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Baekjeong, the famous Korean BBQ restaurant, is back in Koreatown, Los Angeles! Featuring high-grade meats, a lively atmosphere, dry-aged program and historical Korean design.
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Real Charmer, a new Los Angeles cocktail bar, quickly became a local hotspot. Featuring creative drinks and a unique vibe, it offers a neighborhood gathering place and contributes to LA's cocktail culture.
Chagee, a popular tea house chain from China, is opening its first US location in Los Angeles at Westfield Century City. Known for fresh-brewed and milk teas, the store offers a variety of tea lattes and brewed teas.
Given her talent and fame, plus a solid team of chef de cuisine Nick Russo, restaurateur Miranda, former Gwen assistant general manager Diana Lee as the GM, and bartender Kevin Nguyen consulting on cocktails, the recipe looks good.
Amid the charred vegetables (get the peas and broccolini), blistered paper-thin pizzas, and mains like roasted chicken with kale and harissa is something truly refreshing: Thai snapper crudo made in the style of an aguachile, tucked at the top of the menu laundry list.
The nearly 30-year-old traditional wooden chairs and tables are enough of a reason to visit this dimly-lit strip mall space.Though crowds show up mainly for the superior bossam, a Korean specialty featuring pork belly slices and accompaniments, it’s worth trying basically everything on the menu, including the hulking seafood pajeon and kimchi stew in a stone pot.
Pho Hue Oi’s bánh bèo aren’t available yet, but once the restaurants adds them to the menu, the delectable little rice and tapioca flour-filled cups topped with fried shrimp and drizzled with fish sauce will make for a a terrific appetizer.
Traditionally, Los Angeles’s members-only club scene has conjured images of tuxedoed men and well-heeled women sipping stiff cocktails while Hollywood power brokers flit in the background, disappearing into velvet- or wood-lined rooms.
Alongside Hong and Turner, the other “cheftestants” will include Anya El-Watter (Birch and Rye), César Murillo (North Pond), Shuai Wang (Jackrabbit Filly and King BBQ), Mimi Weissenborn (Sur Lie), and more.
Once firmly into the main courses, Kim and the crew feature a steamed sea perch with scarlet prawn, dry-aged dairy cow with roasted sesame, creamy perilla noodles topped with shaved winter truffles, and charcoal-grilled lobster tail with doenjang sauce and raspberry powder.
I’ve recapped this in full for Time Out, but personally, I’m most excited for Bryant Ng and Kim Luu-Ng’s Jade Rabbit in Santa Monica.
Lien Ta is incredibly resilient, and my visits to her colorful Silver Lake corner were consistently memorable, but All Day Baby ultimately couldn’t survive mercurial market forces and the heartbreaking loss of her co-founder, chef Jonathan Whitener.
Fettuccine prepared tableside in a Parmesan cheese wheel, bone marrow risotto, and tagliolini with preserved Meyer lemons, scampi crudo tartare, and caviar round out the pasta selections.
