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After two years, recognition from the Michelin Guide and a glowing review from the Los Angeles Times, modern Korean restaurant Kinn will close this week, with its chef-owner emphasizing the importance of mental health in the restaurant industry. “I think our products are often undervalued, we have to compromise,” said Kiyong “Ki” Kim, who announced…

One of my favorite early memories of Rome is a food and wine festival hosted by the kosher catering company Le Bon Ton. Members of the city's Jewish community showed up in droves, dressed to the nines and ready to toast each other and then enjoy a second or third meal at the bountiful food…

Nesrin had been pounding garlic all morning, but the blunt thump of the pestle grew louder when she started talking about Syria. From 2010 to 2014 she marched in the revolution there. “Everyone conspired to kill the civil rights movement,” she said. Nesrin (who asked that her last name not be used to protect her…

Cognitive dissonance, SoCal style: The calendar says it's November, but heaven swears it's April, maybe even July. It is Thanksgiving. And for more than a hundred years, pilgrims from the East and Midwest to this Pacific coast have sometimes been a little perplexed about how to implement a vacation that was built around the original…

Café Tropical, a staple in the Silver Lake community for nearly 50 years and serving traditional Cuban cafecitos and pasteles, is closing. News of the closure was confirmed by a handwritten note posted on one of the cafe's windows. The note read: “Attention Cafe Tropical customers, we will be permanently closing our doors this week.”…

Anthony Bourdain didn't mince his words when it came to Henry Kissinger. “Henry Kissinger walks into a bar. “Would you hate it if I went over and punched Henry Kissinger in the face?” Bourdain once asked guests appearing on an episode of his show, “Parts unknown” TV program. The late chef's scathing comments about the…

I'm standing outside a Din Tai Fung in a Taipei mall, watching a team of seven masked chefs in stiff white coats behind a glass panel – kneading, filling, weighing, dusting and folding under fluorescent lights. Kan Kuang-Ming, chef at Din Tai Fung Taiwan, stands in the middle, head bowed and shoulders hunched, crumbling dumplings.…

Song-tae Kim and 17 of his church friends chatted loudly, some fueled by soju, as the leftovers from their dinner – black bean noodles and spicy seafood noodle soup – were spread out in front of them. For dessert, they passed around Korean pear slices that they had brought from home. This was the group's…

Nearly two months after Cafe Tropical closed its doors in Silver Lake, former employees who worked there say they are still missing hundreds or thousands of dollars in final paychecks that were never received. The nearly 50-year-old Sunset Boulevard restaurant suddenly closed in late November as the company that owned the Cuban cafe was hit…

Five suspects, including a juvenile, were arrested and charged in connection with the murder in January. 2 search of Ruben's Bakery & Mexican Food, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said at a news conference Tuesday. Luna said the youth, about 13 years old, was the suspected driver of the white Kia Soul that crashed…