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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.