Review: Bring your wallet and your patience for dinner at Gary Menes' Le Comptoir in Koreatown

Restaurant review: Jonathan Gold finds luscious vegetables and learned lectures at Le Comptoir in L.A.'s Koreatown.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • October 9, 2015
When you walk down 6th Street in Koreatown about a quarter to nine some night, perhaps on your way to an early cocktail at the Walker Inn or a late cheeseburger at Cassell’s, you are likely to run across an odd scrum of people lining the sidewalk...
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