Review: Looking for food that's truly Native to L.A.? Jonathan Gold has this restaurant in mind

"Top Chef" alumna Nyesha Arrington opens a new vegetable-forward restaurant in Santa Monica that is simultaneously wildly diverse and very local.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 23, 2018
What, I sometimes wonder, should a Los Angeles restaurant be? Does it need to reflect the city’s magnificent diversity, or will the occasional dash of Sriracha or snip of kimchi do? Will it find all of its produce in the better farmers markets?...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

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