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Lord Maynard Llera, of Filipino restaurant Kuya Lord, is in the running for the category of best chef: California this year. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) In January, 18 of L.A.’s most beloved pop-ups, restaurants, bakers, rising-star talents and established names earned nods as semifinalists for the 2024 James Beard Foundation Awards. This morning, … Read more

More than 100,000 festival-goers will head to the desert for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, including some of L.A’s most beloved chefs and restaurants. (FOODSTEEZ) Every year L.A. empties out for two back-to-back weekends when more than 100,000 festival-goers head to the low desert for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While last year’s … Read more

Palestinians carry the body of a person following an airstrike at the Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 1. Reports say an apparent Israeli airstrike killed international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and a Palestinian driver. (Abdel Kareem Hana / Associated Press) Multiple members of the international … Read more

Goodbye, snails. Hello, white beans. This favorite Saigon street snack goes vegan Snails are popular Vietnamese street fare and in no place is that more apparent than on Vinh Khanh Street in Saigon’s District 4. Affectionately dubbed “Snail Street” for its dense concentration of stalls and shops devoted entirely to mollusks, the corridor is packed … Read more

An order of soba from Sobar in Culver City. (Sobar) “I’m going to tell you how to eat it.” The woman behind the counter at Sobar, a narrow restaurant on the congested corner of Washington Boulevard and Centinela Avenue in Culver City, is serious. My bamboo sieve of soba noodles comes with a set of … Read more

How one mall has become a culture-defining hub for Orange County’s newest Koreatown From the outside, the Source OC looks like a typical outdoor mall in Southern California with concrete and glass architecture and neon lights. But the entertainment and dining destination offers a unique window into Orange County’s newest, trendiest Koreatown. On any given … Read more

A fool-proof method for hard-boiled eggs makes for an egg that is easy to peel, according to former L.A. Times Food section editor Russ Parsons. (Rebecca Peloquin / For The Times) Newsletter You are reading our Cooking newsletter Sign up to get a taste of Los Angeles — and the world — in your own … Read more

(Illustration by Karan Singh / For The Times) Koreatown is a neighborhood of extremes. At any time of day, its streets surge with traffic, car horns blaring as they dart through traffic lights. Nondescript shopping malls and plazas give way to smokehouses specializing in everything from coal-fired seafood to pan-grilled duck. And at night, when … Read more

New York’s fanciest ‘Korean wave’ restaurants go where L.A. doesn’t: caviar and kimchi Near the end of a week spent delving into Manhattan’s upwelling of modern Korean fine dining restaurants last fall, I watched a server at Oiji Mi light a blowtorch tableside and turn it toward a platter of Wagyu bavette steak carved into … Read more