New Restaurants Have Continued to Open During the Pandemic—Some with Surprising Success

Few people came to symbolize the frustration, fear and anger of restaurant owners to the ban on outdoor dining than Angela Marsden, owner of Pineapple Hill Saloon & Grill in Sherman Oaks. When Los Angeles County imposed the rules in the wake of a...

Canter’s is the Dodger Stadium of delis. The enormous menu; the nearly 24-hour service; the Kibitz Room, home to generations of rock and rollers and late-night rabble-rousers—none of it has changed in years. And it’s not going to. At least not so...

Lorena Tomb has a problem. It might seem like the founder and CEO of a commercial real estate firm would be up to her ears in vacant properties to show prospective clients in the wake of the long COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, but the reality of the...

In late February 2020, several weeks before Mayor Eric Garcetti officially ordered Los Angeles to shut down on account of COVID-19, Ryan Wilson was already moving to ensure the survival of one of the city’s oldest and most beloved restaurants. The...

On a recent afternoon, in the corner of a red leather booth at the Serving Spoon in Inglewood, owners Angela and JC Johnson counted their blessings. “After all that’s happened, we realize we have zero control over everything,” Angela says. “We are...