Come and ravage us: Scenes from the fire sale at one of L.A.’s hottest restaurants

If you’re thinking about which hour to visit Silver Lake’s buzzing new morning-to-night restaurant All Day Baby, start by going for breakfast. Open the double-glass door and walk into a daydream of the American corner diner. A compact coffee...

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Here’s where to eat — and what to order — right now. Fried taro dumplings from Lotus Dim Sum Dumpling House I spent many Sundays growing up eating wu gok at dim sum parlors all over the San Gabriel Valley. The fried taro puffs may be the most...

Biscuit breakfast sandwiches aren’t new. McDonald’s has been making mornings brighter with mysteriously fluffy egg, cheese and sausage biscuit sandwiches since 1986. At All Day Baby, Jonathan Whitener and Lien Ta’s new daytime-only,...

“We all have capes on,” Kim Prince said . “I tell all these female restaurant owners, don’t tuck your capes in. Wear them out and let them fly.” The owner of Hotville Chicken at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall is part of a new all-female Los...

Ding ding. The tinny chime of a twice-tapped service bell — the analogue silver dome once used to summon hotel desk clerks — pierces the din of the packed 50-seat dining room as Drake’s “Fake Love” pounds from the speakers. Chef Jonathan Whitener,...