A relaxed, butter-yellow space in Glendale's car-dealer district, Palate is a fever dream of a restaurant, a dining room flowing into a cocktail lounge, a wine bar, laboratories for curing meats and aging cheeses and a well-curated wine shop that serves as a venue for some of the world's best DJs on Sunday afternoons. (Cut Chemist and goat tacos? Yes, please.) Palate, which occupies the ground floor of a huge wine-storage building, is intensely personal, and an evening there can feel a lot like stopping by a friend's house and having him show you some cool things he just picked up: lamb from the eccentric Sonoma farmer Don Watson; butter churned from scratch; or some black-market cardoons. The menu is tiny, and seems even shorter than it looks — chef Octavio Becerra's best dishes are almost deceptively simple, built around an array of precisely... More >>>