Review: At Joy in Highland Park, the name says it all

Vivian Ku's follow-up to her first restaurant, Pine & Crane in Silver Lake, delivers the same comforting spin on Taiwanese dishes in even more comfortable digs.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 14, 2019
Joy, a year-old Highland Park treasure, is at once remarkable and unremarkable. Remarkable in its Taiwanese menu’s immense appeal; balanced, like too few things are these days, in the scales of justice between virtue (this food feels very fresh...
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