I tasted 394 wines in one day. Here’s what I learned
Tasting wine can be hard work. Really. I’m not talking about a weekend with friends tooling around wine country in a fun bus. I am talking about the high-stakes analysis ...
Tag: Food
On the job with a restaurant utility worker: Rarely noticed by customers, essential to the business
In the back kitchen of Chapter One, a neighborhood gastropub in downtown Santa Ana, the restaurant’s chief busser and utility worker, Alfonso Lira, is in constant motion. He takes out ...
One of Mexico City’s best restaurants is popping up in downtown L.A.
At Mexico City’s Pujol, Enrique Olvera makes what could be the world’s most famous mole, and next month, Angelenos can taste it at a pop-up he’s planning for the restaurant’s ...
Nipsey Hussle’s legacy lives on with Marathon Burger, a new Melrose diner
You can smell the char of the Wagyu burgers from down the block, which is coincidentally how far the line often stretches. But at Melrose Avenue’s newest diner, the food ...
Michelin adds 15 restaurants to its California guide. Nearly half are in Los Angeles
Before the Michelin Guide publishes its annual compendium of the best California restaurants, the global dining authority inducts some of the region’s new and notable spots, inviting intrigue, celebration and ...
Three feel-good vegetable soups that take you from winter to spring
At the start of this year, I did some positive reframing of my self-flagellating resolutions and resolved to be nice to myself instead, by always having something healthy and comforting ...
Commentary: Los Angeles is a pickle city. Where to find pickle bagels, fried pickles and pickle nachos
Did social media videos of ranch pickles, chamoy pickles and glickles (pickles with edible glitter) make pickle lovers out of all of us during the pandemic? Or did TikTok just ...
Ayahuasca-lite? Why cacao ceremonies are showing up all over L.A.
Walking barefoot across the cool tile floor, her silver face gems twinkling in the sunlight, sound bath practitioner and energy healer Maya Andreeva distributed paper cups filled with brown liquid ...
Readers share memories of the Original Pantry Cafe, gone after 101 years
A fixture in L.A.’s dining scene since 1924, the Original Pantry Cafe closed on Sunday after a union contract dispute between the owners and staff, many of whom had worked ...
In pursuit of the perfect martini. No, there is no coffee. Yes, there is vermouth
There are few better places in the world one might begin to self-identify as a martini drinker than at Musso & Frank Grill, the 106-year-old Hollywood statehouse for martini consumption. ...
