‘EAT: Los Angeles 2010’ hits the shelves soon
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Finding not just good food but the right food for the moment in this sprawling multicultural city can be enough work to make me stay home and eat oatmeal for dinner. Or go to the same spot over and over. So I, for one, am happy that ‘EAT:Los Angeles 2010’ is scheduled to hit stores Dec. 1. The second edition of the guide has more than 1,200 listings, from food trucks to fancy restaurants, all over the city, with 250 new listings. ‘I really was surprised that we had more new places than had closed,’ says editor Colleen Dunn Bates.
The 2010 guide also has a new section of a dozen tours of top food-loving neighborhoods such as Little India, Abbott Kinney Boulevard and Boyle Heights. The book was written by a group of food writers, including Linda Burum, an expert on international foods who writes for The Times; Amelia Saltsman, author of the ‘Santa Monica Farmers Market Cookbook’; and Pat Saperstein of Eating L.A.
Bates says there’s been an increase in neighborhood gourmet markets such as the Larchmont Larder and the Oaks in Hollywood. She also took note of the food trucks trolling the city, found via blogs and tweets. While ‘EAT: Los Angeles’ includes some of them, she says they’re not so easy to keep track of.
-- Mary MacVean
