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 …
Celebrated Poltergeist chef Diego Argoti stands next to an arcade token machine in Button Mash in 2023. At the end of this month Button Mash owners Jordan Weiss and Gabriel Fowlkes will permanently unplug the blipping, blinging video game terminals in Echo Park’s bar and arcade. “Reconciling that with the numbers that we were seeing and the operating costs and …
The Hollywood bar formerly known as Powerhouse is now Power House Bar, reopened by new management that hopes to bring the haunt close to its dive-bar roots. Power House Bar is open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 1714 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, 463-9438, powerhousehollywood.com Chef Diego Argoti kicked off …
