MTN – LA Weekly

Has This New Venice Restaurant Reached Peak Abbot Kinney? Got your Highly Anticipated Westside Restaurant Opening bingo card handy? OK, let’s see… * Is located in a building that could double as an art installation

Dongpo Kitchen

Chinese Group’s First Casual-Dining Outpost Opens Since 1996, restaurant group Meizhou Dongpo has served millions of customers in over a hundred fine-dining locations in China, all with an emphasis on perfecting traditional Sichuanese cuisine in a formal setting. Owners Chef Wang Gang and his wife, Liang Li, brought their fine-dining concept to Los Angeles in […]

Gus’s Fried Chicken – Eater LA

Gus’s World Famous Is Heating Up Burbank’s Fried Chicken Scene Right Now The national chain adds an already-popular second location Memphis-based spicy chicken chain Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken has officially opened in Burbank, adding even more space (and parking) to their growing fried chicken empire. The address along Glenoaks Boulevard softly started serving last […]

Trina Turk – LA Times

Trina Turk opens a Palm Springs-inspired shop selling men’s and women’s clothes in Larchmont Village   Before closing in 2015, there was a Trina Turk store on a busy stretch of 3rd Street between Crescent Heights Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles for eight years. That’s until parking and traffic became too much of […]

BBCM USC – Eater LA

Sunset’s Latest Patio Obsession Earns Second Outlet Next to USC’s CampusSunset’s Latest Patio Obsession Earns Second Outlet Next to USC’s Campus BBCM will shine down on students early this summer In the expansion the team has decided to go ahead and shorten the whole thing just to BBCM, but keep the same ethos of the […]

Brids and Bees – LA Weekly

Birds and Bees Brings L.A. Back to Its Cocktail Golden Era If you haven’t heard the buzz, Birds & Bees is kind of a big deal. Not just because it serves classic cocktails in a dim, Don Draper–esque den that transports you to the 1950s. Not even because it’s another signifier of downtown L.A.’s culinary […]

Baco Shop – EaterLA

Bäcoshop Is the Lunch Hero Culver City Needs Right Now Superhero chef Josef Centeno unmasks his latest fast casual project It’s almost time for Bäcoshop, the long-awaited downtown Culver City offering from chef Josef Centeno. The star restaurateur is known for owning a particularly busy block of Downtown with his restaurants Ledlow, PYT, Orsa & […]

Baco Shop – LA Times

Bäcoshop, Josef Centeno’s Culver City fast-casual restaurant, opens Thursday Coffee-rubbed steak with charred scallion crema; braised pork cooked with berbere Doro Wat-style; and buttermilk cucumbers with pickled grapes. This is how chef Josef Centeno does fast-casual dining.

Tantris Yoga Studio – LA Weekly

Russell Simmons’ New Yoga Studio Aims for Hot Yoga Nirvana Entrepreneur Russell Simmons has never been shy about taking eclectic bits of high and low culture, remixing them and deftly rebranding them with his own modern twist. He’s done this successfully in music, fashion, entertainment — even veganism. Now, as a fairly new transplant, his […]