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Mangette serves up sharp French fare including a mean fried fish sandwich

Stationed in Long Beach’s popular Belmont Shore, L’Antica is the third SoCal location for the famous Naples restaurant

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Ashley Randall Photography It’s shaping up to be a whole new summer at Hatchet Hall, one of the greater Westside’s most popular dining spots. The Southern-inspired restaurant would have been celebrating its six-year anniversary under the stewardship of chef Brian Dunsmoor this summer, but instead, he’s moving on for new projects further east — and that means a new chef for the star spot at 12517 Washington Boulevard in Culver City. First up, the newcomer for Hatchet Hall is none other ...

L.A.s Hottest Dining Scene Is Now Outside of the City Krista Simmons Perhaps no city is more suited to day tripping than Los Angeles, a town that lives and dies by its obsessive car culture. So it seems only natural that during lockdown, when something as simple as a trip to the bottle shop is an event worth dressing up for, Angelenos are taking to their cars to satisfy a need for diversion. In a time when drive-through holiday parades and car concerts are de rigueur, destinati...

Print A takeout window seems an apt location to begin thinking through some of the Los Angeles restaurants that managed not only to open in 2020, but also to enrich the city’s culture with creative achievement and personal narrative. This carryout setup operates from the quiet interior courtyard of Chinatown’s Mandarin Plaza, its mustard-colored façade embellished with a lone ribbon of red neon. Out of its sliding-glass panes appear outlandish sandwiches devised by one of the city’s defi...

This year, our annual compendium of dining debuts looks very different. There’s no talk of buzzy scenes, dazzling design, and intricate plating. Instead, it’s takeout, shifting business models, and struggles to survive. We’ve lost loved ones and beloved businesses, but amidst the devastation and heartbreak of the past year, one thing that’s remained constant is the power of restaurants to comfort, to bring us together, even when we’re only able to order delivery and gather with the me...