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    Real Charmer: Los Angeles Cocktail Bar Success

    Real Charmer: Los Angeles Cocktail Bar Success

    Real Charmer, a new Los Angeles cocktail bar, quickly became a local hotspot. Featuring creative drinks and a unique vibe, it offers a neighborhood gathering place and contributes to LA's cocktail culture.


    Chagee: Modern Tea House Debuts in Los Angeles

    Chagee: Modern Tea House Debuts in Los Angeles

    Chagee, a popular tea house chain from China, is opening its first US location in Los Angeles at Westfield Century City. Known for fresh-brewed and milk teas, the store offers a variety of tea lattes and brewed teas.


    ‘Top Chef’ Winner Mei Lin’s 88 Club Is the Most Exciting New Restaurant in Beverly Hills

    ‘Top Chef’ Winner Mei Lin’s 88 Club Is the Most Exciting New Restaurant in Beverly Hills

    Given her talent and fame, plus a solid team of chef de cuisine Nick Russo, restaurateur Miranda, former Gwen assistant general manager Diana Lee as the GM, and bartender Kevin Nguyen consulting on cocktails, the recipe looks good.


    Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: March 24

    Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: March 24

    Amid the charred vegetables (get the peas and broccolini), blistered paper-thin pizzas, and mains like roasted chicken with kale and harissa is something truly refreshing: Thai snapper crudo made in the style of an aguachile, tucked at the top of the menu laundry list.


    The 20 Best Korean Restaurants in Los Angeles

    The 20 Best Korean Restaurants in Los Angeles

    The nearly 30-year-old traditional wooden chairs and tables are enough of a reason to visit this dimly-lit strip mall space.Though crowds show up mainly for the superior bossam, a Korean specialty featuring pork belly slices and accompaniments, it’s worth trying basically everything on the menu, including the hulking seafood pajeon and kimchi stew in a stone pot.


    4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: February 14

    4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: February 14

    Pho Hue Oi’s bánh bèo aren’t available yet, but once the restaurants adds them to the menu, the delectable little rice and tapioca flour-filled cups topped with fried shrimp and drizzled with fish sauce will make for a a terrific appetizer.


    Can a Food and Wine-Focused Club in Beverly Hills Thrive in LA’s Crowded Members-Only Scene?

    Can a Food and Wine-Focused Club in Beverly Hills Thrive in LA’s Crowded Members-Only Scene?

    Traditionally, Los Angeles’s members-only club scene has conjured images of tuxedoed men and well-heeled women sipping stiff cocktails while Hollywood power brokers flit in the background, disappearing into velvet- or wood-lined rooms.


    Two Los Angeles Chefs Will Compete for the Title of ‘Top Chef’ on Season 22

    Two Los Angeles Chefs Will Compete for the Title of ‘Top Chef’ on Season 22

    Alongside Hong and Turner, the other “cheftestants” will include Anya El-Watter (Birch and Rye), César Murillo (North Pond), Shuai Wang (Jackrabbit Filly and King BBQ), Mimi Weissenborn (Sur Lie), and more.


    This Hidden Korean Tasting Menu Counter Is LA’s Most Exciting New Restaurant

    This Hidden Korean Tasting Menu Counter Is LA’s Most Exciting New Restaurant

    Once firmly into the main courses, Kim and the crew feature a steamed sea perch with scarlet prawn, dry-aged dairy cow with roasted sesame, creamy perilla noodles topped with shaved winter truffles, and charcoal-grilled lobster tail with doenjang sauce and raspberry powder.


    The Most Anticipated LA Restaurant Openings to Know About in 2025

    The Most Anticipated LA Restaurant Openings to Know About in 2025

    I’ve recapped this in full for Time Out, but personally, I’m most excited for Bryant Ng and Kim Luu-Ng’s Jade Rabbit in Santa Monica.


    The Saddest LA Restaurant Closures in 2024

    The Saddest LA Restaurant Closures in 2024

    Lien Ta is incredibly resilient, and my visits to her colorful Silver Lake corner were consistently memorable, but All Day Baby ultimately couldn’t survive mercurial market forces and the heartbreaking loss of her co-founder, chef Jonathan Whitener.


    A Prolific Italian Restaurateur Is Serving Tuscan Classics in an Iconic Beverly Grove Space

    A Prolific Italian Restaurateur Is Serving Tuscan Classics in an Iconic Beverly Grove Space

    Fettuccine prepared tableside in a Parmesan cheese wheel, bone marrow risotto, and tagliolini with preserved Meyer lemons, scampi crudo tartare, and caviar round out the pasta selections.


    The 17 Best Restaurants in Downtown Los Angeles

    The 17 Best Restaurants in Downtown Los Angeles

    The expansive poolside restaurant at Hotel Figueroa brings upscale Greek and other eastern Mediterranean flavors to Downtown such as bluefin tuna “dolmades,” various kinds of mezze, and wagyu souvlaki, and slow-cooked duck shawarma in a high-ceiling lounge-style dining room.


    The Biggest Los Angeles Restaurant Openings in October 2024

    The Biggest Los Angeles Restaurant Openings in October 2024

    It will eventually expand to lunch service with signature bowls of ramen and hand rolls served all day and shareable Japanese-influenced comfort dishes like grilled skewers, tempura, chicken kaarage, and gyoza in the evenings.


    10 Los Angeles Restaurants That Closed in October 2024

    10 Los Angeles Restaurants That Closed in October 2024

    Chef Raphael Francois partnered with wine professional Jordan Ogron and restaurateur Bill Chait back in June 2018, serving polished French bistro fare in a gorgeous, dimly lit space.


    The East Coast’s Most Popular Lobster Roll Chain Splashes Into Santa Monica

    The East Coast’s Most Popular Lobster Roll Chain Splashes Into Santa Monica

    Her work delves into how digital culture shapes real-life dining trends, and examines the relationship between food and community as neighborhoods change.


    The Next Generation of Celebrity Chefs Is Already Huge on TikTok

    The Next Generation of Celebrity Chefs Is Already Huge on TikTok

    He vlogged the entire process for his YouTube channel, showing viewers a “day in the life” of a line cook as he surgically trimmed away the pith and peel from an orange, skewered chicken thighs for negima yakitori, and precisely cut sheets of nori for hand rolls.