Bill Addison

1 week ago | latimes.com | Bill Addison |Jenn Harris

Los Angeles is a melting pot of cultures, and nowhere is that more evident than within our local restaurant industry. Immigrants founded some of the city’s longest-running and most influential restaurants, including a bustling Vietnamese storefront in a San Gabriel strip mall, a legendary Nikkei spot that spawned a global restaurant empire and neighborhood taquerias where customers line up for the same signature item.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Bill Addison

A truth of journalism: You conceive a long-term project and you set a publish date months in advance. You can’t possibly predict what will be happening in the world on the day a project is scheduled to go live. The 101 Best Restaurants in CaliforniaThis week, The Times published its first-ever guide to the 101 Best Restaurants in California, an undertaking that builds on our annual 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles tentpole and for which I traveled statewide for much of the past year.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Bill Addison

Taquerias, dim sum parlors, sushi counters, noodle shops, kebab stands, strip malls filled with businesses serving 12 different Vietnamese specialties: Immigrant excellence powers every single restaurant on the L.A. Times’ first ever 101 best restaurants in California guide. Without exception. Even in the white-owned places serving Euro-centric dishes, who is doing the cooking or delivering the plates to the table? I see the greatness of immigrant contributions to our dining culture everywhere.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Bill Addison

Los Angeles can feel like a microcosm of the whole world, particularly when it comes to dining. At some point, though, the road will call. Maybe it’s a two-hour drive into the desert, or a short flight to the Bay Area, or a quiet coastal stretch where the marine layer doesn’t burn off until early afternoon. There are reasons to go — and eat — everywhere in California.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Bill Addison

Los Angeles can feel like a microcosm of the whole world, particularly when it comes to dining. At some point, though, the road will call. Maybe it’s a two-hour drive into the desert, or a short flight to the Bay Area, or a quiet coastal stretch where the marine layer doesn’t burn off until early afternoon. There are reasons to go — and eat — everywhere in California.