Eating L.A.

L.A. Chinese across from Rambutan on Sunset is surely one of L.A.'s scariest restaurants, from the peeling sign to the prison cafeteria interior to the seeming indifference to actual customers. I may ...

No matter how often I go to Intelligentsia and Lamill, I don't seem to be able to turn into a permanent coffee snob. In fact, until the fancy places opened up, I usually drank Cafe Bustelo espresso in...

The chowteens and I took a quick trip to San Diego this week, and although most of the time we were too busy basking in the warm ocean to worry about food, we managed to hit two of San Diego's best pl...

In its latest list of LA Times departures, LA Observed says former Food Section editor Leslie Brenner is leaving the paper -- not surprising, since the LA Times Magazine was killed and the food sectio...

Small restaurants have already been hit hard by the rising price of food. The days of great under-$5 lunches at tiny hole-in-the-walls are fast disappearing, with taco trucks and the food stands of Gr...

Back in January, a Chowhound poster first tried the new Pasadena Thai fusion spot Daisy Mint and wrote a glowing review cryptically titled Pasadena Discovery. I took note, but the location near Pasad...

An invitation to a tasting preview alerts us that the country-modern, culinarily-problematic Tart at the Farmer's Daughter motel is trying for yet another comeback with recently-hired chef Lauren Kyle...

EatingLA spoke to Viet from Viet Noodle Bar today about his new sandwich and wrap offshoot next to the noodle bar. The compact Viet Wrap 'n Roll, at 3133 Glendale Blvd., is nearly finished, with a sta...

I'm sorry to report that Chris Rubin, longtime food, wine and travel writer for publications including Travel & Leisure, the L.A. Times, Variety and the Los Feliz Ledger, died Friday in Los Angele...

When mystery author Denise Hamilton set out to write her latest novel, "The Last Embrace," she didn't want her characters to only frequent old Hollywood standbys like Musso and Frank and the Pacific D...