New L.A. women's restaurant group shows support with festival

RE:Her, a new L.A. organization, aims to help female-owned restaurants with a 10-day festival in January and a planned cash grant program. The festival will feature collaborations such as hot chicken tacos with Hotville's Kim Prince and Socalo's Mary Sue Milliken.

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • December 22, 2020

“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...

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The ultimate fried-chicken crawl in L.A. Here's where to go

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • July 25, 2022

You may have seen El Gallo cruising the streets of Santa Monica. He’s a canary yellow 1973 Oldsmobile 98, with a rooster head bolted to the roof of the car and a curved feathery tail attached to the trunk. His deep red, wavy cockscomb adds an...

64 bottles of tequila, Halloween costumes and maybe a ghost at El Coyote

Noelle Carter • Los Angeles Times • October 28, 2016

Sixty-four bottles of tequila. Forty bottles of triple sec. Sixty-four bottles of lemon juice. A vat of pineapple juice adds sweetness and multiple pitchers of Sprite lend just the right amount of fizz. El Coyote employee Angel Martinez stands...

L.A. restaurants can reopen, but most will remain closed

Andrea Chang, Jenn Harris, Peter Meehan • Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2020

After more than 10 weeks, restaurants in Los Angeles County were abruptly greenlit to restart dine-in service on Friday. But many owners and chefs say it’s just too soon to throw open their doors. They cite substantial challenges to getting fully...

L.A. restaurants in low-vaccine areas brace for new mandate hits

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • November 7, 2021

“Is this the beginning of the end?” Kim Prince asked during a recent phone call. “We have been in a period of pivot, pivot, pivot. I just want to fry chicken.” On Monday, Prince, who owns Hotville restaurant at the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw mall, and...

Hotville hot chicken is opening a location in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • December 2, 2019

Hotville, the hot chicken pop-up run by Kim Prince, will finally become a restaurant this month. She has partnered with Greg Dulan, owner of Dulan’s Soul Food and Catering in Hyde Park, to open Hotville at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall on Dec....