Review: The Hearth & Hound, April Bloomfield's new Los Angeles restaurant, is nothing like a gastropub

Jonathan Gold considers April Bloomfield's vegetable-centric cooking at Hollywood's new Hearth & Hound
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • January 26, 2018
The first time I visited the Hearth & Hound in Hollywood, not long after the restaurant opened in December, I was happy to find icy oysters zapped with sorrel, whole roasted beets smeared with creamy blue cheese, Moroccan-ish roast lamb with...
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