All Cities: Chef Feature

Interviews   Los Angeles

Carlos Salgado Sees the Future For Taco María, And It Will Be More Focused

When the Michelin guide returned to Southern California in 2019, Taco María was the only Mexican restaurant to receive a Michelin…

By Esther Tseng November 11, 2021

Interviews   Los Angeles

Govind Armstrong Has Seen It All, and Now He’s Paying It Forward

Imagine what you were doing after school at age 13. Chances are good it wasn’t peeling carrots at Wolfgang Puck’s…

By Lesley Balla May 21, 2021

Interviews   Los Angeles

The Owners of Crudo e Nudo Believe Now Is the Time to Transform Restaurants

If there’s one thing the pandemic has afforded some people, it’s a chance to start over, reinvent themselves or their…

By Lesley Balla April 28, 2021

Dish By Dish   Los Angeles

Jon Yao’s Taiwan-Inspired Cooking at Kato, As Seen Through Five Dishes

When Kato opened in West Los Angeles in 2016, Taiwanese food had just begun to creep westward from the San…

By Esther Tseng April 19, 2021

Resy Features   Los Angeles

Enrique Olvera on Opening Damian During a Pandemic, L.A.’s Many Cuisines, and More

Even in a region filled with thousands of restaurants, loncheros, taquerias, and other small family-run food businesses featuring myriad regional…

By Lesley Balla December 11, 2020

Resy Features   Charleston

FIG Chef Mike Lata On Hospitality

In 2003, Chef Mike Lata and co-owner Adam Nemirow opened the now-iconic FIG. “What we stand for goes back to the…

By Vanessa Wolf April 12, 2018

Resy Features   Austin

Where Theres Smoke, There’s Izakaya and Texas Whiskey

Japanese and Texan cuisines combine at hot Austin smokehouse/izakaya, Kemuri Tatsu-Ya.

By Paula Forbes April 12, 2018