Newsletter: The best thing our restaurant critic ate this summer

In this week's Tasting Notes newsletter, critic Patricia Escárcega writes about her favorite restaurant meal of the summer.
Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • September 14, 2019
Next week, Sept. 23 to be exact, marks the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. All summer long my fellow critic, Bill Addison, has been telling us where to find the best pizza in Los Angeles; exploring the cultural subtext of kebab-centric...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

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