Recommended dishes: Fried chicken skin, grilled chicken with ginger sauce, scallop carpaccio, kake udon, zaru udon, plum shiso bukkake udon, cod roe butter squid udon. Read more.
You could try to eat your way through the list of specials at the back of Jitlada's menu, a roster of ferociously spicy southern Thai dishes mostly unavailable outside Nakhon, but it'd be difficult. Read more.
Get there early: The lamb shoulder or sea urchin you've been craving may be sold out within minutes. Read more.
The menu here reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary post-structuralism, mixing flavors and structures from Spain, France and western China, and Mexico and Peru. Read more.
If you want to understand the power structure of South Los Angeles, you could do worse than to eavesdrop over smoked-salmon hash and a bloody mary at Post & Beam after church on a Sunday afternoon. Read more.
The photomurals of the Cedars of Lebanon have become a bit tattered, but the cooking becomes more vibrant year after year. Read more.
In front of a former wholesaler's office, Raul Ortega serves his famous crunchy fried shrimp tacos in the style of San Juan de Los Lagos, his Jalisco hometown. Read more.
Chichén Itzá could pass for one of the better market restaurants in Mérida. Read more.
It is hard to say what is better: his goat's milk gelato with toasted cocoa nibs, the yogurt gelato with sea salt and olive oil, the blood orange sorbetto or the gelato. Read more.
This restaurant has set the pho standard in the San Gabriel Valley since Duran Duran was at the top of the charts. Read more.
Kevin Bludso specializes in thick hunks of slow-cooked cow. There is a sweet, peppery sauce, but the beef ribs and the coarse sausage don't need it.
You're probably there for a crack at the impossibly rich bacon cheddar biscuits, and we can't say that we blame you. Read more.
Get your Carolina-style slaw dogs, Italian dogs, rippers, cremators, Hatch chile dogs—made with artisanal, natural-skin, small-production franks imported from New Jersey. Read more.
Angel City Brewing's French Sip beer contains a bevy of uncommon brewing ingredients — including rosemary, peppercorns & umami-rich seaweed — to capture the savory essence of the French dip sandwich. Read more.
With an inventive menu, smart urban setting and late-night hours, Bäco Mercat already feels like a fixture in downtown L.A. The food is gutsy and delicious and the prices are moderate. Read more.
