This week in L.A. restaurants: Brasserie Mes Amis debuts
Plus, new tapas in Santa Monica, some of L.A.'s best barbecue celebrates all month and more.
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Plus, new tapas in Santa Monica, some of L.A.'s best barbecue celebrates all month and more.
Mining LA’s dining gems to uncover the best bites of the past year
Farley Elliott Flatpoint Barbecue out of Santa Monica got shut down by city officials over the weekend. The street food setup, while partially permitted as a catering operation, does not have license to vend from the street (few vendors actually do, owing to a variety of issues at the county public health level), and they certainly don’t have the proper paperwork to run a Texas-style offset smoker anywhere in Los Angeles County (nobody does). So what’s it all add up to? There’s the $1,000 fine, which is really a $500 violation for not having the proper business permitting, and a second ...