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If it weren’t for the fact that the entire street, Montana Avenue, was deserted save for the half block radius around the restaurant, we would have driven right by Yu, which is in a space that used to be a Wolfgang Puck Cafe. It’s is dark on the outside, and there’s no sign. That seems [...]

Beacon opened to much hype, especially because the owner and chef is Kazuto Matsusaka, formerly head chef at Chinois. I never quite fell into the hype, but I became extremely curious after Los Angeles Magazine ranked Beacon the #1 restaurant in Los Angeles. What could be so great about Beacon to put it [...]

After a review of a visit to Nanbankan went up at The Delicious Life, a reader sent me an email telling me that though Nanbankan is good, there is a place that he prefers, slightly west on the same stretch of Santa Monica Boulevard. He only goes to Nanbankan if this other place is closed. [...]

Los Angeles is home to a growing movement of young wine lovers who program events in good humor, reasearch their wines with tireless curiosity and exhibit an undying taste for the grape. Here are a few tastings that make us want to polish our glasses and rid that lingering Altoids flavor from the back of [...]

i’m sure i’ve seen wabi sabi many times on my up and down drives of abbot kinney looking for parking to go somewhere else. it’s a narrow storefront that is very wabi sabi (adj.), modest and humble, except, well, for that horrible red and green neon sign that screams “wabi sabi!” the dining room stretches [...]