Review: Simone is a big Arts District production in need of cohesion

Lauded chef Jessica Largey makes her Los Angeles debut with Simone, a restaurant rife in Art Deco glamour and California platitudes.
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 21, 2019
Any steak overcooked to ruin feels like a bitter waste. It’s particularly vexing when that fate befalls an exquisitely dry-aged, 36-ounce rib-eye from California-raised beef — a steak so marbled it brings to mind aerial views of sinuous river...
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