Orsa & Winston – LA Eater

Orsa & Winston Gets Into the Lunch Game Tomorrow With Healthy Grain Bowls Done with a Josef Centeno twist, of course. Beginning tomorrow, Orsa & Winston is rolling out a new kind of downtown lunch option. Josef Centeno’s tasting menu restaurant offered a more casual yakitori-ya experience in recent months, which got the chef to thinking […]

Nong La – LA Weekly

NONG LA BRINGS VIETNAMESE FLAVOR TO LA BREA When you think of the stretch of La Brea Ave. near the corner of Beverly Blvd., it’s likely furniture and design stores come to mind. When you consider food in this part of town, you might think of the upscale restaurants nearby on Beverly, such as Angelini […]

Lobsta Shack – DT News

  Lobsta Shack DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – Opened late last year just outside Chinatown, the Lobsta Shack restaurant marks the brick and mortar debut for founder Justin Mi’s widely popular Lobsta Truck, which truck chasers have been following around Downtown (and other locales) religiously since it hit the road in 2010. The truck’s signature Lobsta Roll […]

Ledlow – LA Weekly

AT LEDLOW, CLASSIC AMERICANA GETS A MODERN EDGE An underlying guiding principle of Americana is detectable, and some dishes on the menu are unequivocally classic: There are Parker House rolls that arrive in a cast iron skillet, golden on the outside and gorgeously fluffy on the inside, served with a side of pimento cheese made […]

Officine BRERA – LA Eater

American Tea Room Steeping For May Debut in Arts District The Beverly Hills tea house by David Barenholtz is currently under construction. More tea is coming to Los Angeles soon, courtesy of David Barenholtz. The all-around tea aficionado has been running the popular American Tea Room in Beverly Hills for more than a decade, and earlier […]

DeSano Pizza Bakery – Thrillist

THE ESSENTIAL LA HAPPY HOUR UPDATE There are 24 hours in a day. And 58.5 hours’ worth of new happy hours in this article. According to math, it’s about to get mad easy for you to find a newly cheap-ass drink all over Los Angeles.

Spaghettini – Huffington Post

Spaghettini – Hot Food & Cool Music in Beverly Hills! Missing from the bustling Los Angeles scene for too long has been the presence of fine dining allied with cool music (preferably jazz.) Yes, we have Herb Alpert’s wonderfulVIBRATO up on Mulholland, along with a few hit-or-miss places in Hollywood, but here on the West […]

Ledlow – Los Angeles Times

Review: At Ledlow, Josef Centeno is serious about American cuisine When people ask about the modern way of eating in Los Angeles, the succession of wildly variant small plates followed perhaps by a big, shared platter of meat, I sometimes refer them to Josef Centeno, who got the style started here when he was chef […]

The Hollywood Bowl & Froma on Melrose – LA Magazine

My LA to Z: Sandra Oh The Grey’s Anatomy alum will star in the animated film Window Horses, currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo until December 6. Here she talks Korean cold noodles, finding old Hollywood, and a hidden restaurant inside of a Travelodge

The Whisper Lounge – TimeOut LA

The Whisper Restaurant & Lounge The basics of classic American cuisine—steak, mac and cheese, pork chop—can be found at The Whisper Restaurant, a contemporary eatery and lounge inside The Grove. But classic doesn’t mean boring. Here, you’ll also find Florida gulf shrimp and butternut squash ravioli paired with expertly crafted cocktails, like a Miracle Mule […]