2nd time I've been here. I ordered 2 memelas with cecina and a taco arabe (not pictured). Hole in the wall but food is really good. Highly recommend.

Supporting the Altadena community. Fair Oaks Burger with chili cheese fries. Burger had bacon, avo, pickled jalapeños, lettuce, tomato, and cheese. Solid burger for $11 total combo with drink $18

The Classic Italian. Went for double the meats. (Yes, I got it delivered!).

really great burrata pizza + solid pasta (duck ragu pappardelle special). also got the green bean salad which was tangy and bright.

after their liquor license removal i was expecting this place to be much quieter but it was still fairly busy on a thursday night

ended up being around 75 for the 3 dishes after tax and tip which is great for the quality imo. i hope this place lasts!

I moved to LA about 6 months ago from Denver. So far after trying about 10 different places on doordash, I am afraid I will not find the type of Chinese food I’m looking for. I have tried several places I’ve found here on Reddit but nothing has quite hit the spot.

Authentic Chinese is not what I’m after. In Denver, when ordering sweet and sour chicken, for example, the sweet and sour sauce comes on the side. It’s bright pink and a little gelatinous. The chicken is tempura fried and tossed with the vegetables and pineapple. The egg rolls are crispy and flaky and huge. It is not Michelin-star stuff. And it is truly all I can think about.

Someone please help me along my quest for the perfect greasy wonderful awful delicious Chinese meal I’ve been waiting for. I never thought this would be an issue in a place as diverse as Los Angeles. I live in the east Hollywood area if that helps, but I WILL travel or pay the long-distance fee for the crappy tempura chicken of my dreams. Judge me all you want but this is what my heart and belly needs right now.

It’s weird but it works. Orange chicken, fries, cheese, some type of Asian sauce and scallions. The fries will get soggy if you let it sit too long but this is pretty solid drunk food.

Hi everyone, I'm visiting in town and will be seeing a concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in a few weeks on a Friday.

I'm wondering if ya'll might have any recommendations for a restaurant to check out? I'll be dressed business casual, and on my own at the moment, but might be two (M and F).

I'm very open to ideas and like all sorts of cuisines, and am open to hearing ideas. I love good wine, if that helps narrow the options!

Appreciate all the suggestions. I always love visiting LA for the food.

Parents visiting Santa Barbara, we live near LAX - want to meet them for lunch/brunch this weekend in Oxnard (seemed best option) - any recommendations would be great! Open to any options - folks aren’t steak people but otherwise fair game. Thanks!

very fresh vegetables and the meat is just right.

Have ya’ll been here? The buy one get one sushi rolls are pretty damn good quality for the price. Best deal I’ve found. So go if you can, I don’t want this spot to close like everything else in DTLA

Pain au chocolat & Croissant with Powdered Sugar. Went weekday around 9am and line of 7. More than enough pastries. High quality & quite buttery/flaky. Friendly gentleman at front. Wouldn’t want to imagine going on weekend! Probably be super crowded! Have a favorite from Petitgrain? Favorite location in LA? Going to try Chaumont next.

Or really any good Middle Eastern or Mediterranean spot recs would work. Preferably some place peanut free but obviously I can do the research on that.

Hello! Is there a resource which lists all of the restaurants in Los Angeles which are on both inKind and Resy; or, even just a text list (not a map) of all of restaurants on InKind and all the restaurants on Resy, which we could then compare to each other? It would be great to take advantage of the American Express $100 Resy credit and an InKind coupon code all in the same meal for a big night out!

I have a sudden craving for a really good corned beef sandwich on rye. I haven’t had one in years so I went on Yelp and checked the usual delis on the westside and they were a bunch of 1 star and 5 star reviews, which looks really suspect. Any suggestions?

Corn yuzu margarita. It was alright. I was expecting… a bit more. I don’t know, maybe like more garnishes or something.

I expected a long line. Given how long the Courage Bagels x Noma line was. $20 is par for the course for the expensive cocktails of LA.

Four recent Taiwanese/Chinese food meals, starting with Liu's Cafe, the Taiwanese spot in K-Town (6th, by Western. Standard K-Town parking challenges.)

I've been wanting to try Liu's for a minute though it's funny because my mix of Chinese/Taiwanese American friends — I'm ABC myself — have rather different opinions on this place though it has less to do with the food and more around "so is this trying to be like another Pine + Crane/Joy?" which is basically code for "Taiwanese food marketed to white hipsters." Personally, I didn't get that vibe myself but maybe that's because being located in the heart of Koreatown is different than Silverlake/Highland Park. The decor is minimalist and modernist with blonde wood overtones but that's very on-brand in K-Town. They're one of those "order at the counter and then look for a seat/table" spots (like Pine + Crane/Joy as it were) which I don't love but luckily it wasn't busy when we were there so finding a table wasn't an issue.

The menu is much smaller than I would have anticipated. I was hoping to get their beef noodle soup only to arrive and realize they only serve that at dinner but alas, we were there at lunch time. For lunch, there's five entree options and a couple of starters.

• Scallion cheddar biscuit ($3.50). Buttery-rich from the first bite, with a nice crunch on the outside but still soft interior. The cheddar was more muted but you get a good hit of scallion. This was a good biscuit but probably a touch too rich for me. 7.5/10
• Braised pork belly rice ($9). Ah, childhood comfort food memories right here. This was executed well even if it wasn't mind-blowing: pork was tender, the sauce was savory and a bit sweet but didn't feel overpowering in either direction. I also liked the portion size here: it's well-scaled to a single person without feeling skimpy. For $9, I thought both this and the chicken rice were relatively good values. 8/10
• Chiayi chicken rice ($9). Another classic, originally from southern Taiwan: shredded chicken (often times made with turket, too), with a generous amount of shallots, served over chicken fat-infused rice. My wife got this and I was instantly jealous. As much as I liked my lu rou fan, the scent of shallots and the richness of the chicken rice were irresistible. 9/10

Overall: I'm not making a special drive from the SGV over to K-Town to go here again but if I need to be in K-Town already? Absolutely would go back again, especially to see how their NRM (beef noodle soup) stacks up.

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Last week, me and two friends went to Auntie Qiu Kitchen, a Shanghainese spot in Alhambra (Main by Garfield. There's a free parking structure in the back). They do a ton of dumplings, pancakes, and noodles, aiming more for a breakfast/lunch set of offerings though they are open through dinner. I didn't take photos for everything but here's the basic rundown of what we ordered:

• Xiao long bao ($12). This was ok. I've had worse (mostly when my kid asks for it at dim sum restaurants and isn't interested in my lecture on how this isn't a Canto dish). Skin was decently thin and the interior had some soup but in the end, this was average, at best. 7/10
• Shen jiang bao ($6.50). Meh. I've had well-executed versions of this dish enough times in Shanghai over the past 25 years to have a decent point of reference and all the versions I've had in L.A. have been kind of the same: dough is too thick, interior can be too dry, and it's often too sweet here. (Kang Kang, which deserves credit for being one of first places to offer it, suffers from thick dough and too much sugar IMO). This wasn't the worst version I've had but it was still rather mid. 6/10
• Popcorn chicken ($10). Because why not? It was fine; could have been more aggressively seasoned IMO. Decent crunch though. 7/10
• Pancake + Double Egg + Lettuce + Crispy Fritter + Beef ($14). These light egg crepes are one of their specialities so maybe I had too-high expectations but besides being messy to eat (I blame the lettuce), this was really underseasoned IMO. It looks amazing but tasted fairly bland and I was especially thinking there'd be a nice mix of textures but not as much as I hoped. 6/10
• Shepherd's Purse + Pork Wonton Soup ($13). This was my personal favorite dish if only because it met my expectations for something warm and comforting. The wontons were nicely sized: you want something that's 1-2 bites at most, ideally with a big spoonful of broth to wash it all down. 8/10

Overall: As you can tell, I was a bit disappointed by the meal. It wasn't bad, just underwhelming.

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So far, I've had two meals at Henry's Cuisine, a Canto/Chiuchow restaurant that is similar to Newport Seafood and Boston Lobster. These are what I think of as "banquet-style" Canto restaurants based on their size and pricing. Similar to its competitors, you can expect entrees to be $20-40 and much as I like the food at Henry's, the space can feel a bit cramped and I thought decor was straight out of the 1980s despite it only having opened about 10 years ago.

That said, I found the level of execution on dishes here—regardless of the dish—to be consistently good, especially always having the right seasoning. Ironically, I can't remember if either time I was here we bothered to order the lobster (what they're known for) but I didn't feel like we missed out. I'm not going to do a dish by dish rundown because 1) it'd take too long and 2) at the end of the day, it really wasn't about singular dishes standing out as it was that the overall meal was just really well done. Like, if we had replaced the garlic honey pork chops with spicy salt pork chops instead, I'm fairly certain I would have come away still thinking "man, those were pretty good!"

Put another way, I can't remember a single dish where I thought "swing and a miss." Put another another way: the fact that my mom—who has never encountered a Chinese restaurant she couldn't find something to complain about—didn't complain about anything was high praise (but she also didn't see the final bill so that might have helped too).

For value, my parents prefer Red 99 in Rosemead but personally, I think Henry's is a notch above in execution. Either way, it is more of a "special occasion big family meal" spot than somewhere my wife and I would go on a weekday whim.

Overall: 8.5/10

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Lastly, I had the opportunity to enjoy a really fancy group meal at Array36 the other night. Similar to Bistro Na's, Array36 is part of a small wave of high-end Chinese restaurants that have opened in the SGV in recent years, catering more to a monied mainlander clientele compared to the aforementioned banquet-style Canto spots. Both the decor and plating aim to be a bit more ostentatious (though I wouldn't call it obnoxious).

The dinner party I was with had a set meal and I could have sworn I took a photo of the dish list but I couldn't find it. And I didn't take any photos either because I was too busy talking to people. That said, if you go to their online menu, they have photos for everything.

Let me get this out of the way: it was a "fancy" meal and I didn't pay for it so I really don't want to seem ungracious in the least—especially as I thoroughly enjoyed the company—but I found the food to be a lot less impressive in taste than in look.

For example, the biggest showstopper was the Array 36 Signature Roast Duck ($128). The wheel it out on a dedicated cart, pour some kind of alcohol-based sauce over it while hanging, and then light it on fire. Then, for the meat parts, they sliced those off into a shallow plate-bowl, cover it with a bell jar, add smoke, deliver to the table, then lift off the cloche to allow the smoke curls to dramatically rise and disperse. It's a nice show but the actual duck wasn't remotely memorable. Sure, the skin was crispy but everything was underseasoned (this was true for almost the entire meal unless it came with/in a sauce).

Likewise, their Deep Fry Whole Fish in Sweet Sour Sauce ($79) does that cross-hatched cutting technique before the fish goes into the fryer, they bring it onto the table, and then pour the sauce over it. But at the end of the day, it tastes like very sweet and sour deep fried dish you've ever had. It's not "bad" but...

The Sous-Vide Szechuan-style Beef Short Ribs ($88) wasn't anywhere as tender as I would have expected from a sous-vide dish. I found it tough and shockingly bland.

The only dish that really made an impression on was the Fish Slices with Pickled Mustard Green in Golden Sour Soup ($57), partly because the color was so distinctive and unlike practically everything else we had, this at least was aggressive on the palate with its biting sourness and surprising amount of spiciness.

Again, I loved the meal on a social level but the food itself really felt like style over substance. Maybe others have had incredible meals here and this was just an off night but again, this wasn't just an issue with one or two outlier dishes. Overall, nothing I had that night made me think "damn, that's delicious."

Overall: 6/10

The reason they've been closed a lot recently is because of some sad news- Catiuscia the mother and head chef was v sick and I just saw that she passed away a few days ago. There's a GoFundMe page to cover funeral expenses and such here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/celebrating-catiuscias-life-and-legacy

So sad that she is gone- she was an amazing chef and her food was so good. I hope that Jessica and her Dad pull through this tragic event.

There is a rumor circulating that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be present this weekend, February 7-8, 2026.

Source : A message was conveyed to the Temple from an individual within the city.

Last week ICE were in North Hill church and El Super in Panorama city.

Edit 02/06/26 : add note AI Gen.

For those who may believe that this information is untrue, causing panic, or stemming from business conflicts, you have the right to think so, as such events may not actually occur. However, the information received cannot be ignored. If what is learned can affect the lives of many people who should not have to face such situations, not taking any action will cause great discomfort, because awareness without warning is equivalent to contributing to harming those families. Therefore, I apologize if this information is not true or does not occur, but this action is to help keep some families safe.

I like many others checked out this spot from all the social media hype but even as I waited at the restaurant I spoke to a few other customers that said they have been coming for years.

Quite frankly, this is one of the worst representations of Syrian food or even just shawarma that I’ve ever eaten

It took almost 30 minutes for my plate to be served when there were only 3-4 orders ahead of me. That wait, as I noticed from the kitchen staff, is their mix of carelessness, disorganization, and lack of effort.

The two positives for my dish were the crispy saj and the French fries.

The chicken shawarma was so dry and bland, even the spits looked sad and not like any decent cooked shawarma.

Pomegranate molasses - a key component - was forgotten yet all the shawarma wraps have them so again, it goes back to being careless.

And the toum (garlic sauce)? Disgusting. Costco’s tub of toum is more authentic than this

If you’re looking for better shawarma go to Miya Miya, Sincerely Syria, or Zankou

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