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L.A. chefs have a wish list for 2025: ‘Don’t just keep restaurants on a list; make a plan and go’ Los Angeles is a resilient town. I don’t know that we’ve witnessed a disaster as catastrophic as these fires before, but I’m hopeful the city will eventually heal and rebuild. Even before the multiple wildfires, … Read more

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Dtown Pizzeria brought Detroit-style pies to the LA Pizza Alliance event on Jan. 15. Roughly two dozen pizzerias banded together to provide free food for evacuees, first responders and volunteers in the wake of the L.A. fires. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angles Times) On Wednesday night, dozens of pizzaiolos crammed into the kitchen of La … Read more

Dean Yasharian walks through what’s left of his Altadena home after the Eaton fire burned through his neighborhood. Yasharian is the chef and owner of Perle restaurant in Pasadena. (Pauline Yasharian ) Over the past eight years, Dean and Pauline Yasharian built a life for their family in a quiet corner of northeast Altadena. They … Read more

Felipe Ortega, a 64-year-old bartender and maintenance worker, from Gladstones, worries about future work after the restaurant sustained damage in the Palisades fire. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Felipe Ortega has spent 38 years — more than half of his life — working at Gladstones in Pacific Palisades. He started as a busboy and … Read more

(Mariah Tauger/Los Angeles Times) Newsletter You are reading our Cooking newsletter Sign up to get a taste of Los Angeles — and the world — in your own home and in your inbox every Friday Enter email address Sign Me Up You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. On Wednesday, the … Read more

Review: An Arts District hot spot redefines the bistro for Los Angeles In the bleakest days of early 2021, when Courtney Kaplan and Charles Namba started believing that the pandemic would force the closure of Tsubaki, their modern izakaya in Echo Park, the couple would distract themselves with some hopeful fantasizing: If this place did … Read more

Yeastie Boys employees Jorge Cirico, left, and Juan Perez hand bagels and schmear to an American Red Cross representative at the Pasadena Convention Center on Wednesday. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times) On Wednesday, evacuees trickled into the Pasadena Convention Center in a steady stream, many holding only one or two bags containing belongings saved … Read more

(Connor Sheets / Los Angeles Times) Wide swaths of L.A. County lay scorched after devastating fires. Long-standing restaurants that once defined the coastline were partially or completely destroyed, including Gladstones, Moonshadows and Reel Inn in Malibu, as well as a growing number of Altadena restaurants. Some don’t know whether they’ll be able to reopen. Last … Read more

The Palisades fire quickly consumed more than 1,200 acres on Tuesday, including multiple iconic coastal restaurants — and threatened the mountain community of Topanga. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) “It’s like Armageddon,” Canyon Bakery owner Patrice Winter said. “That’s all I can say. What they’re showing on the news is really real; … Read more