Newsletter: Countdown to the 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles

Critic Patricia Escárcega looks back on her relationship with the 101 list.
Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • December 7, 2019
Four years ago, my husband and I road-tripped to L.A. from Arizona for a long weekend planned around the 2014 edition of Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants. Our aim was to visit as many Gold-approved restaurants as we could squeeze into our...
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