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(Stephanie Breijo / 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. Cooking … Read more

More than 75 big-deal L.A. restaurants closed so far this year. So why are chefs still optimistic? In July, after more than a year of delays prepping her first bricks-and-mortar restaurant — and a long stretch earlier searching for the right spot — chef Rashida Holmes opened Bridgetown Roti with high hopes. Its previous incarnations … Read more

Here’s who showed up at the opening of L.A.’s first Hello Kitty cafe. Some drove hundreds of miles Nostalgia and an opportunity to reimagine her childhood propelled Savannah Martinez to drive more than 300 miles from Arizona to Friday’s grand opening of the first Hello Kitty and Friends Cafe in Los Angeles, located at Universal … Read more

Work continues to repair sections of the Bearspaw water feeder main on 16 Avenue N.W. in Calgary on Friday, September 6, 2024. Brent Calver/Postmedia Amber-hued wasp traps lined along the front counter of the Bowness Bottle Depot dealt with an insect annoyance. Owner Dilnaj Kullar scans a five-block stretch of excavations, fencing, barricades, detour signs … Read more

L.A.’s best Turkish cooking? Find it at this coffee shop’s kebab pop-up 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. He had whisked them from an adjacent building that serves as a … Read more

Chef Jordan Kahn in the Los Angeles Times Test Kitchen in May. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Few Los Angeles restaurateurs have had a more successful 2024 than Jordan Kahn. After years of closure, the chef’s groundbreaking fine-dining restaurant Vespertine reopened in the spring, with a new menu, a refreshed dining room and reinvigorated … Read more

Walking Spanish, from chefs and spouses Rene and Stephanie Coreas, serves creative spins on Central American classics, such as pupusas inspired by birria de res, green goddess dressing, backyard asadas and Koreatown. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times)

Wally Amos launched and lost a cookie empire. His family reveals the trailblazer’s baking secrets On March 10, 1975, when Wally Amos opened Famous Amos, a shop dedicated solely to selling cookies at the corner of Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard and Formosa Avenue, it was an improbable idea in an improbable location. There was a strip … Read more

Food Bowl at Paramount Pictures Studio Backlot. (Los Angeles Times) Since 2017, this paper has gathered chefs from Southern California and sometimes far beyond for a festival of eating and drinking that the late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold jokingly called Food Bowl. The name stuck. This year’s festival is focused on a food-and-drink-filled weekend at … Read more

(Stephanie Breijo / 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. Mary … Read more