Margarita Manzke has been making L.A. sweeter since opening République with her husband Walter in 2013. Though she has little in the way of formal education as a pastry chef, she’s become one of the top bakers around. Her program of desserts and daytime pastries has earned her a 2019 James Beard Award nomination for […]
Next Time You Can’t Get a Rez at Jon & Vinny’s, You Can Make This Pasta at Home
Jon & Vinny’s may have two L.A. locations—the original on Fairfax and the newish outpost on San Vicente in Brentwood—but just try getting a weekend rez when you’re craving some of their pizza or pasta. Which is pretty much always. In the event that you can’t get a table—or, hell, just don’t feel like leaving […]
The Best Things to Do (and Taste) at the 2019 L.A. Food Bowl
L.A. Food Bowl returns, activating spaces across the city with the year’s largest celebration of food, chefs, farmers, wine-makers, bartenders, baristas, and, of course, eaters. From April 20 to May 31, culinary enthusiasts can pick from over 100 different events, curated by Peter Meehan and the rest of the Los Angeles Times food staff. It’s a […]
In His Memoir, Chef Kwame Onwuachi Accuses Chef Chris Flint of Racially Insensitive Behavior
Washington D.C.-based chef Kwame Onwauchi’s new memoir, Notes From a Young Black Chef, details his rise in the world of fine dining–including recalling insensitive and inappropriate comments he endured while working in elite kitchens. Among the incidents he recounts were his run-ins with chef Chris Flint, most recently of NoMad Los Angeles, when Onwauchi was working for […]
Roy Choi’s Chego Is Leaving Chinatown
A lot’s changed in Chinatown since Roy Choi’s rice-bowl spot Chego opened its doors in Far East Plaza six years ago. It was the “new kid on the block,” we wrote in 2013, “surrounded by old-school noodle joints, pho houses, and seafood spots, you can practically make out the tinny tunes played by an old, scraggly […]
What Happened to Simone?
Just six months after the highly anticipated Arts District restaurant Simone opened its doors, owner Joe Russo announced on Friday that culinary star Jessica Largey had left her post as executive chef—an immeasurable blow to a restaurant that had previously been heralded as one of the year’s most important openings. In a press release, Russo—the director […]