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Articles for Bill Addison

Notable L.A. restaurant closures spiked in 2024. Here’s the grim tally
1 week, 4 days ago

Notable L.A. restaurant closures spiked in 2024. Here’s the grim tally

LA Times  

2023 proved untenable for dozens of Los Angeles restaurants that shut their doors forever. Some of the city’s most influential chefs closed businesses this year: Josiah Citrin, Walter and Margarita Manzke, Enrique Olvera, Zachary Pollack, “Top Chef” contestants Shirley Chung and Jackson Kalb, Timothy Hollingsworth. Caffe Roma A long-running Beverly Hills Italian restaurant closed after 45 years “with a mix …

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Why Destroyer is still crushing it at breakfast and lunch
4 weeks ago

Why Destroyer is still crushing it at breakfast and lunch

LA Times  

“This is so 2017 of me,” I texted my journalist friend Meghan McCarron earlier this week, “but I’m spontaneously going to Destroyer today. A return to Destroyer Fast-forward to 2024, when I realized it had been a couple years since I’d had a meal at Destroyer. He’s nailed his recent one: ribbons of zucchini tangled among salad greens, dressed in …

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A brunch that leaves vegetable lovers sighing is back
1 month, 3 weeks ago

A brunch that leaves vegetable lovers sighing is back

LA Times  

Do your tastes lean sweet or savory for the day’s first meal? The return of Kismet’s beautifully L.A. brunch menu What I most want arrives in a form that has recently reappeared in Los Angeles: These days Sarah Hymanson and Sara Kramer call it “the big brunch plate,” marking the return to their weekend daytime service at Kismet. Kismet’s “big …

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Around the world, October is the sweetest, meatiest month for crab
2 months, 1 week ago

Around the world, October is the sweetest, meatiest month for crab

LA Times  

In Los Angeles, fall for me means researching, eating and writing at the fastest possible pace to pull together our annual 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. project. Autumn is also when you’re most likely to get crabs caught in local waters: Over the last half-century, the rise in demand for crabs in the summer has meant businesses buy crabs or …

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Here’s where you want to eat in San Diego right now
5 months, 1 week ago

Here’s where you want to eat in San Diego right now

LA Times  

The great thing about dining at sushi counters, beyond close communion with the chef, is the conversations that often spark between customers about all kinds of restaurants. The subject of coffee in San Diego came up, and he recommended a shop called Finjan, where baristas make drinks from beans roasted by James Coffee Co. and serve Palestinian-style knafeh and baklava …

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Three excellent L.A. izakayas that highlight Japan’s traditional pub culture
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Three excellent L.A. izakayas that highlight Japan’s traditional pub culture

LA Times  

While I was writing this week’s review of Budonoki in Virgil Village, I reached out to deputy food editor Betty Hallock with a question that led to more queries. The beckoning signage of Pink Orchid bakery nearly overshadows Hakata Izakaya Hero’s modest storefront next door. Wine and sake bottles line the kitchen window at Hiro Chiya’s Hakata Izakaya Hero in …

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A destination restaurant in the high desert is better than ever
9 months, 3 weeks ago

A destination restaurant in the high desert is better than ever

LA Times  

In June 2018 I was driving across California for a statewide project, eating as much as stomach room and time would allow. Claire Wadsworth and Nikki Hill opened La Copine in the Flamingo Heights area of Yucca Valley in 2015. Nikki Hill and Claire Wadsworth, the owners of La Copine, met in Philadelphia in 2009, fell in love and relocated …

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New chefs turn Botanica into a dinnertime destination like never before
1 year, 4 months ago

New chefs turn Botanica into a dinnertime destination like never before

LA Times  

The plate delivered to our table during Botanica’s dinner service came layered with ingredients appearing almost disconcertingly pale, like a nearly white canvas hanging on a gallery wall that the brain snap-reacts to declare, “This isn’t much of anything.” Then I delved into the layers and understood, in its many textures and tastes, that this was plenty of something. Barkley …

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Thinking woman’s bagel: Christopher Walken or Bill Nighy
1 year, 10 months ago

Thinking woman’s bagel: Christopher Walken or Bill Nighy

LA Times  

Is Bill Nighy the thinking woman’s crumpet or bagel? I’ll also be waiting for film critic Justin Chang‘s analysis of the winners — who could forget his 2019 post-Oscars night essay, “‘Green Book’ is the worst best picture winner since ‘Crash’”? My old report cards, every breed of dog, every last personal ad on Craigslist, sesame, poppy seed, salt..” Partly …

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10 great new pizza restaurants in L.A., ranked by our critic
2 years, 4 months ago

10 great new pizza restaurants in L.A., ranked by our critic

LA Times  

Secret Pizza’s owner Sean Lango uses a pizza peel to retrieve a fresh cheese pizza from the oven. It’s 1,000 times better than pineapple The best things Jenn ate last week, including shawarma at the new Saffy’s, kimchi pizza at Olivia in Koreatown and Laotian sausages in Westminster. Ryan Ososky makes the closest faithful rendition of the puffed, rectangular, cheese-fringed …

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6 must-try dishes at San Gabriel’s new food hall
3 years ago

6 must-try dishes at San Gabriel’s new food hall

LA Times  

The Omicron variant surges through Los Angeles and beyond; there’s no federal aid in sight for restaurants facing staffing shortages and temporary closures as employees test positive for infections; and restaurant operators face these circumstances in what is traditionally the year’s quietest month for dining out: Welcome to the first full week of January 2022. Taking in the gleam of …

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Vespertine makes the most creative takeout food in L.A.
4 years, 7 months ago

Vespertine makes the most creative takeout food in L.A.

LA Times  

Before Jordan Kahn’s unearthly project Vespertine took up residence in the four-story building at 3599 Hayden Ave. in Culver City, architect Eric Owen Moss simply called his structure “Waffle.” No nickname could be more apt: Its form resembles several squared-off Eggos dipped in hot chicken spices and built into a wobbly fort. The “dry fish” dish, garnished with passiflora caerulea, …

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Eight great places for takeout banh mi
4 years, 8 months ago

Eight great places for takeout banh mi

LA Times  

Banh mi are essential to Los Angeles, as embedded in the culinary landscape as tortas, shawarma, French dips, subs, hot chicken and Langer’s No. 304 W. Valley Blvd., Alhambra, 289-4160; also at 9011 Garvey Ave., Rosemead, 872-1884, banhmimytho.com Chicken meatball banh mi at Banh Oui in Hollywood. 1552 N. Cahuenga Blvd., -645-7944, banhoui.com Saigon Special and Grilled Pork banh mi …

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21 great L.A. places for Mexican food delivery and takeout
4 years, 9 months ago

21 great L.A. places for Mexican food delivery and takeout

LA Times  

There is hope in the sight of Wes Avila’s sweet potato taco splotched with almond salsa. 4538 East Cesar E Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, 262-5977 Broken Spanish Ray Garcia funnels a few headliners from his downtown restaurant’s modern Angeleno menu into generous family-style meals. 3014 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, 427-0608, ilovemole.com Guerrilla Tacos If you remember Wes Avila’s singular …

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7 great takeout meals our restaurant critic has tried (so far)
4 years, 9 months ago

7 great takeout meals our restaurant critic has tried (so far)

LA Times  

Since the shutdown of dine-in restaurants on March 15, I’ve been eating mostly carryout, doing what little I can to help while watching chefs, restaurateurs and their employees fight for their livelihoods. 14110 Oxnard St., Van Nuys, 909-2593, kobeefactoryla.com Pork banh mi, Porridge & Puffs It is a given that Minh Phan’s porridge — especially the one with mushrooms, ground …

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Newsletter: 6 great pizza places in Los Angeles
5 years, 5 months ago

Newsletter: 6 great pizza places in Los Angeles

LA Times  

Restaurant Critic Is Los Angeles a pizza town? But yes, Los Angeles has some excellent pizza — pies made to the specifications of its pizzaiolos’ imaginations, shaped by Italy’s pizza traditions but not beholden to them. Pizza is top of mind for me this week: On Thursday, The Times published my review of the first U.S. franchise location of L’Antica …

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Q&A: Get to know Bill Addison, one of The Times’ new restaurant critics
6 years ago

Q&A: Get to know Bill Addison, one of The Times’ new restaurant critics

LA Times  

Bill Addison is one of two restaurant critics who recently joined the Los Angeles Times. Food Q&A: Get to know Patricia Escárcega, new restaurant critic for the L.A. Times Patricia Escárcega was recently named one of the Food section’s new restaurant critics. Today I will say that my restaurant critic’s answer is a meal at Noma in Copenhagen circa 2012 …

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Review: Fiona showcases pie queen Nicole Rucker’s baking talents, and so much more
6 years ago

Review: Fiona showcases pie queen Nicole Rucker’s baking talents, and so much more

LA Times  

Nicole Rucker dollops so much whipped cream atop her Key lime pie that the white billow hovers above it like a lazy cloud. And though no one would be chastised for treating the place like a pie shop, Fiona, as with so many of Los Angeles’ most compelling modern restaurants, intentionally skirts easy categorization. Q&A: Get to know Bill Addison, …

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