In case you have been eating out in Venice late final decade, you knew this place — within the thick of Abbot Kinney Boulevard’s luxury-cool retail density. MTN (pronounced “Mountain”) closed 5 years in the past and, with a number of pivotal modifications, has now returned as RVR (sure, pronounced “River”). Being at RVR doesn’t really feel like experiencing déjà vu a lot as streaming the shock new season of a present all of us thought had been canceled without end. Its second life seems to...

Mid East Eats — a preferred falafel pop-up turned non-public dinner service — is now open as a fast-casual vacation spot for homestyle Palestinian delicacies with an L.A. edge. It’s additionally the primary legally permitted dwelling kitchen in Watts. Sumer and Andrew Durkee’s almost 700-square-foot dwelling on Grape Road has a white banner stretched throughout the entrance gate, with blown-up images of pita wraps, rice bowls, tacos and nachos topped with falafel. Enter the entrance yard,...

It has been a brutal stretch for L.A. eating places. Since 2023, tons of of notable spots have shuttered amid escalating prices for meals and labor, and a weakening economic system. Extra just lately, the native scene has additionally been roiled by the January wildfires, which torched a number of eating places, brought about some to quickly shut and displaced staff. Then, this summer time, federal immigration enforcement raids led many undocumented staff to go away their posts over concern...

Not since Ori Menashe and Genevieve Gergis launched Angelenos to the lamb neck shawarma at Bavel, have I heard this a lot of a buzz round a single lamb dish. My Chinese language grandma is curious. My Orange County pals wish to know. Have you ever had the lamb at M Pleasure? Is it the lamb equal of Hainanese hen rice? There’s a single protein on the menu on the new M Pleasure restaurant in San Gabriel. In contrast to lots of the eating places working below the umbrella of Chinese...

Turning the nook on sixth and Predominant Streets, an hours-long line of potential clients has been ready to get a ultimate dip and drink at Cole’s French Dip. It’s been this manner since July 7, when proprietor Cedd Moses and his Pouring With Coronary heart firm introduced the upcoming closure of the historic restaurant and saloon. “It’s back to the old days temporarily, when we were packed all the time before the pandemic,” Moses stated Thursday. The final day of service for the...

William “Bill” Elwell, the humorous and infrequently ornery proprietor of a legendary burger shack within the San Fernando Valley, has died at 98, prompting an outpouring of admiration and recollections from burger aficionados and restaurateurs who have been impressed by him. Elwell, who based the Van Nuys burger stand Invoice’s Burgers in 1965 and labored there constantly for 60 years, died on July 21. Over the course of a long time he grew to become as a lot of a draw because the burgers...

Carlos Salgado wowed the world of Mexican meals the second he opened Taco María in 2013. His marriage of high-end with homestyle — sturgeon tacos, Flamin’ Sizzling chicharrones, handmade blue corn tortillas from kernels he imported from Mexico and milled himself — appeared higher suited to Los Angeles or Mexico Metropolis than a hipster meals corridor in Costa Mesa. The accolades got here rapidly: L.A Instances restaurant of the yr in 2018. 4 straight Michelin stars. One in every of...

A neighborhood startup is utilizing synthetic intelligence and robotics in an unlikely method: making sashimi and different fish dishes style higher, last more and extra humane. El Segundo-based Shinkei Methods needs to convey a standard Japanese technique of dealing with fish to tremendous eating in America, utilizing know-how to exchange the labor-intensive course of traditionally dealt with by practitioners on board ships. Buyers have simply wager thousands and thousands that it’s...

My most vivid meals reminiscences contain overcooked spaghetti in a picket bowl, and my grandmother Phyllis. For many years, my grandmother’s picket bowls sat stacked within the cupboard subsequent to the fridge in her previous, two-story house in Gardena. They adopted her to her retirement house in Palm Desert, which she lovingly known as “toe-tag city.” She was a part of the volunteer wellness-check committee that known as different residents to ensure they have been nonetheless...

Right here is the problem we set out for the cooks of a few of our favourite eating places: Provide you with a recipe that demonstrates chef expertise and creativity however remains to be easy sufficient for a mean dwelling prepare dinner to make. That’s not essentially simple for cooks with common entry to specialty substances, a crew of prep cooks and dishwashers to do the chopping and cleanup, plus years of coaching that allow them to deal with complicated kitchen duties with...

A Silver Lake poke vacation spot is again after 5 years away. Ohana Superette, the informal, daytime-only poke store from husband-and-wife staff Eric and Miriam Park, not too long ago returned with its personal area and considerate, conventional poke. “I always try to do my version but not mess with it too much,” chef and co-owner Eric Park mentioned, “and with the poke I just want to keep it super authentic.” Spam and shiso musubi are made recent every day at Ohana...

My canine Rufus’ wellness journey began with what I now take into account an oxymoron: wholesome kibble. Simply weeks after I adopted him, Rufus stayed the weekend along with his first babysitters, my buddy Jamie and her then-partner, a well-known nation singer. After I got here to retrieve my handful-sized little man, stated singer knowledgeable me that the so-called wholesome pet food I’d proudly left them with (the costliest one I might discover at a grocery retailer) listed corn and wheat...

Was it a restaurant opening or a automobile present? On Monday, Cybertrucks and Teslas filed into the car parking zone and lined across the block for the opening of the Tesla Diner: a two-story, retro-modern, steel-covered restaurant with two towering film screens for patrons to observe as they “supercharge” their automobiles. It marks the favored however controversial automobile firm’s first foray into the restaurant trade. Ought to it show profitable, Musk posted to his social media...

The Cortez household piled out of their automobile and stretched their legs. Lastly, after an hour and a half drive from their Lengthy Seaside dwelling, they’d made it to Little Tokyo — particularly, to One Piece Cafe. “I was just sitting in the car like, ‘I’m going to be at the One Piece Cafe,’” stated Cammy Cortez, who was launched to the favored manga and anime franchise by her older brother and now runs a “One Piece” fan account on X. “It’s going to be a good day.” Timed to the Los...

That is in all probability my mother’s favourite dish, and it was our favourite dish for her to make when my brother, my sister and I had been youngsters. She handed away 30 years in the past, in 1995, so it simply simply was calling to me. My mother was born in Lincoln Heights, however her dad is from Texas and my grandma was native, Concho Indian, so it’s very a lot not conventional, however sort of conventional in that Nineteen Sixties sort of cooking. After which that avocado sauce is...

The first draw at Tun Lahmajo, a restaurant in Burbank lined with grainy woods to resemble a summer time cabin, is correct there within the title. A mottled, golden-edged lahmajo lands on almost each desk — or possibly three or 4 of them, for each individual in a bunch. In Levantine Arabic, the dish is called lahm bi ajeen: actually, “meat with dough.” Armenians shortened the phrase and tailored the flatbread as their very own. Cooks at Tun Lahmajo stretch their floury palette almost as...