A Visit to Echo Park’s Newest Cocktail Bar Might Remind You to Call Your Grandmother

Across the country, an untold number of bartenders, servers, and other service industry workers have already been laid off or had hours dramatically cut due to the pandemic. Some small businesses are trying to keep workers paid for as long as...

If you were a restaurant guy tasked with opening a chill but on-trend restaurant in the city of Santa Monica at the moment, you might come up with something that looks a lot like Cadet. The exposed brick goes without saying, and the big grill for...

We were just a block from Disneyland, about to enter a squat-looking building on Katella Avenue out of a Van de Kamp's bakery ad campaign. This was the Dutch Club AVIO, the only such social club for Dutch-Indonesians in Southern California—and...

The hosts running the waitlist at Pappy & Harriet’s restaurant in Pioneertown have nerves of steel. On a recent Saturday night, the line to add your name spilled out of the entry room, through the bar and into the main dining room. It seemed as if...

Fifty years is a long time to have a bad reputation. That’s almost how long Silver Lake’s El Cid — the Spanish restaurant known for its flamenco dinner theater — has been open. It’s also about how long Angelenos have raved about the show while...