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Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: March 24

Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: March 24

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.


Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: February 3

Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: February 3

It’s packed with protein heavy-hitters: think jalapeño-pocked black beans, queso Oaxaca, and vegan chorizo or scrambled egg, if you want it, as well as mix-ins like a charred onion aioli, avocado-tomatillo salsa, and pico de gallo.


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.


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.