This year was brutal for Los Angeles restaurants. With Ka’teen in Hollywood and multiple new restaurants on the horizon — including one slated for L.A. next year — Avila chose to close his more casual restaurant. “We’ve had some slow weeks and slow months,” chef and co-owner Spencer Bezaire told The Times, “and with just the cost of everything going …
I’ll never forget my first conversation with David Rosoff, one of the great wine savants of Los Angeles who has been helping to shape our tastes for decades. On one side of Rápido is Bar Moruno, the reincarnation of a restaurant, themed loosely around Spanish bar food, that Rosoff first ran in a semi-open-air space at the Original Farmers Market …
Housed in the forthcoming Rykn hotel, new izakaya Kodo and Rykn Cafe — from the team behind Hollywood’s Kensho — are serving Kyoto-inspired flavor in the Arts District. Kodo A haute Kyoto-inspired izakaya from David Wynn, owner of Hollywood wine bar and restaurant Kensho, is now open in the Arts District in the boutique hotel Rykn from Wynn’s Kensho Group. …
As a food columnist, I’m out almost every night, trying new restaurants, stands and trucks. After trying the one at Ray Garcia’s new restaurant at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, simply labeled “caviar” on the menu, I’m convinced it belongs on nothing else. Tinned fish boards at Bar Moruno LA I’m about to make the argument that tinned fish boards …
