At Sam’s Place in Highland Park, the low-lighted bar and restaurant serves a pared-down menu of classics such as steak, salad, roasted sweet potatoes and Marcona almonds. Sam’s Place Dimly lighted and mysterious, the new Highland Park hot spot Sam’s Place from Hermosillo wine bar vets Scotty Cantino and Ben Jones has no social media, no website and no phone …
The tinted glass entrance to Budonoki, which faces the intersection of Melrose and Virgil avenues, doesn’t so much mirror its surroundings as stare back blankly. As the pupils dilate enough to take in the room’s major details — a bar angled along the left wall, paper lanterns across the ceiling, fluorescent purple and reddish-pink lighting that more recalls the curated …
Restaurant Critic On any given night, Tsubaki, a tiny neighborhood izakaya in Echo Park, radiates the kind of buzzy, convivial warmth that inspires small huddles of people to gather outside the front door at dusk to wait for an open table. Review: At Alta Adams, Keith Corbin’s ‘California soul food’ bridges tradition and innovation » The sake list at Tsubaki …
