In 1960s-era Los Angeles, sushi was still an esoteric, completely unfamiliar food. It took Tokyo Kaikan in downtown L.A.'s Little Tokyo in the early 1970s to put
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It's time to party like it's 2018, and we've picked out nine L.A.-area restaurants offering special New Year's Eve menus.To help ring in the New Year
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If you are headed home for the holidays, you might be expecting to see your uncle who tells you every year that good whiskey only comes from Scotland. At your offic
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Most people in their 70s are enjoying their retirement, reading a book at home or relaxing at a quiet beach. Not Danny Trejo, who at 73 is still a badass, with a th
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It always brings us much heartache and melancholy to report on the worst trends of the year. One would hope for another year of delicious, exciting, favorable long-s
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2017 has surely been a stellar year for L.A.'s restaurants, with the high-profile openings of not one but two tasting-menu-only restaurants, Vespertine and Dial
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It's Hanukkah, which usually means jelly doughnuts and latkes, but if you were at Fat Sal's Hollywood this past weekend, you got a whole lot more. In honor of t
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Michael Voltaggio wore a T-shirt that read People Hate Me on Yelp at the Gold Standard food event in 2012 as he served beef tongue dunked in liquid nitrogen. This wa
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ink. briefly turned into a steakhouse but eventually relocated and got an extra word in its name earlier this year. ink.well is a stripped-down version of the origin
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I stood nervously alone on a rather empty street corner in Hollywood at half past midnight on a Tuesday. I had signed up to be the sole audience member of a short, i
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At the gates, a constellation of lights dangles overhead from signs advertising treats and tchotchkes. A sonic barrage of classic pop obliterates conversation as soo
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Back then, people would love to just hear us talk, says restaurateur Nick Mathers of his early days in New York 14 years ago. Now there are so many Australians ? I m
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