Downtown L.A.’s restaurant renaissance

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Downtown? Until very recently, if you asked someone to meet you for dinner there, it was roughly the equivalent of asking them to join you on the moon. I’ve met people who have never been within shouting distance of the area, even though they’ve lived in L.A. practically all their lives. Time to get over it, because downtown L.A. has blossomed into a bona fide destination with a growing roster of intriguing dining possibilities.

So much, in fact, is happening downtown, restaurant-wise, that it’s difficult for a hardworking critic to keep up. For the first time in decades, the city’s center offers a full array of places to eat at all price levels, with more opening all the time.....

--S. Irene Virbila

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