Grand Central Market

Now Open: G&B Coffee at Grand Central Market

G&B Coffee officially opened last week at Grand Central Market, a sizeable stand that greets you if you enter from the Hill Street side of the market, maybe fresh off a ride down Angels Flight, maybe on your way to a courthouse to fulfill your duties as a juror, or, arguably worse, a lawyer. In eith ... More >>

Where to Eat Lunch When You Have Jury Duty in Downtown L.A.

When it comes to proximity to good food, not all court locations are equal. If you're lucky (well, relatively so), you'll be assigned to Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on Temple Street the next time you receive a summons calling you to your civic duty. It's adjacent to the new-ish Gr ... More >>

Grand Central Market Update: 4 New Arrivals

Downtown's Grand Central Market is getting a makeover. With nearly 100 years of existence, the 27,000-square-foot open-air bazaar has long been a Los Angeles landmark, and planners have been spearheading a major revamp by inviting in dozens of new vendors to refresh the 40 food stalls. Sticky Rice, ... More >>

Sticky Rice in Grand Central Market Holds Grand Opening Today

The planned overhaul of Grand Central Market isn't particularly visible as of yet. It's currently undergoing a cleaning at night when the market is closed, but for the most part it remains lovably shabby, and many of the food stalls are empty.

10 Best Places To Eat Carnitas in Los Angeles

In many parts of Mexico, the pig is king. From fried skin to chopped ears to ground chorizo, puerco is the carne of choice for millions of Mexicans every day. And, as our southerly sister nation goes, so too do the culinary interests of Los Angeles. We are a city that loves its carnitas, the long- ... More >>

Sticky Rice Opens at Grand Central Market What Else is Coming

The Grand Central Market has been getting a major makeover: a fresh coat of paint, polished floors, WiFi, power outlets and new vendors. "We have empty stalls and we are trying to fill them with new flavors, new cuisines and new tastes," Christophe Farber, the director of business development for th ... More >>

Q & A With Southland's Mike Haro: Adobo Scouting, Where Cops Really Eat Manuel's Special Burrito

When it comes to knowing Los Angeles' food mainstays, those who are visiting for the first time could do themselves a big favor by studying episodes of TNT's Southland (which also happens to be the best cop show on television). There are a handful of main characters on this Peabody-award winning ens ... More >>

Wild Life Street Art Points To Hipsters, Gentrification Via Downtown L.A. Street Signs

Update: Despite our afternoon note yesterday that the art had been taken down, we found one piece that's still up. Photo at the very bottom. First posted at 2:25 p.m. Thursday. If you need help finding a hipster in downtown Los Angeles just spit and you'll hit one. Just in case however, with tongu ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: The Whole Menu

Over the past few months, you've watched us catalog our 100 Favorite Dishes. Catalog being a lovely term meaning eating our way across this town, well, even more than usual. And because we thought you might want a better way to access these, we've collected all one hundred into one piece, a menu if ... More >>

52: House Wonton Soup at China Café

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 52: House Wonton Soup at China Café. In a city so stocked with brilliant Chinese food, it might to seem a bit strange to point out a '20s-era lunch counter hi ... More >>

10 Best Pupusas in Los Angeles

Pupusa are cheap and cheerful, exceptionally hearty, stuffed and griddled disks of slaked cornmeal or rice flour that originated in El Salvador. They invariably cost less than $3 in even the most stylish restaurants, and are most likely available somewhere near you. We learned three very important ... More >>

Pop Quiz: What's Your Picnic Style?

Picnics are one of those civic birthrights that redeems living with traffic snarls on the 405 and celebrity divorces superseding the one minute of world event coverage on the evening news. The very bones of the tradition forged by myriad outdoor spaces, summer events, and consistently genial weather ... More >>

Mario Alberto's Laurel Hardware Now Open in West Hollywood Brunch Starts Tomorrow

Towards the end of its 62-year run in West Hollywood, Laurel Hardware was known for its personal service, old-fashioned charm, and loyal community patrons. When it closed in 2008, the city welcomed it into the Pop-Up Art program, and a vacant Laurel Hardware hosted Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre's "A G ... More >>

15 Great Peruvian Restaurants in Los Angeles

You won't find "Perutown" or "Little Lima" in Los Angeles. The Peruvian and Peruvian-American population is spread out around greater L.A., and so are our Peruvian restaurants. So maybe you haven't noticed these eateries -- often small and unassuming spots, tucked in strip malls far from trendy rest ... More >>

Takatis Pollo a la Brasa: Sanguchon in the San Fernando Valley

If you wanted to rank L.A. courthouses by approximate distances to good food -- places to console your stomach before or after, say, dealing with a moving violation or outstanding warrant -- the monolithic Superior Court building in Van Nuys would easily rank near the top. Where else could a jury du ... More >>

Sneak Peak: Red Hill Opening This Week [Photo Gallery]

It's hard to have a stealth opening with wraparound windows, but look closely and you should see Echo Park's Red Hill opening in the next few days, possibly as soon as tomorrow. When we first reported on Red Hill back in April, it was one of two restaurants Jason Michaud (owner of Local) was planni ... More >>

Red Hill Opening Soon Local Express and Flander's Frites Serve Breakfast

D. SolomonLocal Express and Flander's Frites at the Grand Central Market courtyard.​When we spoke to Local's Jason Michaud in October, he was reluctantly shuttering the windows at Chimú, Grand Central Market's Peruvian eatery. (Michaud was a co-owner along with chef Mario Alberto.) Now, Mich ... More >>

Jason Michaud's Local Express to Replace Chimu; Red Hill to Open Dec. 1

Guzzle & NoshDiners at chimu.​Downtowners who had flocked to Peruvian eatery Chimú to sit on the sun-splattered patio and dine on pollo a la brasa were saddened to learn of Chimú's closing last weekend. Beginning Monday, the space next to the Grand Central Market will once again serve lunch, ... More >>

Chimu, Mario Alberto's Peruvian Eatery, Closes

D. SolomonLast weekend's Chimú blackboard, drawn by Nicholas Knudson.​ A chalkboard drawing of a wild-eyed creature pedaling away on a bicycle greeted Chimú visitors on Sunday, along with the word "FAREWELL." Chimú has closed its doors, or rather, its take-out windows, which served up s ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Picca

At Ricardo Zarate's restaurant, Peruvian meets the Japanese izakaya

Jonathan Gold Reviews Chimu

A Taste of Tunisia Brings Brik to Malibu, Downtown Art Walk & L.A. Street Food Fest

J. Ritz​ Playdate foods for adults and kids typically involve carrot sticks, graham crackers, chips, juice and the like. Things in Yosr Daoud's household, however, are more exciting than that. It was over a plate of traditional Tunisian brik that Daoud prepared for fellow mom and friend Lisa M ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Mikawaya (Day 6)

For all its variegated culinary charms, there's one thing downtown Los Angeles, with its ramen and sushi and burgers and coffee and cupcakes and cocktails, doesn't have much of: ice cream. Sure, you can find a couple ho-hum ice cream stands in the Grand Central Market. Syrup Desserts at 6th and Sp ... More >>

Meet Your Restaurateur: Jason Michaud of Local (Chimú Opens Monday)

Graphic by Samrod Shenassa.​The latest installment in our sporadic series about life behind the kitchen door features Jason Michaud, the 39-year-old owner of Local. At his two-and-a-half-year-old Silver Lake cafe, he is committed not just to local produce and sustainable environmental practice ... More >>

Local's Jason Michaud to Open 2 New Restaurants: Chimú & Red Hill

Guzzle & NoshChimu, slated to open next to the Grand Central Market in downtown LA.​Jason Michaud doesn't do things by half-measures. Deep into the arduous and expensive process of securing a liquor license for Local, his two-and-a-half-year-old Silver Lake cafe, he's opening two new restauran ... More >>

Eat Your Basil: In a Pupusa at Sarita's Pupuseria

B. HansenSarita's basil pupusa​It's spring, time to plant basil in the yard or to eat it where you wouldn't expect to find it -- at a Salvadoran pupuseria. Fresh basil and mozzarella pupusas are a specialty of Sarita's Pupuseria in the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles (they're loca ... More >>

Taking Requests: Two Bits Market in Downtown

D. GonzalezA bustling Two Bits Market​ There is a paradox to opening nights. For the restaurateur, it is the culmination of months of planning, certifications and practice. Yet for an opening night to be successful, all efforts put forth by the restaurateur should appear effortless to the din ... More >>

The Pick-Up Artist

The heel's guide to L.A. tail: 1974's America's Best Pick Up Spots!

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. America's Best Pick Up Spots! Author:Eric Weber & M. Rob Frazier Date: 1974 Publisher: Eric Weber Press, Tenafl ... More >>

The $2 Taco Returns, and It's Korean

Barbara HansenDakgoki, a Korean style chicken taco at the Grand Central Market​The $2 taco is back at the Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles. In 2008, the price went up to $2.50 at the three main taco purveyors there, Tacos Tumbras a Tomas, Ana Maria and Roast to Go. But in Decemb ... More >>

Q & A With Marcus Samuelsson: His New Book, Cooking as Prozac, & Why We Should Eat Pickled Herring Hot Dogs

AmazonMarcus Samuelsson's New American Table​Chef and cookbook author Marcus Samuelsson, born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden, calls New York City home, not Los Angeles. Although he does come to town often, to check in on his burger operation at South Coast Plaza's Signature Kitchen at Macy's ... More >>

Brainy Tacos

Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Ask Mr. Gold: Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: I was wondering if you have any recommendations for tacos de sesos in Echo Park or surrounding neighborhoods. It seems brains are more difficult to come by than they were in the past. --Nicole, Echo Park Dear Nicole: Sesos aren't ... More >>

Tacos Tumbras a Tomas: You Can Never Have Too Much Goat

Photo Credit: Todd PorterWork your way along the sawdust-strewn walkways in downtown's Grand Central Market, past stalls selling dried chiles and fresh mangoes, fresh seafood and stacks of tortillas, to where you will find Tacos Tumbras A Tomas (a play on words meaning "You Get Used to Tomas") again ... More >>

Praise Cheeses: Jimmy Shaw's Loteria Grill Spices Up Hollywood

The latest of L.A.'s hip Mexican restaurants, where the food is as good as the scene

Soul and the City: Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles

A "lost" classic makes its long overdue theatrical debut

The Jig Is Up, Tracey Ullman!

What to do in L.A., April 25-May 1

Yung Love at China Cafe

Looking for an eggy egg foo yung

Absolutely Nothing About St. Patrick's Day

The Man in the Green Shirt

Nueva York

Ask Mr. Gold

She Had To Stay

Exene Cervenka and Original Sinners, burning in L.A.

Doing the Medici

Imagine world peace; then imagine Central City as the new San Marino

Yo Quiero Tacos

Yeah. Drop the chalupa.

The Living-on-the-Edge Ordinance

This county ordains a living wage for some, instead of for all

Outdoor drinking in L.A.

Turning Back the Clock

The Weekly has reached a new high in its reputation for muckraking with the recent criticism of Ira Yellin and the Grand Central Market restoration ["Grand Central Stalemate," March 27–April 2].

Grand Central Stalemate

Is Ira Yellin killing the market in order to save it?

Creme Brulee

And the sweetness of selling out