Compared to the rest of Vint’s offerings, the restaurant’s sole burger seems adventurous, topped with a handful of greens, a fried egg and Harissa, a North African chili paste. The burger’s divergence from the usual ingredients pays off because it’s actually one of the best around—the egg squeezes out just the right amount of yolk, [...]

At its core, Tracht’s is a steakhouse—and it shows. The restaurant offers seven different cuts of beef and five different sauces—you can concoct all sorts of pairings and have a great dish. Not surprisingly, another of Tracht’s signature dishes is the pot roast, a sizable hunk of beef slow-cooked until it nearly falls apart under [...]

The entrees, whether you visit at breakfast (look for the tofu scramble, chicken apple sausage scramble, and broiled French toast stuffed with Mascarpone and créme fraiche); lunch (try the ruby red smoked wild salmon sandwich or hand-carved turkey sandwich served with mouth-coating herbed cream cheese and cranberry sauce); or dinner (the moist, fall-off-the-bone coq au [...]

On the third floor of a Long Beach Airport hangar, Ristorante DaVinci is a sumptuous place, with its 20-foot-high curved glass wall beyond which private jets touch down on the runways. It’s decadent from the beginning, but the “cartoccio” is the way to go, a dish of prawns, scallops, mussels, clams and calamari, brought to [...]

The best way to get your fill at Delius is with the lamb shank, a huge hunk of meat about the size of a bulked-up bicep. The shank is dressed simply, but cooked perfectly—so tender you can practically strip the entire thing with a single scrape. There’s also your choice of mushroom orzo pasta or [...]