At this point you are probably acquainted with Neapolitan pizza, the freckled-edge pies that have dominated the authenticity-obsessed pizza scene over the past decade or so. But what about fried pizza? At the first U.S. location of Naples’s famed L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele—the same pizza spot that Julia Roberts visited in the film Eat Pray […]
A First Look at the Grub at the Good Burger Pop-Up Diner in WeHo
“Welcome to Good Burger, home of the Good Burger, can I take your order?” That’s the line Kel Mitchell made famous on the 1990s kids sketch show All That and its 1997 cinematic spin-off, Good Burger. Now, that famous line and fictional restaurant has spawned a pop-up in West Hollywood to coincide with Nickelodeon’s All That […]
3 New Restaurants You Have to Try in July
Whether you’re craving seafood, updated Aussie fare, or a stiff drink fit for Frank Sinatra, we’ve got you covered with this month’s best new restaurants. Five Leaves This modish all-day spot in the shadow of the Scientology Center originally hails from Brooklyn but serves an Australia-inflected menu (there’s a beet slice on the burger), an […]
3 New Restaurants You Have to Try This June
From a new French spot in Los Feliz to a restaurant inside an old firehouse downtown, here are three new L.A. restaurants worth checking out this month. Loupiotte Kitchen A slice of Paris along Vermont Avenue, this daytime spot is the work of two restaurateurs who ran a bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. At […]
Can Innovative New Restaurant Auburn Break Its Space’s Curse?
The low-slung, sharp-edged building at the corner of Citrus and Melrose avenues has plenty of stories to tell. Few of them have happy endings. It was previously home to upscale restaurants like Michel Richard’s Citrus as well as Alex, Meson G, and Red Pearl Kitchen—the last three of which opened and shuttered in a span […]
3 New Restaurants You Have to Try This May
From international mashups in Venice to modern Chinese in Historic Filipinotown, here are three new L.A. restaurants worth checking out this month. Yours Truly Vartan Abgaryan brings his penchant for culinary globe-trotting to Abbot Kinney with a menu of twists on established hits. Avocado “hummus,” spiked with a peanut-studded salsa macha, is scooped up with […]