Coronavirus affects resources for restaurants, food workers

On Nov. 1, Ashley and Tyler Wells were deep in rural Northern California, driving south, about 10 hours outside of Los Angeles. They were returning from a camping trip in the wilderness. Although the cell service was spotty, a call from one of the...

Late last week, when I needed a fast lunch, I remembered I had a tin of mussels in pickled sauce on hand. I’d picked them up while buying wine at Tilda, the new Echo Park bar that has shifted to retail during the shutdown. (My visit became part of...

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...

My first restaurant review of the year was about Bebot Filipino Soul Food, the sunny counter-service café that opened at the edge of Long Beach’s 4th Street Corridor about six months ago. Bebot is also where I had my first restaurant meal of 2020,...

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...