L.A.’s new neighborhood food guide
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While Jonathan Gold’s standard in everyman, everyculture food criticism is hard to beat, a group of L.A. food writers is not letting that stop them. Our food blog, the Daily Dish, digs into ‘Eat: Los Angeles,’ which we’ve mentioned here before:
What distinguishes ‘Eat: Los Angeles’ from a host of other L.A. restaurant guides, including Zagat and Gayot, is its emphasis on mom-and-pop restaurants, specialty stores, hole-in-the-wall coffee shops, caterers, street food and juice bars. There’s also its wealth of write-ups on L.A.’s most ubiquitous dining option, the taco truck. ‘It’s a food book, not just a restaurant book,’ says Bates. ‘What people really want to know about is not the chi-chi hot new restaurant, but the bakery and cheese shop and taco truck. No one had really done that before.’
Read more about the book here. The authors of ‘Eat: Los Angeles’ will be at the new bookstore-cafe Stories in Echo Park tonight at 7p.m. Go for the book, stay for the hummus. Or is it the other way around?
-- Carolyn Kellogg
Cheese photo: Studio City’s Artisan Cheese Gallery
