"How to Eat L.A. will be on a publishing break for the next two or three months as I work on improving processes, content, and most importantly, The Map. I'm currently using Google Maps, but I'm working on a custom product that I'm very excited to show off [...]
"Delhi Belly: Good food, weird service! The coconut pumpkin curry is fantastic and extremely spicy, the amritsari fish fry is a treat (you'll think you won't finish the plate, but then you will), and the tandoori Cornish game hen is one of the best in town. Rice is [...]
"Tiki culture as we know it was invented in Hollywood — couldn't have happened anywhere else. The founding father was a bootlegging fabulist known as Don the Beachcomber who became friends with producers and actors by consulting on movies set in the Pacific; he said he had lived [...]
"Victory Bread: This is a tiny outlet, with room really for only one customer at a time. It's cash only. The woman at the counter and I didn't speak the same language, which I didn't initially realize, and when I asked her what a particular cake was, she [...]
"Season two, episode five of "Columbo" featured a scene shot at Sportsmen's Lodge, an entity you could call a restaurant but was really more of a community center for multiple generations of Angelenos." Read the article here: Sportsmen's Lodge: Where Hollywood Went Suburban Subscribe to see [...]
"Posto 896 is, in a lot of ways, an archetypal Los Angeles hidden gem. It’s in the Valley, next to an eyelash extension store in a run-down strip mall with valet-only parking. The food is interesting and thoughtful, another standard feature of our understated restaurants. However, inside there’s [...]
"Comfort food comes in so many forms." Read the article here: Eat Here: Multiple Islands in Two Restaurants Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters. If you'd like to donate without subscribing, you can do so on Venmo and PayPal. Thank you! Find me on [...]
"Los Angeles' most glittering restaurant specialized in chili. But Ronald Reagan loved the boiled beef." Read the article here: Chasen's Served the Most Expensive Beans in L.A. Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters.
"When you've got a sweet tooth. (And a savory tooth, too.)" Read the article here: Eat Here: Time for a Treat Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters.
"One of the great pleasures of writing about food and restaurant history is all the ephemera I come across."Read the article here:Kelbo's: 1986's 'Funkiest Place in L.A.' Subscribe to see all of our How to eat LA newsletters.
