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California restaurants in 19 counties — including Los Angeles County — must halt indoor dine-in operations effective immediately, a measure intended to slow the aggressive resurgence of COVID-19 across the state. The restrictions will be in place...

On a cold, drizzly day in March I discovered a new taqueria in Garden Grove that specializes in Tijuana-style birria tacos. Birrieria El Bandido began as a food truck (technically a trailer), which the owners still operate. They park it behind the...

The following is a list of restaurants and butcher shops offering at-home grilling kits for the Fourth of July. Bäco Mercat Chef Josef Centeno is putting together burger grill kits with ingredients for four double cheeseburgers, a cucumber-beet...

Hugo’s Tacos temporarily closed both of its popular stands over the weekend due to conflicts with customers who refuse to wear face masks. The restaurants instituted a “no mask, no service” policy to keep employees and customers safe amid the...

It was a belated celebration meal for one of those milestones with a zero at the end of it. Your birthday, so you choose the restaurant, I’d told my friend — as long as the place had outdoor seating. It was the first meal back in a restaurant...

While experts continue to debate if Los Angeles has been too hasty in its rush to return to dine-in restaurants, one Echo Park eatery has rolled out a clever compromise. Guests ordering a meal on the expansive patio of Lady Byrd Cafe can eat a...

These days the scoop everyone is screaming for is the strawberry ice cream at Antico. Since it opened last summer the east Larchmont Village trattoria has garnered acclaim for both its pastas and its ice creams, which have drawn food-world...

On Friday afternoon, 24 hours before Lemeir Mitchell opened Happy Ice on Melrose Avenue, the 28-year-old sat and stared at the rainbow-colored room around him. Cloudlike light fixtures hung from the ceiling. The dessert shop’s logo, written in...

In early March, two weeks before the coronavirus shut down L.A. dining rooms — before the new reality of disposable menus, face-shield-wearing servers and robot waiters — I wrote an enthusiastic review of Bar Avalon in Echo Park. In the review, I...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Rogelio “Rogie” Hernandez, wearing a canvas apron, disposable gloves, and a coiled bandana tied around his brow, set up a small table at the edge of Grand Park in downtown L.A., where he passed out small plastic...