Matzo ball soup is a touchy subject. The fluffy, cream-colored dumplings bathed in golden chicken broth are not all created equal, and those who love them have their
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All of the tools have a story, says Evan Funke's chef de cuisine, Andrew Naffziger. He is pointing at a glass-encased room behind which Funke stands, carefully arra
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Earlier this month, we released our 99 Essential Restaurants in Los Angeles package for 2017, along with its new sister list, the Freshmen 15 (for the newbie restaur
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Should hunger strike as you're rolling along the I-15 approaching Victorville, it might seem as though the only options are fast food or chain restaurants. Fortunate
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There's some rather excellent food being served in Culver City these days. The city's last culinary heyday was circa 2008, when a number of upscale restaura
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We're only a few days out from Coachella 2017 and while the artist lineup surfaced months ago, the food lineup was just released.We can expect more Asian cuisine th
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The Coachella food lineup was announced on Monday, and the options are impressive, with a lot of Asian cuisine represented. This year, more buzzy restaurants are sho
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Chez Tex is a restaurant in the old-fashioned model, a mom-and-pop so true to the genre that the couple in question literally became parents within the first weeks o
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In recent months I've found myself yearning for more restaurants like Chez Tex. Places that are obviously driven by actual people and their strengths. Places th
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There's a little restaurant in an area of South El Monte that's mostly full of warehouses and factories and the occasional dive bar. It's called Focus, a
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Before sustainable? was a term bloated with cultural cachet and venture-capitalist funding, there was a little health food store that helped start that arm of the f
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The breakfast taco takeover of Los Angeles continues apace, this time with a chain restaurant getting into the mix.It's a local chain, and it's small. And it
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