Newsletter: Coming Soon: L.A.’s 101 best restaurants. We ranked them.

In this week's Tasting Notes newsletter, Bill Addison previews the upcoming 101 Best Restaurants list.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • October 5, 2019
For the last month, Patricia Escárcega and I have done little else beyond write, fret over, debate, cross-check, analyze, tweak and keep writing The Times’ annual list of the 101 Best Restaurants. We’ve been researching and thinking about the...
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