Miles Thompson may only be 24, but his elevated vision is evident in his gorgeous menu divided into 6 sections. Open only since January, Allumette will be featured at LA Weekly's #PLATE this year Leggi tutto.
Enjoy a craft beer, local wine or a mezcal flight while sharing a bowl of frijoles churros or cochinita pibil. Try the fried broccoli-like huazontles capiados - A dish you won't find outside Mexico! Leggi tutto.
Border Grill is the rare mainstream Mexican restaurant whose tacos don't make you yearn for a truck parked by an auto-parts junkyard somewhere in East L.A. Leggi tutto.
Right next to L.A. City College, it has a rich, artisanal roast but with none of the other stifling coffee shop pretensions - plus they play great music! They also offer coffee-making classes. Leggi tutto.
Canele feels more like an ongoing dinner party that tolerates strangers at its tables! A featured restaurant at PLATE - LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food & Wine Event! Cooking worthy of the good china! Leggi tutto.
Rice bowls! Start with charred asparagus or fluffy Korean meatballs. Try the "$12 salad'' too! The only dessert is a deconstructed Rocky Road sundae with caramel, brownies & marshmallow fluff... YUM! Leggi tutto.
It is always worth the drive south of USC to the Mercado la Paloma, if only to order a few of chef Gilberto Cetina's fantastic cochinita pibil tacos! Don't forget the house-made habanero sauce! Leggi tutto.
Fluff Ice! Now featured at the LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food & Wine Event, PLATE! Choose from 9 flavors of snow, 14 toppings and two syrups. Try the Green Tea shaved snow with red beans & egg pudding! Leggi tutto.
Open 24 hours, Fred 62 serves beer and wine, along with non-diner fare. The tattooed waitresses in colorful tights are always nice! The Mac Daddy 'n' Cheese bombs are a crave-worthy belly bomb of yum! Leggi tutto.
At the various LA soccer pubs, you're lucky to get scrambled eggs and limp bacon with your Cup match. But Guelaguetza is one of the best Oaxacan restaurants in the country! Try the botana platter! Leggi tutto.
The prosciutto-stuffed croissants & flaky bacon-maple biscuits are sublime! It gets crowded on Sunday mornings so go early! Featured at PLATE LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food & Wine Event March 3rd, 2013! Leggi tutto.
Featured in LA Weekly's "L.A.'s Best Cocktails: Our 55 favorites and where to find them." (Click 'More Info') Leggi tutto.
Fish, man - raw fish - from Tokyo’s Tsukiji Market and jetted right to you, careful slabs of yellowtail, tuna, fluke, sprinkled with salt & drizzled olive oil, Italian sashimi on a pretty glass plate! Leggi tutto.
When you need to show visitors the diversity and wonder still possible in LA restaurants, Jitlada is Exhibit A. Southern Thai specialties feature the infamous endorphin bomb Kua Kling Phat Tha Lung! Leggi tutto.
Chefs Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu are everywhere if you follow Spanish-language media. Try the purple-corn pozole, delicious enfrijoladas, and an impeccable version of chiles en nogada! Leggi tutto.
Every time I go to the restaurant I run into something a regular would have known, like the fact that the brunch frittatas are tough but the poached eggs with fennel-pollen Hollandaise are luscious. Leggi tutto.
"...an edgy, grown-up restaurant serving an Asianized, farm-centered, technique-oriented small-plates menu, ... with even more polish: a new sort of cuisine." - Jonathan Gold Leggi tutto.
Night + Market has a menu based on the bar snack. You will find a kind of Thai tapas, a unit of consumption carefully calibrated to the refreshment inherent in a single bottle of Singha ~Jonathan Gold
The BLTs come with arugula; the hash is made with spicy pulled pork instead of canned corned beef; and all the toast, including the cinnamon-dusted Nickel Bag, is made with bread baked fresh in-house! Leggi tutto.
The child of Max chef André Guerrero, perfected fast-food. The old-school paradigm of pastrami, burgers & chicken reinvented w/ artisanal soda pop, Fosselman's-based ube milkshakes and Belgian fries! Leggi tutto.
"You're eating spicy pork belly with raw garlic and fresh herbs. And sometimes, maybe most of the time, happiness is an end in itself." - Jonathan Gold
The spiritual home of the French dip, the famous sandwich of carved meat on a jus-soaked roll + 9 cent coffee, 50 cent iced tea, 60 cent lemonade, perfect coleslaw and pies & sawdust covered floors! Leggi tutto.
The category of anticuchos has been expanded to include skewered sweet potatoes with honey, salmon with miso, & even cherry tomatoes with burrata but the original corazón is breathtakingly good! Leggi tutto.
It's not just moles! Try crisp empanadas, lamb mixiotes, an obscure pork dish called carne de chango (smoked w/ sugar cane), & cream of grasshopper soup! Featured in PLATE- LA Weekly's Food Event 3/3! Leggi tutto.
Come to sample Starry Kitchen and others at this years Gold Standard on 3/6/11! http://bit.ly/iaPthT Leggi tutto.
Try the Tuesday night $15 Tavern plates! The food on the PUB GRUB menu is a good value and it is delicious & pairs well with drinking many pints of Guiness. The garlic bread eats more like a sandwich! Leggi tutto.
Best Ramen - 2012! Since opening last August it has become the most serious purveyor of Hakata tonkotsu in town, with noodle-loving crowds waiting outside the building at opening time. -Garrett Snyder Leggi tutto.
It aims to be all things to all people, at least all people who don't mind a sausage or two for dinner, people who think it might be a good idea to down a high-proof Unibroue La Fin Du Monde. Leggi tutto.
Celebrity chef Roy Choi recently re-formatted the menu to be on bigger plates & the food is like an island vacation! Plates come with rice and coleslaw. All the sandwiches comes with yucca fries. Yum! Leggi tutto.
Park's Tokyo-X crossbred pork belly may be the best pig in Koreatown & at more than $30 for an order of sliced Kobe-style beef, this is the most expensive Korean BBQ in town... but its 100% worth it! Leggi tutto.
The smoked sablefish - if you can get hold of some before it runs out - with cream cheese & sliced red onion on a fresh bagel, is a truly satisfying breakfast! Try the roast beef sandwich for lunch! Leggi tutto.
