Review: Ari Taymor's Alma, temporarily reborn at the Standard Hollywood, is better than ever

Jonathan Gold reviews: Chef Ari Taymor's acclaimed Alma, which closed downtown, has a hotel residency and is less fussy, more fun.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 29, 2016
The restaurant at the Standard is slamming, an ocean of untucked shirts and minidresses crammed into a barely reconstructed diner, sparklers jammed into cakes, frothing bottles of Champagne. A “whoomp whoomp” from a DJ somewhere in the hotel cuts...
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