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Pork Los Angeles

Officine Brera Pork Shank [CLOSED]

A downtown Los Angeles Arts District building from the 1920s that produced gas meters is now home to Officine Brera. Chef Angelo Auriana and business partner Matteo Ferdinandi named this ambitious Italian restaurant with...
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Brewmaster Los Angeles

Interview: head brewer Devon Randall (Arts District Brewing)

Devon Randall is associated with San Diego due to her time at The Lost Abbey and Pizza Port Solana Beach, but she was actually born and raised on L.A.’s Westside in Santa Monica and...
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Craft Beer Los Angeles

Arts District Brewing Busy Bee Honey Golden Ale

Arts District Brewing recently debuted in Crazy Gideon’s former downtown home. The space is like a playground for adults, with skee-ball, ping-pong and darts. A patio hosts jumbo Jenga and cornhole. The brewhouse seamlessly...
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Chef Los Angeles

Interview: chef Ori Menashe (Bestia)

Childhood bode well for Ori Menashe’s culinary development. The up-and-coming chef, who was born in Los Angeles, raised in Israel, and came of age with Gino Angelini restaurants like Angelini Osteria, first started eating...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Handsome Coffee Roasters Strip Away Specialty Coffee Conventions in Downtown L.A.’s Arts District

Most new specialty coffee companies are interested in adding new wrinkles to the coffeebar experience, but Handsome Coffee Roasters co-founders Chris Owens, Michael Phillips and Tyler Wells are more interested in stripping away conventions...
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Restaurant Los Angeles

Cousins Plan to Open Wurstkuche in Los Angeles Arts District

  • Food
  • September 27, 2008
While working on a story about the Lime Café in June, consulting chef Dan Parrott told me about his other assignment in the Los Angeles Arts District: Wurstkuche. Nearly three months later, I finally...
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