Considered by some to be one of the best chefs cooking in 2016, owner Shawn Pham says that the tough decision to close didn’t come lightly. He sends along the following note: With much sadness we are ...

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DTLA - David Myers, chef-owner of the esteemed West Hollywood restaurant Sona, used to give his cooks a big task: brainstorming dishes for the multi-course tasting menu, a responsibility most chefs ...

If you’ve been to Tokyo, you know that finding a restaurant can be even harder than wrangling a reservation to one, even if you have an exact street address, even if you’re with a friend who knows the ...

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Little Tokyo’s got another promising restaurant with the arrival last month of Simbal. Young chef/owner Shawn Pham has crafted a hip enclave in the middle of Japanese Village Plaza, and the menu is ...

This week our favorite Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold makes his way to Simbal, a Vietnamese izakaya discreetly tucked along the San Pedro Street side of the Little Tokyo Mall in ...