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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

Guerrilla Tacos, one of L.A.’s most influential taquerias, is set to close later this month in the Arts District. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Genre-bending Guerrilla Tacos and farm-focused Sage are among some of the city’s most influential restaurants of the last decade to announce their closures in the first days of 2025. A … Read more

Apple fritters from Mr. Goods Donuts Shop in Pasadena. (Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times) In many ways, 2025 already feels like a dumpster fire. Not like the first few sparks of a blaze that’s about to ignite, but a raging fire fast engulfing anything and everything in its path. Maybe a few well-intentioned resolutions … Read more

Soccoro Herrera in 2016 taking orders from her chair by the window at Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz. Herrera died Dec. 23 at 89. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) When Socorro Herrera saw the former shoeshine booth in a Los Feliz liquor store parking lot back in 1976, she said she thought … Read more