Review: The return of Here's Looking at You is a serious win for L.A. dining

Brilliant small plates and wild cocktails mark the return of Lien Ta and Jonathan Whitener's HLAY in Koreatown

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 24, 2022

Ding ding. The tinny chime of a twice-tapped service bell — the analogue silver dome once used to summon hotel desk clerks — pierces the din of the packed 50-seat dining room as Drake’s “Fake Love” pounds from the speakers. Chef Jonathan Whitener,...

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I thought one of my favorite L.A. restaurants had closed forever. It's back

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 26, 2022

Did I feel a little skeptical the first time I sat down to a meal at Here’s Looking at You? It was early spring 2018 and I was still wandering the country as Eater’s national critic. The energy at Lien Ta and Jonathan Whitener’s tiny, eccentric...

Review: Silver Lake's All Day Baby shine at breakfast and lunch

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 12, 2020

If you’re thinking about which hour to visit Silver Lake’s buzzing new morning-to-night restaurant All Day Baby, start by going for breakfast. Open the double-glass door and walk into a daydream of the American corner diner. A compact coffee...

All Day Baby

Come and ravage us: Scenes from the fire sale at one of L.A.’s hottest restaurants

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • March 18, 2020

At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, the line to enter All Day Baby in Silver Lake trailed around the block, even though the sign on its door said “closed/cerrado.” People had turned out to support the modern American diner, which opened in late November, for...

All Day Baby

Yes, there is good dim sum on the Westside — these shaggy taro puffs are it

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • September 19, 2022

Here’s where to eat — and what to order — right now. Fried taro dumplings from Lotus Dim Sum Dumpling House I spent many Sundays growing up eating wu gok at dim sum parlors all over the San Gabriel Valley. The fried taro puffs may be the most...

Jonathan Gold finds strong flavors and a splendid bar at Here’s Looking at You in Koreatown

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 25, 2016

In a Times op-ed a few weeks ago, the architect Thom Mayne suggested Koreatown as a candidate for future hyperdensity, doubling the population of what is already the most densely populated neighborhood in Los Angeles. If you have ever tried to...