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The best coffee shops in Los Angeles

Bill AddisonRestaurant Critic • Los Angeles Times • February 23, 2023
What is the best place for coffee in Los Angeles? It’s the one most convenient to your home, or the one where the barista remembers your name, or the one with a calm, sunlit room that helps you disappear into your workflow. Taste in coffee — and...

Where to find the best espresso martini in Los Angeles

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • February 23, 2023
On weekends, the espresso martini is one of the top-selling drinks at the Lets Go! Disco & Cocktail Club in downtown Los Angeles. “It’s the drink of the moment,” beverage director and co-owner Lee Zaremba said on a recent evening at the bar as the...

Where to find international snacks including chips and drinks

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • February 20, 2023
Exotics Only sounds like the sort of place that sells adult movies, handcuffs and evocative roleplay costumes. The name showed up recently as I was scrolling through my TikTok feed. It did not turn out to be an account full of NSFW content. It was...

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...

The best restaurants to celebrate Mardi Gras in L.A.

Danielle Dorsey, Jenn Harris, Stephanie Breijo • Los Angeles Times • February 17, 2023
“Laissez les bon temps rouler!” This Mardi Gras mantra that translates to “Let the good times roll!” is more than a call to party — although it serves as that, too. It’s a petition to live with abandon, to embrace excess and decadence if only for...

Foodie horror film ‘The Menu’ inspired this L.A.. cheeseburger

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • February 13, 2023
This week’s recommendations will have you pining after a cheeseburger with a Hollywood twist and traveling to the top of a shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley for crab and karaoke. A really well-made cheeseburger I may have been the last...

Palm Springs guide: 64 things to do on a weekend trip

• Los Angeles Times • February 8, 2023
Advertisement Credits Editors: Brittany Levine Beckman, Daniel Hernandez, Marques Harper, Michelle Woo, Betty Hallock, Danielle Dorsey, Jen DollWriters: Julia Carmel, Christopher Reynolds, Lisa Boone, Adam Tschorn, Jeanette Marantos, Bill Addison,...

The best restaurants in Palm Springs for your next road trip

Bill AddisonRestaurant Critic • Los Angeles Times • February 8, 2023
Like most visitors, I head to Palm Springs to chill: to bake in the sun, to watch the colors of the San Jacinto Mountains change with the seasons and the daylight, to do as little as possible. A culinary tour is never my driving agenda in the...

Hitting Palm Springs casinos? Here's where to eat between games

Jenn HarrisColumnist • Los Angeles Times • February 8, 2023
I’ve traveled to the Palm Springs area a couple of times a year for as long as I can remember. As a child, my parents organized various vacations, mostly so my sister and I could stay somewhere with a pool. In March, we went for the BNP Paribas...

New proposed permits threaten future of outdoor dining in Los Angeles

Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • February 7, 2023
“It’s like being kicked in the shins, over and over again.” Holly Fox, co-owner of Last Word Hospitality, the group behind Found Oyster Bar in East Hollywood and Nossa Caipirinha Bar in Los Feliz, is bracing for another painful, expensive battle...