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Nipsey Hussle’s legacy lives on with Marathon Burger, a new Melrose diner You can smell the char of the Wagyu burgers from down the block, which is coincidentally how far the line often stretches. But at Melrose Avenue’s newest diner, the food isn’t the only draw. Marathon Burger is an ode to late community activist … Read more

San Francisco-founded Boichik Bagels now operates a storefront and bagel factory in Los Feliz. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angles Times)

Rasarumah, now in the Michelin Guide, serves Malaysian and broader Southeast Asian cuisine such as a rojak of jicama, cucumber, sour mango, tamarind and Thai basil. (Stephanie Breijo / Los Angeles Times) Before the Michelin Guide publishes its annual compendium of the best California restaurants, the global dining authority inducts some of the region’s new … Read more

Vegetable soups are flexible so use whatever produce you have on hand. Clockwise from top, an Italian winter vegetable soup, broccoli-fennel pureed soup and lentil and kale soup. (Rebecca Peloquin / For The Times) At the start of this year, I did some positive reframing of my self-flagellating resolutions and resolved to be nice to … Read more

Running a restaurant in L.A. seems impossible. So this chef has one employee — himself Chef Okay Inak, who grew up in Turkey and spent time in New York cooking at fine-dining institutions Per Se and Eleven Madison Park as well as Mélisse in L.A., is alone in his tiny 16-seat restaurant on an industrial … Read more

(Bricia Lopez ) 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. There is a recipe … Read more

Noma Kaffe is the new monthly coffee subscription service from Copenhagen restaurant Noma, featuring exclusive beans sourced from small farms. (Noma Kaffe) Chef René Redzepi of famed restaurant Noma in Copenhagen and his flavor laboratory Noma Projects are launching a new coffee membership, available to be delivered around the world, starting today. Redzepi’s mission to … Read more

Meet the Jumbo’s Clown Room dancer whose sexy, effortless cookbook is ‘for the girls’ In another life, before she was a beloved veteran dancer at Jumbo’s Clown Room, Scarlett Kapella picked up a day shift at a sleazy yet notorious strip club in the Valley called the Candy Cat — well, notorious because it was … Read more

Ayahuasca-lite? Why cacao ceremonies are showing up all over L.A. Walking barefoot across the cool tile floor, her silver face gems twinkling in the sunlight, sound bath practitioner and energy healer Maya Andreeva distributed paper cups filled with brown liquid to the 20 mostly youngish adults seated on yoga mats and blankets on the ground. … Read more

Server Jose Moran worked at the Original Pantry Cafe for 45 years. (Nick Argro / For The Times) A fixture in L.A.’s dining scene since 1924, the Original Pantry Cafe closed on Sunday after a union contract dispute between the owners and staff, many of whom had worked at the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument for … Read more