Bill Addison
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- Oct 1, 2026
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20 of our favorite sundaes and banana splits in L.A. (opens the original)
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What is a sundae? Ice cream, of course, but what else? As the Food team compiled our favorite decked-out frozen desserts around the city, we couldn’t seem to reach a consensus. It should have syrup or sauce, fruit and some sort of crunchy topping, I declared with unearned authority. Deputy Food editor Betty Hallock pointed out the iconic McDonald’s sundae with just vanilla soft serve and rich chocolate fudge. Another colleague mentioned layered parfaits while others hailed the banana split as a
How the fruit-bursting desserts of an American pastry genius have evolved over 20 years (opens the original)
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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred I had an odd realization recently. In the gone-in-a-blink, two-plus decades I’ve been reviewing restaurants, across four cities and for a while the whole country, there is exactly one chef whose food I’ve been in the proximity to write about consistently over the last 20 years: Shannon Swindle, the pastry maestro at Funke in Beverly Hills and Felix in Venice. This dawned on me recently at Funke, peering at Swindle’s latest variat
Review: Why this hidden gem is the new crown jewel of L.A. fine dining (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The blocky, three-story building at 9575 West Pico Blvd., plastered with an ornate Second Empire facade, looks out of place and out of time. By Los Angeles standards it has stood for an eternity, housing long-gone institutions like Osteria Romana Orsini beginning in the 1960s. Its basement level, though, has a modern history all its own, where a
Review: It's L.A.'s hottest bar. And a leap forward for drinking culture (opens the original)
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred From the week Vandell opened in early December, crowds have gathered outside its forest-green door and down its patch of Los Feliz sidewalk, waiting to join the civilized chaos inside. Is it the hottest bar in Los Angeles in 2026? Easily, and for excellent reasons. Vandell’s wood-paneled space — an anchor 30-foot bar and three small rooms, each
A ramen master (who also happened to invent the Ramen Burger) reappears in Irvine (opens the original)
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See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred I meandered between the buildings of Sky Park Business Center in Irvine, wondering if I was misunderstanding the address given for Shimamoto Noodle. I called the listed number. “Do you want to eat here?” Keizo Shimamoto asked after answering. “Just place your order from the site and sit at one of the tables in front of Smart Kitchens,” he said, referring to the multi-concept restaurant space where I now saw customers drifting in
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