Thursday, 9:30 a.m. Humberto Leon slinks around set wearing a faded T-shirt that says “Daddy” in bubble letters. Also the alt girls: Alanis, Fiona, the list goes on.” When it comes to working with Katseye, Leon says: “I feel like I can really relate to all of them.” Manon tells me that Katseye has monthly dinners with Leon where he …
The thing about observing the multitudes of dining cultures in a city as boundless as Los Angeles is that every axiom can hold true at once. In terms of the year’s overt luxuries, my thoughts keep drifting back to Kato — which, in its new Arts District location, has expanded in every possible way a restaurant can — and to …
Have you swung by the summer’s hottest dining sensation yet? Waitress Casey Gardner serves malai rigatoni, one of the restaurant’s signature dishes. By the time the malai rigatoni lands, you have reached the center of Pijja Palace’s culinary maze. He studied both restaurant management and cooking in professional settings, including brief stints in some of the Bay Area’s fancier Indian …
The $74 cheesecake from San Laurel It’s a scene that verges on the obscene. I felt ridiculous as I sat at Jose Andres’ new downtown restaurant and watched our server grate a fresh truffle over a small round of burnt Basque cheesecake. Will this.gif of truffle being shaved onto cheesecake at a celebrity chef’s new restaurant make it into an …
