Where to dine in Southern California if you love tasting menus

L.A. Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold lists some of his favorite tasting menus in L.A.
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • February 3, 2017
You can call it a tasting menu. You can call it omakase. You can call it dégustation, a banquet menu or modern kaiseki. What it tends to be is a meal made up of dozens of small tastes, served in exquisite rhythm, where the courses, their order and...
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