Salad doesn’t need to be boring. L.A. has access to fantastic produce and global influences that help to keep meals interesting. Plenty of restaurants know that. I typically prefer salads with a jolt of...
I’m a food writer, which breaks down to two restaurant meals per day that are driven by a pending assignment or an endless hunger for variety. I do occasionally get a spare meal, and...
A prominent chef I interviewed refuses to order from the specials board, convinced it’s the provenance of tired ingredients and untested dishes. There are certainly places that would follow those unseemly practices, but I’m...