A FULL SPREAD: the waffle, melty sandwiches, soup and meatloaf at Max & Helen's. Nancy Silverton, Phil Rosenthal, Lily Rosenthal Royal and Mason Royal in front of their Larchmont diner, below left. The waffle, made with yeasted batter, gets a generous... See more
LIKE MOST VISITORS, I head to Palm Springs, with its average of 350 days of sunshine, to retreat from life's stresses — to watch the colors of the San Jacinto Mountains shift from morning to evening, to sip dry martinis in the tradition of the city's Ho... See more
ATSAQARTVELO IN VAN NUYS, baker Nini Qutidze stands in view behind the tiny restaurant’s ordering counter, forming dough into seven versions of made-to-order Georgian breads. Watching her calm pace — cutting, rolling, sprinkling and layering various s... See more
(Photographs by RON DE ANGELIS For The Times) COLLECTIVELY, WE HAVE spent several decades in the grand Cantonese palaces of the San Gabriel Valley in search of the precision that nudges dumplings from fine to sublime and the attention to ingredients that ... See more
FRIED chicken and papaya salad, left, at Miya Thai, where the dining room, below, is lined with '80s-era nostalgia. Stand looking out from the wide intersection of East Mariposa Street and Lake Avenue for one potent, representative view of Altadena a year... See more
