The Pantry

restaurant. The menu is full of crowd-pleasing Korean comfort foods, including kalbi, fried chicken, and a rotating selection of banchan. There’s also an array of pantry items on offer, from roasted bamboo salt to perilla oil. 317 S. Broadway, downtown

From Korean comfort classics at Grand Central Market to a natural wine bar in WeHo, here are some new spots to check out this month. Shiku This Grand Central Market newcomer is from the same team behind Baroo, the beloved, fermentation-focused

domain of chef Jesse Barber, who ran the kitchen at the nearby Venice restaurant Barnyard and cooked at the Tasting Kitchen before that — two vaguely Northern Italian restaurants where the food can seem like a random stroll through a pantry until you

If you were going to design a restaurant representing the new Venice Beach, the one where postmodern mansions crowd next to crumbling apartment blocks, and the narrow alleys sometimes resemble the streets near the Rialto, you might well come up with

Many Los Angeles restaurants have reinvented themselves as one-stop markets for prepared food, fresh produce, pantry staples and household items during the coronavirus shutdown. Menus, hours of operation and other details are subject to change, so

, select butcher cuts, dairy items, pantry staples, and wine and beer. The restaurant, which is offering takeout and delivery through various apps, encourages customers to subscribe to a marketplace newsletter with daily updates about what’s for sale. 6600

with locations in Irvine and Newport Beach. Their takeout and delivery menu features a pantry section that includes four of their housemade pasta sauces: San Marzano tomato sauce (basic marinara), bolognese (the classic meat sauce), amatriciana (tomato

First the toilet paper vanished. Next it was everything in the soup and pasta aisles, including all the jarred marinara sauces and every shape of noodle except angel hair. Apparently, people don’t like angel hair, even when it’s literally the only

selling a selection of banchan, including kimchi, mu namul, chili chamchi and shredded potato and fish cakes as well as pantry items such as gochujang and seasoned soy sauce. On Friday, the full menu of doshirak and family meals will be available for

Shiku at Grand Central Market Anyone lucky enough to try Kwang Uh’s creamy pink noorook at Baroo, the much-lauded, profoundly innovative Korean restaurant he opened in a Hollywood strip mall in 2015, will be relieved to know the chef is back. After

, Los Angeles Times I moved to Little Tokyo in 2005, and there weren’t many great places to eat. Downtown back then was known for the Original Pantry Cafe, Philippe’s and the Mexican markets along Olvera Street. Lazy Ox [by Josef Centeno, Hallock’s

It has been a radical decade in dining for Los Angeles — a time when once-quiet neighborhoods became restaurant destinations, when voices at every tier of the industry diversified, when culinary spaces decentralized, when a sense of ownership and

roasting vegetables. With pantry staples still in short supply at some grocery stores, Ben offers baking projects that require no all-purpose flour or yeast. — How are smaller restaurants coping with the COVID-19 pandemic? Garrett Snyder reports on a South

Today I received an automated email canceling a dinner reservation I made two weeks ago, before Los Angeles’ dining rooms went dark. The email felt like a postcard from a parallel dimension, one where dining rooms are open and the future of L.A

Here’s the blunt truth: Truly great Thai food in Orange County doesn’t exist in every neighborhood, so you might have to get in the car and drive. But don’t worry. It’ll be worth it when you bring home a green curry so spicy it makes the top of your

head tingle. Or when you taste the technicolor vibrancy of the perfect bowl of woon sen. Or when you reach for a cup of cooling Thai iced tea to calm the warming vibrations of world-class tom yum with freshwater prawns the size of koi. While these

the frozen drink machine inside the restaurant. While stuck at home more than usual for the past few months, I obsessed about this drink. I almost bought a frozen drink machine like Vaca’s but decided my pantry was too small for that. I then realized I

It’s no secret that I love the Vaca tonic at Vaca in Costa Mesa. This frozen gin and tonic is one of the most refreshing cocktails in Orange County. And since the beginning of the pandemic, they’ve been selling that drink to-go, which is brilliant

served straight from the frozen drink machine inside the restaurant. So I have been obsessing about this drink. I almost bought a frozen drink machine like Vaca’s but decided my pantry was too small for that. AdChoices ADVERTISING Ads by Teads Then I

I am crazy about the Vaca tonic at Vaca, a Spanish tapas spot in Costa Mesa. This frozen gin and tonic is one of the most refreshing cocktails in Southern California. And since the beginning of the pandemic, they’ve been selling that drink to-go