Lentil soup at Taverna Castelluccio in the Umbrian village of Castelluccio rising above the lentil-growing Piano Grande in Italy’s Apennine mountains. And yet, as I wrote for our series of preview stories for this month’s L.A. Times Food Bowl — see tomorrow’s Sunday paper — “amid all these losses, chefs and restaurateurs continue to open ambitious, personal and creatively challenging …
On a recent Saturday evening in Santa Monica, under a white tent, the lone server at Lokl Haus Kitchen pop-up hurried over to our table carrying three platters of döner kebab. Lokl Haus Kitchen pop-up in Santa Monica offers döner kebab on Wednesday and Saturday evenings. Senem Sanli, right, owner of coffee shop Lokl Haus in Santa Monica, prepares dishes …
