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4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: October 11

4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: October 11

This menu is massive with house specials including birria de chivo, carne asada with grilled cactus, enchiladas, tortas, and of course, aguas frescas that vary every day.


LA Cocktail Veterans Inject New Life Into Downtown’s Longtime Spring Street Bar

LA Cocktail Veterans Inject New Life Into Downtown’s Longtime Spring Street Bar

After signing the lease in May, Vaughan-Ruiz and Richard fully gutted the room, refinished the original bar top, and then installed walnut columns and tabletops to emphasize the nearly 100-year-old building’s legacy.


Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: September 30

Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: September 30

Button Mash was absolutely slammed on my final visit to the beloved neighborhood spot days before its closure — packed to the rafters with rowdy Dodgers fans and “the Poltergeist FOMO crowd,” as owner Jordan Weiss jokingly called folks like me making a pilgrimage for chef Diego Argoti’s acclaimed chaotic cooking.


The Best Food Events and Pop-Ups to Check Out This Week in Los Angeles: September 20

The Best Food Events and Pop-Ups to Check Out This Week in Los Angeles: September 20

Walking Spanish, a modern Central American pop-up has begun a Sunday and Monday residency at Las Perlas in West Hollywood.


4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: September 20

4 Restaurants to Try This Weekend in Los Angeles: September 20

Tucked between a home goods store and Tex-Mex spot HomeState, the Thai restaurant’s sidewalk seating is perfectly secluded, shaded all day, and emanates charm.


An Eater’s Guide to Los Angeles

An Eater’s Guide to Los Angeles

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.


An Accomplished French Pastry Chef Is Now Baking World-Class Croissants in Los Angeles

An Accomplished French Pastry Chef Is Now Baking World-Class Croissants in Los Angeles

Mr. T Cafe is in partnership with one of the world’s most accomplished French pastry chefs, Francois Daubinet, whose resume includes Paris’s HĂŽtel de Crillon, three-Michelin-starred Plaza AthĂ©nee, two-Michelin-starred Le Taillevent, and famed patisserie Fauchon.


The 11 Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings in Los Angeles, Fall 2024

The 11 Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings in Los Angeles, Fall 2024

Cantonese food specialist Johnny Lee, who was previously chef-owner of Pearl River Deli in Chinatown, has partnered with Last Word Hospitality’s Holly Fox and Adam Weisblatt to open a Malaysian and Southeast Asian restaurant in Historic Filipinotown.


Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: September 3

Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: September 3

The namesake dish permeates all sections of the menu: served with golden grains of fried rice, submerged in soup or herbaceous green curry, studded with bright chiles and basil leaves, and nestled alongside jade noodles and sauces.


Fast-Food Chain Shake Shack Suddenly Closes Five Southern California Restaurants

Fast-Food Chain Shake Shack Suddenly Closes Five Southern California Restaurants

That strategy might’ve proved too ambitious, as the company announced the closure of five Los Angeles-area stores, including Culver City, Silver Lake, Koreatown, Bunker Hill, and Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park, reports Nation’s Restaurant News.


Melrose Hill’s Incoming Dining Star Serves an Ambitious Seafood Tasting Menu

Melrose Hill’s Incoming Dining Star Serves an Ambitious Seafood Tasting Menu

Baik worked for years in New York City in lauded fine dining institutions like Eleven Madison Park and Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare and apprenticed under Nozomu Abe of Sushi Noz before moving back to Los Angeles to help at Kobawoo.


A Modern Mexican Chef Opens One of LA’s Most Ambitious New Steakhouses

A Modern Mexican Chef Opens One of LA’s Most Ambitious New Steakhouses

For Ávila, who dodged health department enforcement as a street vendor, dealt with flat tires as a food truck operator, and was the unofficial plumber at Angry Egret Dinette, he’s elated that the Alta California cuisine he helped build is entering its next phase.