Los Angeles Chicken and Rice Plates Worth Seeking
“Years ago, Break of Dawn chef-owner Dee Nguyen posted on Facebook: “Our ultimate dying meal if we have to pick one: chicken and rice.” That post stuck with me. I’m not ready for the...
Los Angeles Chicken Dishes Worth Seeking
Chefs can braise, charbroil, grill, poach, roast, smoke or steam chickens. Any way they choose to cook the birds, I’ll devour them down to the bone. Sure, heritage breed, ethically raised chickens from a...
Coconut Lunch Box Chicken Pepper Fry + Kerala Perotta [CLOSED]
Canoga Park strip malls have become a bigger culinary draw in recent years. At Coconut Lunch Box, one of my favorite new Canoga Park restaurants, owner Abhilash Kurian serves spicy Indian cuisine from Kerala....
Baroo Karma Circulation
If any Los Angeles restaurant has built up karma, it’s Baroo, a tiny spot from chef Kwang Uh and business partner Matthew Kim that preaches fermentation in an unassuming strip mall, but has earned...
Gjusta Rotisserie Chicken
Gjusta has really grown on me since opening on a Venice side street in 2014. The multi-faceted Venice food destination from chef Travis Lett and business partner Fran Camaj now joins Gold’s Gym in...
Village Kitchen Bandits in Xiangxi Chicken
Kearny Mesa and neighboring Clairemont in San Diego continue to collect regional Chinese restaurants with such regularity that I no longer feel compelled to consume Chinese food exclusively in my nearby San Gabriel Valley....
