Amiguita Review: Silver Lake’s New Afro-Caribbean Restaurant Is Your Next Hot Date Night
In our Dining Reports, we share a firsthand perspective of a recent restaurant visit, covering everything from the…
Taco Nazo Review: Where to Get Los Angeles’s Best Fish Taco
When restaurants claim to have the world’s best blank — pancakes, coffee, cookies — it almost always suggests…
Head to West Oakland for Impossibly Soft Sponge Cake
Grand Opening is the bakery from acclaimed pastry chef Melissa Chou, who’s worked in the kitchens of Michelin-starred…
Review: A Reborn Echo Park Sports Bar Goes for the Unexpected
Some restaurant locations seem damned to eternal turnover. The stretch of Echo Park Avenue just north of Sunset…
Studio Estepan Has Serious Bread Game in Oakland
Estevan Silva’s new bread bakery, Studio Estepan, opened in March 2026at West Oakland’s O2 Artisans Aggregate, home to…
Bleu Bird Is Redefining Fast-Food Chicken
When Bleu Kitchen chef Calvin “Grubby” Johnson reached out to me to share his newest venture, I knew…
Is This Berkeley’s Masa Heaven? I Think So.
Owner and chef Emmanuel Galvan founded his pop-up Bolita Masa as a study in masa, using rare heirloom…
Review: Hot Schiacciata Summer Is Forever at Pino’s Sandwiches
Los Angeles has a complicated relationship with transplant restaurants. Some come to this corner of the Southland with…
Lynx Review: Josh Skenes’ Mysterious Arts District Pizza Bar Is an Avant-Garde Masterpiece
In our Dining Reports, we share a firsthand perspective of a recent restaurant visit, covering everything from the…
One Crispy Taco to Rule Them All
Los Angeles’s pantheon of crispy tacos comes down to a few crowned contenders, all of whom have avid…
Follow the Queue to San Francisco Smash Burger Nirvana at Maillards
Maillards steadily won over fans over the last few years as a smash burger pop-up at the Outer…
Didar Kitchen Is the Neighborhood Persian Restaurant Sherman Oaks Deserves
Saghar Fanisalek, chef and owner of Westwood’s Taste of Tehran, has taken her talents to Sherman Oaks with…