Food & Drink
The Heatmap has existed for nearly two decades to answer the age-old question: “What’s new and notable in Los Angeles?” Though the local dining scene has endured tremendous challenges over the past few years, the city’s spirit of breaking ground and exploring new cuisines continues with every month of openings.
The kit included a small bottle of Clamato, a foam cup already rimmed with chamoy paste and a dusting of TajĂn, a tamarindo straw and some sweet and spicy Mexican candies for good measure—all nestled comfortably within a reusable, Dodger Stadium–approved, clear plastic shoulder bag.
19, Don Antonio in Hell’s Kitchen was ranked 30th and L’Industrie of Brooklyn — awarded as the best slice in the US last June by the organization — took the 80th slot.
The vision is finally coming to fruition on September 18, 2024, when Companion opens its doors serving coffee, sandwiches, and pastries by day and an Italian-influenced menu from chef Jack Goode (formerly of Quarter Sheets, Bab’s, Jac’s on Bond) at night.
“This one is key: Consistent exercise has been shown to significantly reduce your chance of developing dementia, and what we’ve learned is that it doesn’t need to be some huge marathon training or CrossFit workout,” Goodman said.
Mr. T Cafe is in partnership with one of the world’s most accomplished French pastry chefs, Francois Daubinet, whose resume includes Paris’s Hôtel de Crillon, three-Michelin-starred Plaza Athénee, two-Michelin-starred Le Taillevent, and famed patisserie Fauchon.
The menu is best characterized as Vietnamese Californian with shrimp and pork spring rolls, spicy chile okra, shaking beef, and a flavorful caramelized butternut squash with pepitas, pineapple sauce, and herbs.
“It’s become a cool little community,” Portnoy, 47, told The Post of the event, which will feature slices from 35 pizzerias in the tri-state area — including Prince Street in Nolita, Brooklyn’s legendary’s Di Fara and New Haven’s Frank Pepe — all of which he has personally tasted for his popular One Bite pizza reviews.
“Opening on the corner of Sunset and Highland, across the street from Hollywood High School, adjacent to a Chick-fil-A, a couple 100 yards from an In-N-Out, [and inside] a former McDonald’s building is about as emblematic as you can get of our aspiration to be the future of quick-service restaurants,” Hooper told Eater in 2023.
These days, current proprietor Ernie Rossi’s presence at the feast outside his Little Italy storefront is known for an array of custom and novelty shirts which has lately caught itself in the midst of a fashion trend (including the eminent Daddy’s Little Meatball apparel).
At Sylva, Branson and Wareing have developed a process to not only extract the full flavour profile of traditional barrel wood and grain varieties, but explore the use of trees from all over the world.
Then-LA Weekly restaurant critic Jonathan Gold dubbed Son of a Gun “a kick-ass Florida fish house” and called the “smoked steelhead roe with dots of maple-flavored cream and razor-thin shards of pumpernickel toast” his favorite dish.