Bill Addison

One of the best tasting menus in Los Angeles is served on a folding table, in a dark alley next to a dumpster. It’s where Justin Pichetrungsi hosts his omakase dinners, behind Anajak Thai, his family’s Sherman Oaks restaurant. It is the meal I...

[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...

Late last week, when I needed a fast lunch, I remembered I had a tin of mussels in pickled sauce on hand. I’d picked them up while buying wine at Tilda, the new Echo Park bar that has shifted to retail during the shutdown. (My visit became part of...

I stood in line for four hours to eat a chili dog last weekend. You’re probably wondering whether it was wrapped in gold leaf or covered in rare-breed truffles or otherwise so extraordinary that I had to devote a whole afternoon to getting it. In...

Art's Famous Chili Dogs   

Oxtail stew is a favorite mainstay on Yonette Alleyne’s menu for Caribbean Gourmet, the pop-up and catering business that spotlights dishes from her native Guyana. She simmers the fleshy knobs long enough so the meat nudges easily from the bones;...