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Recently I wrote about Tony Ruiz and Oscar, two restaurant workers in L.A. facing extreme economic insecurity after losing their jobs to the coronavirus shutdown. Because they are undocumented, Tony and Oscar have no access to unemployment...

Silver Lake favorite Alimento is back. Zach Pollack reopened his trattoria this week, with some of the restaurant’s most-loved dishes available for takeout and delivery. You can order up various salads, the chicken Milanese sandwich, or pastas...

Ordering food from local restaurants during the pandemic is a great way to help the economy and your community–but how you place your order can mean radically different things for a restaurant’s bottom line. Placing an order directly with the...

Feeling like you’ve sought a bit too much comfort in pasta in recent weeks? Perhaps it’s time for some sushi takeout. Handily, Sōgo Roll Bar, the excellent new hand roll bar in Hollywood, whose owners include some of the guys behind the acclaimed...

Sōgo Roll Bar    Sushi Note   

Before Jordan Kahn’s unearthly project Vespertine took up residence in the four-story building at 3599 Hayden Ave. in Culver City, architect Eric Owen Moss simply called his structure “Waffle.” No nickname could be more apt: Its form resembles...

Vespertine   

The build-out was complete. Staff had been hired and trained. The kitchen was stocked. The opening party was on the calendar. Everything was in place for Go Get Em Tiger to debut its Culver City café in late March—until Los Angeles Mayor Eric...

Go Get Em Tiger    Interstellar    Skinny Fish    Krispy Rice   

In an unexpected move, more than 20 Los Angeles restaurants, including Canter’s, Sichuan Impression and Sweetfin, have signed a petition opposing a City Council proposal to cap third-party delivery app fees. It’s a stance that’s in direct...

Plan ahead for your sweet treat needs. Supremely talented pastry chef Nicole Rucker is now offering her Fat + Flour goodies for curbside pickup from Grand Central Market (on the Hill Street Side) or at Dinosaur Coffee in Silver Lake. Last week was...

Wolfgang Puck is one of the most famous chefs in the world. Arguably the first celebrity chef, he built a culinary empire with a catering company and dozens of restaurants. In Los Angeles, the Austrian chef is known for helping to start a dining...

Around Easter, my social media feeds began marching out a steady parade of images featuring maamoul, the small filled pastries much loved in Lebanon, Syria and other swaths of the Levant. The algorithms know me too well. A lightly yeasted dough is...