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When Kinn’s chef and co-owner Kiyong “Ki” Kim took a several-week trip to his native South Korea earlier this year, he reconnected with his roots partly by hunting for ingredients. He shopped at Seoul markets for foraged produce such as…

Topanga Social More than 25 L.A. restaurants, bars and gourmet retailers are now open under one roof, bringing together sushi, barbecue, Hawaiian shrimp, truffles, iconic hot dogs, Detroit-style pizza, boba, cocktails and dumplings in…

In the early days of Southern California’s hardcore punk explosion, John Albert went to Arizona with his friends in the Orange County band the Adolescents. Being a roadie in those days meant riding in the back of the truck with the amps…

In the days before Los Angeles’ “mansion tax” took effect, the luxury market moved at hyperspeed.Prices were slashed, escrows were rushed and million-dollar deals were closed as panicked sellers offered exotic cars and lucrative bonuses to…

Yess Restaurant The highly anticipated Japanese restaurant from the team that brought a colorful line-caught-seafood truck to the Arts District is now open. Yess Restaurant is the fully realized follow-up to the ambitious and…

Liwei Liao, owner of the Joint fish market in Sherman Oaks, has a motto: “Fresh is boring.” Coral-red snappers from Japan hang upside down in the rows of refrigerators, mouths agape and eyes bright and glassy, as if they‘ve just…

TOKYO —  At a tiny sushi counter in this boundless capital’s southwest suburbs, nine of us sat silent and alert waiting for Koji Kimura to finish readying his lunchtime service.We whispered our drink orders to the restaurant’s lone server…

The matchbook flashed like a sunset, its gilt cover catching the light. The promise of candlelight — or maybe a cigarette — was entirely in keeping with the glamorous haunt whose name it bore.It was a relic from Kawafuku, the…

SOUTH DOS PALOS, Calif. —  Robin Koda navigated the levees of her family’s rice farm with the grace of someone who has been moving among water, soil and grass her whole life.She wore jean overalls and a wide-brimmed woven hat that offered…

It was the meal that changed how Angelenos eat.And it happened more than 5,000 miles from Los Angeles.When Noritoshi Kanai and Harry Wolff Jr. sat down for dinner in Tokyo one night in 1965, they had no way of knowing they were about to…