdown of dine-in restaurants on March 15, I’ve been eating mostly carryout, doing what little I can to help while watching chefs, restaurateurs and their employees fight for their livelihoods. These businesses are devising...

Kobee Factory    Cluck2Go    Pasjoli    Dialogue    Iki Ramen    Dulan's on Crenshaw    Hail Mary Pizza    Porridge + Puffs   

Josef Centeno is one of the chefs I admire most in Los Angeles. The owner of four restaurants — Bäco Mercat, Orsa & Winston and Bar Amá downtown, and Amacita in Culver City — he’s the kind of leader I’d nominate for a chef of the year award. On...

Four years ago, my husband and I road-tripped to L.A. from Arizona for a long weekend planned around the 2014 edition of Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants. Our aim was to visit as many Gold-approved restaurants as we could squeeze into our...

I spend a lot of time eating in the San Gabriel Valley, always learning and ever amazed by the breadth at hand: Beijing duck, Uighur lamb polo, Sichuan ginger rabbit, Hong Kong-style steamed fish, Taiwanese beef noodle soup, on and on and on. Over...

New Qingdao Restaurant    Zhou's Guilin Rice Noodle    1919 Lanzhou Beef Noodle   

[Looking for the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. list? Look no further.] In 2013, the Times published the first edition of the 101 Best Restaurants, Jonathan Gold’s year-end list of where to eat in Los Angeles. Since its debut, “the 101” has...