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At my favorite new restaurant, the room is red and the chef is a doctor

I recently attempted to explain my new favorite restaurant to a friend. The potato jeons at Red Room are Sung’s souped-up tater tots, inspired by his childhood in Seoul and the six weeks he spent living in Argentina during the last year of medical school. “I think it’s one of my signature dishes because there are so many pancakes in …

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Members of the St. Agnes Korean Catholic Church have dinner in a private dining room at the Dragon on Jan. 13 in Los Angeles. Besides the regular gatherings with his friends from St. Agnes Korean Catholic Church, Kim has enjoyed many family meals and birthdays at the Dragon, which is his “dangol,” or go-to restaurant. “We gather here twice a …

Park’s BBQ wasn’t the first Korean barbecue restaurant to open in Los Angeles, not by a long shot. In fact, in 2004, a year after Park’s BBQ opened, Jonathan Gold wrote in L.A. Weekly that there were “a reputed 850 places to eat and drink” in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. “Park’s BBQ is the ultramodern palace of high-end meats that changed …

When Kiyong “Ki” Kim opened his 20-seat restaurant, Kinn, in Koreatown late in 2021, he funneled all the ideas and ambitions that had been percolating in his brain for years into a 10-item menu of starters and entrees. Among Kinn’s first inventive wave of dishes were rosy kerchiefs of brisket bathed in horseradish-tinged soy sauce and blanketed with bell pepper …

A Korean BBQ restaurant now has a union. Supermarkets may be next

Rebecca Nathan helped organize her former colleagues after she left Genwa. “They have this co-ethnic employee-employer relationship that often undermines the workers’ ability to express their grievances and report abuses,” said Chanchanit Martorell, executive director of the Thai Community Development Center. “We now look forward to the opportunity to work together with the California Restaurant and Retail Workers Union to …

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New Koreatown restaurant Laon is serving fresh pasta from a Trois Mec vet

Laon A new restaurant specializing in fresh, handmade pasta is open in Koreatown. Laon is a new concept from chef-owner Joon Chang, who also runs pop-up Fishpop, and operates within the same space as Japanese restaurant Rollypop. 3446 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, 315-5117, instagram.com/laon.la Kuya Lord The Filipino-food pop-up run by chef Lord Maynard Llera out of his La Cañada …

People walk past Quarters restaurant on 6th Street between Western and Vermont in Koreatown. “People are not coming.” On the surface, Koreatown’s 6th Street appears to be thriving as the pandemic enters its third year. “You have to continue to live your life, safely.” Brian Oh, left, and Ro Chei at Seongbukdong, a restaurant serving traditional Korean food on 6th …

Kinn, a modern Korean restaurant, opens in Koreatown

Kinn There’s a new modern Korean restaurant in Koreatown. Chef Ki Kim — previously of Jungsik and Atomix in New York City, and former chef of Naemo in Los Angeles — has teamed with the owners of Hanchic to open Kinn, a 20-seat restaurant serving a five-course seasonal tasting menu meant to showcase familiar Korean dishes and flavors in reimagined …