Some restaurant owners can’t wait for a visit and review from the L.A. Times’ Jonathan Gold. Others may wish that the Pulitizer Prize-winning critic had never shown up. The latter might be the case for the owners of Cortez, the Spanish and Mediterranean-inspired that opened in ... Read More »
View Larger Map It was last September when Nicole Daddio unveiled a new look and strategy for her Echo Park wine bar, City Sip. In a bid to capture a larger share of the young crowds packing into newer places like Mohawk Bend and Red Hill, ... Read More »
Grilled, gooey goodness with a side of salad and tomato soup. Photo by Valentina Silva By Valentina Silva Fact: grilled cheese, as with pancakes and steak, always tastes better when someone else makes it. Heywood, the newish grilled cheese shop in Silver Lake, has ambitiously taken ... Read More »
Customers line up at opening night at Guisados. Photo by Dakota Smith Mariachis performed in the parking lot as diners packed into the spare, white dining room of Guisados’ new Echo Park restaurant, which had a soft opening on Wednesday night. The Echo Park outlet marks ... Read More »
After 20 years of working the bar at Little Joy in Echo Park, Gloria Ramirez decided to start her own restaurant after the bar recently changed ownership. Her bar customers won’t have to travel very far to patronize Ramirez’ new restaurant; it’s located right next door ... Read More »
The vegetarian-friendly Hott Hippie at Dave’s Chillin-N-Grillin. Photo by Valentina Silva By Valentina Silva Order one thing to pig out on and one (relatively) sensible thing, then split both. That’s the way my husband and I usually navigate menus. This best-of-both world’s tactic works well at ... Read More »
The compact Taza of Echo Park opened last weekend on Sunset Boulevard. Micro Brew: Besides a sweet and smooth Horchata Latte, perhaps the most notable thing about the new Taza of Echo Park cafe is it’s size; the one-room operation fits into 15-foot wide square. But ... Read More »
Some locations attract restaurants that remain in business for decades. But restaurant turnover is much higher in some locations, with new eateries coming and going in only a few years or even just months. That’s the case in a pair of spots in Echo Park and ... Read More »
Only a year after nightclub owner Steve Edelson took over Los Globos, the Sunset Boulevard club has been turned into Silver Lake’s new nighttime hot spot, with hundreds packing the dance floors and bars inside the two-story building. But Los Globos is not so popular with ... Read More »
The city’s Recreation and Parks Department is poised to start looking for someone to operate a cafe at the newly renovated Echo Park Lake boathouse. But, in this case, the ideal candidate would need to be ready to run more than just a kitchen. He or ... Read More »