Weird and delicious Bar Chelou: L.A.'s next place to eat

Chef Douglas Rankin and pastry chef Raymond Morales from Silver Lake's now-closed Bar Restaurant have reunited at Bar Chelou next to the Pasadena Playhouse.

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2023

After you've devoured toast covered with shelled clams and near-molten leeks alongside a few intricately garnished plates of vegetables, and tried not to fill up completely on trout and pork chop entrees, the lemon-chamomile semifreddo at Bar...

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The best new restaurants in Pasadena

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • February 27, 2023

I’ve lived most of my life in Pasadena, a sprawling suburb northeast of downtown Los Angeles. It’s where Julia Child and Jackie Robinson lived for a time, where the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl are held every year. And it’s home to the...

How to win a seat at the best (and most booked-out) restaurant in Palm Springs

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 18, 2023

My party of two peers around the manicured hedges at the north end of the Plaza Del Sol Shopping Center at exactly 4:30 p.m. It’s nearly dusk on a Sunday in late January. I’m not entirely sure what kind of early crowd I’ll find waiting to score...

California wineries reel after closing tasting rooms due to coronavirus

Daniel Miller, Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • March 17, 2020

For the last six years, Jamie Slone and his wife Kym have run a boutique Santa Barbara winery that sells about 1,200 cases of Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir and other varieties each year. The operation, called Jamie Slone Wines, relies heavily on...

Review: Modernist French cooking at Silver Lake's Bar Restaurant

Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • February 20, 2020

The best thing to be said about the banal, post-structuralist name of Silver Lake’s new Bar Restaurant is that it is accurate. A bar and a restaurant do indeed coexist on the premises, separated by a wall but connected in the back by a curving...

Take-Out Tip of the Day: Bar Restaurant Is Packing Market Boxes with Whole Chickens and Wine

Hailey Eber • Los Angeles Magazine • March 19, 2020

Already low on essential provisions like vegetables, milk, and wine? Head to Bar Restaurant, the “neo-bistro” from restaurateur Jeff Ellermeyer, chef Douglas Rankin (who worked for Ludo Lefebvre for years), and manager and beverage director...