With the opening of Cosa Buona, the area around Echo Park's Sunset and Alvarado intersection is truly a culinary destination. There's the aforementioned upsc
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Botanica, the new restaurant in Silver Lake, is owned and operated by two women who were ? and still aspire to be ? food journalists. Heather Sperling and Emily Fiff
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As someone who covers the tear-stained, blood-soaked money pit that is the restaurant industry, I can say without hesitation that I want no part of this business ex
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You want to touch a scoby, right?? It's not a question I'm asked often, but on this particular morning, I'll be touching many scobys, or symbiotic cultures of bacter
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Daniele Uditi did not mean to move to Los Angeles. When the chef arrived in 2010, it was for a six-month consulting gig. Seven years later, he's still here, havi
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Silver Lake milepost Pazzo Gelato gets a new neighbor on Sept. 1 with We Have Noodles, an aptly named Asian street-food counter in the former Berlin Currywurst spac
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SteelCraft, a development in Long Beach made from repurposed and repainted shipping containers and filled mostly with food and drink vendors, is getting two sibl
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If you've ever tried to grab a Saturday afternoon meal at Gjusta, Travis Lett's Venice deli and restaurant, you'll know that it's entirely possible t
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The legendary San Pedro gathering place Papadakis Taverna closed in 2010 after a 37-year run that saw the scrappy little restaurant (it used to be a brothel!) turn i
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Speaking of pleasure, Champagne and fried chicken are two of life's deep pleasures: one profound, and the other simple. When you bring the two together your ple
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There's been panic in the streets ever since it was discovered that Canter's was temporarily closed recently due to a vermin infestation. It is a little unse
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Here in Los Angeles, we are blessed with a whole lot of chefs who take their eggs as seriously as their steak. Brunch in this town is fantastic, and always getting b
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