Potential whale sightings and guaranteed views of the Pacific Ocean are often reasons enough for Angelenos to venture to Ranchos Palos Verdes to commit to a meal at Mar’sel. Now people can add brunch to the mix. Terranea Resort’s marquee restaurant introduced the hybrid meal...
Perly’s is a classic Richmond diner with purple walls, classical music, a row of two-seat booths down the middle, pottery on shelves, and a vintage gold cash register. Gray Wyatt’s place, named for one of his aunts, is also well known for their biscuits, which...
Tsujita LA rose to the top of the L.A. ramen heap when Takehiro Tsujita started serving lunch-time only tonkotsu (and tsukemen) on Little Osaka’s Sawtelle Boulevard in 2012, but that wasn’t enough for the skilled Japanese noodle wrangler. His company opened a ramen-only Annex across...
Soondae! Soondae! Soondae! No, it isn’t just a reference to the monster truck rally commercials of my youth. It’s also what was racing through my head at Yu Hyang, a Los Angeles restaurant owned by North Korean immigrants Charles Kim and Jung Hee Kim, which...
Koreatown is undoubtedly the most impressive stronghold for Korean cuisine in the U.S., and now, some outlying cuisines are starting to find representation in the neighborhood that’s loosely framed by Western and Vermont Avenues, 3th Street & Olympic Boulevard. Isaan Station, from Porapat Neungjumnong, occupies...
There was an old fashioned pig picking at Pebble Beach Food & Wine, but that was behind the scenes, where Los Angeles based chef Ray Garcia dismantled a hog to create two dishes for the 2013 festival. At Thursday’s opening night party, he served satisfying...