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Austrian cuisine hits Beverly Hills

BierBeisl isn’t a locally minded restaurant. Whenever possible, chef Bernhard Mairinger turns to the country of his birth, Austria, to stock the kitchen of his new Beverly...

What's in a Noodle?

Sawtelle's "inauthentic" Miyata Menji

"Inauthentic" is a dirty word in many food circles. So it's no wonder that the opening of Miyata Menji made the food blogosphere balk. This, after all, is a new noodle spot on...

Shunji's Whim

Shunji Nakao's latest restaurant

We've become unabashed fans of a welding-shop parking lot in West L.A. There we parked our car en route to a smashing meal at Shunji, a new restaurant housed in a space that was...

Pas the Pintxos

Ración brings contemporary Spanish cooking to Old Town

There are plenty of food-related reasons for driving to Pasadena. Goat's-milk gelato (in Altadena), khachapuri and Roma Italian Deli are a few of the dining draws. Now there is...

New York Neapolitan

The pizzas of Delfini Città

The days of Los Angeles being a wasteland of bad pizza are long behind us. With Neapolitan-style wood-burning ovens dotting the restaurant landscape, you can now find imitators of...

Sunset's Latest Bloom

Blossom hits Silver Lake with new dishes, beer and wine

"Hipster Vietnamese" is an increasingly familiar restaurant genre. The tables are invariably of blond wood, the walls gleaming white, and an alt-top-40 playlist of indie rock hits...