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1 Eric Tjahyadi believes an incredible experience at a great restaurant comes from a place of love, hope and the energy of the entire team — combined. The team needed all that energy to deal with a 10 p.m. curfew that was in place until outdoor dining was shut down. “We’re all connected in a way,” he said. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Eric Tjahyadi, his brother and chef Erwin Tjahyadi, and their father, Tjhing Sen, have learned a few things about switching it up in the last few...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A close-up look at how hard it is to keep a little family restaurant going in a pandemic [Los Angeles Times] Remember those days when you would walk into the restaurant and every seat up front at the bar would be taken and there’d be just a narrow aisle between the crowd at the bar and the one at the long communal table, and the wait staff carrying hot broth would have to shimmy through it, trying not to spill as they served? So reminisced the employees now workin...

Print Remember those days when you would walk into the restaurant and every seat up front at the bar would be taken and there’d be just a narrow aisle between the crowd at the bar and the one at the long communal table, and the wait staff carrying hot broth would have to shimmy through it, trying not to spill as they served? So reminisced the employees now working shortened hours at Bone Kettle in Pasadena about the time before COVID-19. Before the little family-owned restaurant on Raymond A...