When Danielle Morris started working at Lawry’s the Prime Rib in Beverly Hills five years ago, she asked if she should wear her uniform to and from the job, as Morris had done for previous restaurant gigs. The man training her, who’d been there for decades, suggested she just change when she arrived at work, […]
This Itinerant Korean Pop-Up Tells the Story of Two Local Chefs
If there is a dish that embodies what it’s like to cook and eat in L.A. in 2019, it might be the beef tongue tostada at Dandi, a sporadic pop-up helmed by chefs and business partners Jihee Kim and Joshua Pressman. The presentation is minimal. Layers of Thai shallot kimchi and torched slices of kalbi […]
5 Smashed-Patty Burgers That Are the Reason Thin Is In
There was a time when burger fashion swung toward the baroque: patties as thick as hockey pucks heaped with fistfuls of arugula, malodorous cheeses, and a broad array of aiolis and compotes. But in 2019 burger minimalism has arrived. Nodding to the aesthetic of classic roadside diners and stands—revered institutions like Bill’s Burgers in Van […]
Meet the Mexico City Chef Teaming Up with Sqirl’s Jessica Koslow to Open a New L.A. Restaurant
For her first cookbook, My Mexico City Kitchen: Recipes and Convictions, chef Gabriela Cámara wanted the recipes to be approachable. “Yes, some of the things might be sophisticated for an average home cook. But I do believe that the recipes are written out and explained in a way in which even people who don’t cook […]
3 New Restaurants You Have to Try This June
From a new French spot in Los Feliz to a restaurant inside an old firehouse downtown, here are three new L.A. restaurants worth checking out this month. Loupiotte Kitchen A slice of Paris along Vermont Avenue, this daytime spot is the work of two restaurateurs who ran a bistro near the Arc de Triomphe. At […]
Can Innovative New Restaurant Auburn Break Its Space’s Curse?
The low-slung, sharp-edged building at the corner of Citrus and Melrose avenues has plenty of stories to tell. Few of them have happy endings. It was previously home to upscale restaurants like Michel Richard’s Citrus as well as Alex, Meson G, and Red Pearl Kitchen—the last three of which opened and shuttered in a span […]