Review: At Ledlow, Josef Centeno is serious about American cuisine

Josef Centeno turns downtown L.A.'s Pete's into Ledlow, where American cuisine gets an L.A. update. A restaurant review.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 26, 2014
When people ask about the modern way of eating in Los Angeles, the succession of wildly variant small plates followed perhaps by a big, shared platter of meat, I sometimes refer them to Josef Centeno, who got the style started here when he was...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

Related Articles

Jonathan Gold reviews P.Y.T., a vegetable-centered nirvana in L.A.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 11, 2016
One of the best things I had to eat this summer was a whole celeriac cooked by Daniel Berlin, of the restaurant that bears his name in southern Sweden. The unlovely root, probably his most famous dish, had been roasted for nine or 10 hours in the...

Jonathan Gold's top 10 restaurant dishes of 2014, the alternative edition

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 6, 2015
It has come to my attention that a few Times readers found my list of the best dishes of 2014 disturbing. Not all of you, it seems, are as delighted as I am to live in a city whose attractions include chicken neck tacos, blood soup and jellied...

Jonathan Gold's 10 best dishes of 2016

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • December 9, 2016
2016, by all accounts, was a year from which we will not soon recover; a year when the social-media obsessives among us were reduced to peeking at Twitter feeds between their fingers. But the food wasn’t bad – the year saw the rise of Filipino...

101 Best Restaurants: 15 dining destinations in downtown Los Angeles

Patricia Escárcega, Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 7, 2020
[Looking for the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. list? Look no further.] With three restaurants in the top 10 in our 101 Best Restaurants list, downtown Los Angeles is one of the most dining-rich neighborhoods in the city. In total, 15 DTLA...
Sonoratown    Orsa & Winston    Bar Amá    Bäco Mercat    Hayato    Bavel    Rossoblu    Grand Central Market    Bon Temps    Bestia    Broken Spanish    Shibumi    Q    Nightshade    The Exchange    Little Sister    Badmaash   

Where to dine in Southern California if you love tasting menus

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • February 3, 2017
You can call it a tasting menu. You can call it omakase. You can call it dégustation, a banquet menu or modern kaiseki. What it tends to be is a meal made up of dozens of small tastes, served in exquisite rhythm, where the courses, their order and...