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    Storefront Report: New French and Latino menus await Highland Park diners

    The Highland Park dining scene continues to expand, with newcomers featuring organic Latino and French Rustic cuisine.  This week,  Ba Restaurant, located in a pale-blue storefront at the corner of York Boulevard and Avenue 51, opened on a limited basis but plans to expand those hours soon, chef owner James Graham told Patch. The narrow [...]

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    Storefront Report: Highland Park to say goodbye to Little Cave and ¡Hola! to La Cuevita

    The  Highland Park tavern known as Little Cave is undergoing a transformation, with the owners stocking up on tequila and agave based drinks and renaming  the place “La Cuevita” in time for a Cinco de Mayo opening.  A spokeswoman for the 1933 Group, which owns Big Foot Lodge in Atwater Village and The Thirsty Crow [...]

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    Storefront Report: Pioneering Echo Park coffee house changes ownership

    The Downbeat Cafe opened more than a decade ago in an Alvarado Street storefront as the first of many coffeehouses that popped up across Echo Park.  As new competitors opened across the neighborhood, The Downbeat  continued to brew coffee but began to look a bit tattered and started closing on Sundays.  But in February, new [...]

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    Record Store Day leaves Eastside music lovers spinning with anticipation *

    Saturday morning will find many record fans descending  on their favorite independent music stores to pick  up new vinyl and CD releases timed to take advantage of Record Store Day.  The Eastside has emerged as a vinyl record shopping zone, with shops from Echo Park and Silver Lake to Eagle Rock and Highland Park  planning [...]

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    Stock up on patience before entering the Super King parking lot

    When it comes to shopping for fresh produce and hard-to-find items, Joshua Siegel, the chef at  The Park restaurant in Echo Park, skips the farmers markets and heads directly to Super King, the Glassell Park supermarket stockpiled with all manner of Middle Eastern products and fresh produce.  But before you can get inside the San [...]

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    Storefront Report: Echo Park vintage tile store prepares to pack up*

    There will be much packing and wrapping going on at Wells Tile & Antiques in upcoming weeks as the Echo Park shop prepares to move thousands of pieces of vintage tile and antique ceramics after its Sunset Boulevard storefront was put up for sale. Owner Scott Wells said he is in the process of finding [...]

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    Silver Lake diner makes room for fine-dining pop up

    By Valentina Silva Millie’s has gone fine dining. Well, sort of. Alma, a pop-up concept by Chef Ari Taymor and Front-of-the-House manager Dinelle Lucchesi, has taken over the Silver Lake diner after hours on Thursday through Sunday. My advice: go. For $55, you get around six courses, plus a few extras—each more inventive than the [...]

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    Storefront Report: New Silver Lake coffeehouse prepares to open

    The signs outside a Silver Lake strip mall still say Box & Ship and Silverlake Cleaners but inside a new  coffeehouse and restaurant is in the works. Modern Eats plans to open in a few weeks in a building on Glendale Boulevard near Fletcher Drive that houses a Subway sandwich shop and a laundry (Anyone [...]

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    Why wait for dessert to enjoy an Eagle Rock cream puff?

    By Valentina Silva Uh, what just happened? All I know is that my friend Mari came over with a pink box from Ruby Bakery in Eagle Rock. Inside, were two plump and precious cream puffs. When I laid eyes on them, I told myself  I’d just take a bite and save the rest for after dinner. [...]

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    The high price of York Boulevard

    The sale of the former Verdugo Pet shop on  York Boulevard and what kind of tenant will move into the Highland Park storefront has generated  a lot of attention on The Eastsider as well as Patch, with readers making their case for everything from an Indian restaurant to an art supply shop.  It’s still not [...]

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    The Abe Lincoln Story brings its musical mash up to Echo Park Soul/Punk/Swing

    For those who love to hear soul, punk and swing music, here’s a band that will cover all your musical bases during the same show. The 10-piece Abe Lincoln Story will return to Taix restaurant in Echo Park this week for the first in a series of shows to take place on the Friday of [...]

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    Echo Park’s taco lovers can’t wait for the weekend and Bellevue Steakhouse to arrive

    A few feet away from the Echo Park Avenue exit off the 101 Freeway, the aroma of grilled carna asada and pungent chorizo filled the Friday night air near a blue canopy propped up against a chain link fence that runs along Bellevue Avenue. The roar of the freeway coming from the other side of [...]

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    Eastside Shopper & Diner Report

    Pulled pork, hot links, coconut beef and corned break now serving at The Park’s Finest in Echo Park.  Echo Park Now Jonathan Gold samples the pork belly tacos, longaniza hash and sweet-fleshed chop at Silver Lake’s new Black Hogg.  Churros, too. Daily Dish Resale, recycle and swap shop for apparel, shoes & jewelry opens in [...]

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    Will Silver Lake’s Black Cat come back?

    The “Le Barcito” sign has come down from the front of  Silver Lake’s former Gay Latino bar  as the new owners build a new bar and restaurant inside.  While the new owners operate the Village Idiot on Melrose Avenue,  there are indications that they may not simply repeat the Village Idiot name in Silver Lake [...]

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    PETA seeking more Echo Park real estate

    Less than three months after moving into its new West Coast headquarters in Echo Park, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is planning to purchase a neighboring building that is the long-time home to Wells Tile & Antiques, one of the city’s leading purveyors of rare and pricy vintage tile and pottery.  It’s [...]

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    Echo Park checks out the new Chango

    Echo Park’s landmark Chango Coffee reopened this morning after a week-long makeover.  The menu and coffee  remain the same as do the the employees behind the counter. But that counter is now a gleaming slab of granite that tops dark wood cabinets. The same  dark  paint covers a new longer, wooden banquette that runs underneath [...]

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