The name of chef Keiichi Kurobe’s debut solo restaurant is a reference to kurofune, the Japanese term for the first fleet of American ships that landed in Tokyo Bay in the 1850s, opening markets between isolated Edo-era Japan and the West. As expanding trade routes tend to do, the cross-cultural exchange led to a wave […]
This New Silver Lake Pizzeria Is Throwing It Back to 1990s Style
Try to remember a time before you judged a pizza by its strict adherence to the Vera Pizza Napoletana guidelines. A time when barbecue chicken, complete with swirls of sauce, was a very cool topping, and the thick, chewy crust of a personal pan pizza was the ultimate Friday night essential. California Sun, opening this […]
3 New Restaurants You Have to Try This February
From modern Chinese in Pasadena to a modern mezcal bar in Venice,there are a lot of new restaurants to check out this month. Here are our picks for December’s buzziest new restaurants. Dan With a tight menu of pork-filled xiao long bao and wok-cooked vegetables, this modern dumpling house from restaurateur James Kim ups the […]
Chef Christophe Émé Is Trying Something Way More Low Key with Kass
Christophe Émé wants to keep his food uncomplicated. When the Loire, France-born chef ran one of the city’s most ambitious (and expensive) French restaurants a decade ago, that would have seemed like an unusual goal for him. Before it unceremoniously closed in 2011, his haute supper club, Ortolan, garnered endless praise from critics and nabbed […]