When it comes to food, “eclectic” is all the rage.

Still, there’s a limit. You don’t want to be fishing bits of seaweed out of your matzo-ball soup.

Luckily, some places get it right every time. When we heard that ...

For you, peanut butter isn’t just a spread. It’s an adventure. A vice, even.

Sure, in polite company you apply a nice, dainty layer to a Ritz cracker. But when no one’s looking, it’s a different story. It’s just you, ...

It’s September. You know what that means: vibrant leaves, a nip in the air, woolly sweaters …

Unless you live in L.A. Out here the only thing getting cooler is the restaurant scene.

Starting with Citrine. Taking over the old ...

Where were you the summer of your thirteenth year?

Getting misty at a Journey concert? Crank-calling your math teacher? Sniffing glue while piercing something?

Not Govind Armstrong. The renowned chef, now 34, was helping out Wolfgang Puck in the kitchen ...

The neighborhood restaurant: a concept that’s pretty much lost in this everything-is-twenty-minutes-from-everything culture.

You know, that place just around the corner. Where they know your name. And not because it’s Aniston.

The unpretentious new West Hollywood restaurant Hedley’s is about ...

Hotels are funny things.

They’re meant to be destinations for out-of-towners but just as often become havens for locals, too.

Take new hotel the Crescent in Beverly Hills. At first glance, an excellent, centrally located spot for visitors to hang ...

New bar, same story. You’ve heard it all before.

Same decor (sleek yet intimate!), same proprietors (or is that impresarios?), same crowd (one word: midriff).

Actually, no. Mountain Bar, Chinatown’s newest nightspot, is really, truly different. The first tip-off: ...