Sticky Rice
Sticky Rice is the closest thing you’ll ever get to a Thai street-stall meal in Los Angeles. There are very few fie items on their menu at Grand Central Market, and they give the utmost attention to each and every...
Month: June 2017
KazuNori
Sometimes, spin-offs happen to be better than the original version — that’s almost never the case, but KazuNori is an excellent example. Not that Sugarfish is bad, but there are sushi restaurants all over Los Angeles that deserve your attention...
Proof
“The proof is in the pudding”, they say. Well it is also in this financier which is a big as a fist, if a fist could have such a good buttery smell. But the proof is also in this rhubarb...
Lasa
Former pop-up now all grown up, Lasa was once an ephemeral restaurant in Alvin Cailan’s (Eggslut) Unit 120, then became the centerpiece of Far East Plaza for lunch and dinner. The Valencia brothers run the place, Chase in the dining...
Wax Paper
It’s hard to find a more hipster sandwich shop in Los Angeles, but we love this one because they almost didn’t do it on purpose: Wax Paper is made out of shipping containers in Frogtown near the LA river, and...
Side Chick
In the outdoor section of Westfield’s food court, there’s a chicken connoisseur: Johnny Lee, barely 30, cooks some of the best Hainan chicken in Los Angeles. There are other Chinese and Singaporean specialties, but we come here for the chicken...
Botanica
If it’s your first time at Botanica, avoid the weekend brunch and pretend you’re a regular: go for a weekday breakfast or an ‘apéro’. Sit on the patio, and you’ll be at the epicenter of the Silverlake trend: millennial pink...
Jinpachi
Forget Sugarfish, Jinpachi has the best sushi deal in town: order a sushi moriawase ($22 for lunch, $32 for dinner) and you shall receive an eight-piece sushi platter, a full roll, soup and salad. If you’re in luck, you might...
Marvin
Marvin is a restaurant open until midnight (a rare thing in LA), but you want to treat it as a wine bar, the way French people do apéro: meet friends on their sidewalk red tables, order a bottle of wine...
The Exchange
The Exchange, aka the restaurant at the bottom of the very-very-cool Freehand Hotel, could have been a simple lobby restaurant serving club sandwiches all day and club sodas all night. But when the Sino-Mexican chef Alex Chang meets the Israeli...