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Fausto Perez flips eggs at East Los Pantry in East Los Angeles. The taqueria has hired workers from the shuttered Original Pantry to replicate some of the beloved restaurant’s breakfast items. (Gustavo Arellano / Los Angeles Times) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. I’m Gustavo Arellano, Metro columnist, writing … Read more

Vasquez spent years researching recipes and interviewing Salvadoran cooks for “The SalviSoul Cookbook.” (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) “The SalviSoul Cookbook” by L.A. author Karla Tatiana Vasquez on Wednesday became the first entry by a Salvadoran chef or author to be nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award. The significance is not lost … Read more

One of the many signature dishes from Here’s Looking at You, uni panna cotta, can be found until June 13 at the Koreatown restaurant. (Annie Noelker / For The Times) On June 13 one of the city’s most celebrated, eclectic restaurants will close after nearly a decade of accolades, frog legs and cocktails tinged with … Read more

Chef Joshua Gil, pictured in 2023, recently opened Three Flames in Westchester and is known for his pioneering pop-up Supper Liberation Front and several Los Angeles restaurants, including now-closed Tacos Punta Cabras and Miramé. (Jenn Laskey / Courtesy of Joshua Gil) In November, chef Joshua Gil nearly died. In February, he opened his new restaurant. … Read more

Where to find Sri Lankan food in L.A.? Inside the kitchen bringing string hoppers to East Hollywood There’s no shortage of delicious things to eat in East Hollywood: herbaceous lamb kebabs at Saffy’s; garlicky prawns at Kuya Lord; the entire spicy-sweet-salty pantheon of Thai Town. But until recently, there was nowhere to try kottu roti, … Read more

Is this the best shopping center in the San Gabriel Valley? The shopping centers of the San Gabriel Valley often act as points of reference that are more reliable than specific cross streets or even addresses. If someone mentions the strip mall with the Wushiland boba shop, the 99 Ranch Market and the dumpling restaurant … Read more

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A pepperoni pizza from Downtown Dough. (Jakob N. Layman / Downtown Dough) A new pizzeria from entertainment multihyphenate Issa Rae and her business partners is set to debut this weekend, bringing funk-inspired pizza to their popular cafe. By day, the downtown space will continue as Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen. At night, starting May 3, it … Read more

Now Serving in Chinatown just announced the Friends of the Shop initiative to help recover lost cookbook collections. (Solomon O. Smith / For The Times) Los Angeles is nearly four months removed from the wildfires that destroyed more than 18,000 homes and structures in January, but much of the damage remains — both emotional and … Read more

Carl Doumani, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who bought Stags’ Leap Winery in 1969, was known as a bon vivant and raconteur who regularly lunched with his winemaker friends. (Photograph from Julie Ann Kodmur) Carl Kheir Doumani, a mid-century Los Angeles developer-turned-wine-country icon, died April 22 in his sleep at his home in the Napa Valley, … Read more