Hadley Tomicki

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By Hadley Tomicki for L.A. TacoOriginally published on Feb. 11, 2025Eat around Los Angeles long enough, and you’d unlikely be surprised by a concept that merges Mediterranean influences with Mexican cooking. We can count at least five places serving falafel tacos in town and see our sidewalks filling up with nearly as many shawarma stands and smoky kebabs as we do taco trucks these days.

1 month ago | lataco.com | Hadley Tomicki

Disgusted at Kanye West and his sustained embrace of Nazism and Adolf Hitler? There's a party planned in Los Angeles this weekend where you can unleash your revulsion, shedding some of your old Kanye gear in the process in exchange for a trophy. A "Kanye Sucks" party is going down this Saturday night at Revenge Of, a comic book and pinball destination in Glassell Park known for its frequent events and gatherings.

1 month ago | lataco.com | Hadley Tomicki

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, known for the happy, colorful canvases, sculptures, and toys that collectively comprise his "Superflat" movement, is now adorning a limited collection of Dodgers gear with the anime, cartoon, and manga-inspired flowers common in his pieces. We're willing to bet you've seen Murakami's work before; likely on the cover of Kanye's Graduation album, Kid Cudi's Kid Sees Ghosts, smiling from a Vuitton handbag, or hanging on the walls of The Broad museum.

1 month ago | lataco.com | Hadley Tomicki

Making a worthy burger depends on architecture as much as it does on great ingredients. You can throw all the Prime short rib and Epoisses you want over feathery brioche buns made in a local oven. If it all falls apart in a basin of grease and bread by the second bite, your esteem for the consistent engineering at In-N-Out is sure to double-double. Burger structure is a subject that Maria and Armen Khoudoian, owners of The Mouth in Burbank, have spent months studying.

1 month ago | lataco.com | Hadley Tomicki

Shawarma spins on our sidewalks. Al Pastor pirouettes over our curbs. Freeways corkscrew in concrete cyclones. Los Angeles is nothing if not a trompo town. Döner, the majestic progenitor of vertically roasted meats, has just entered this thunderdome, raised to an art form at Döner Corner. The Turkish food perfectionist opened two months ago where Wilshire splits the northern reaches of Sawtelle from Brentwood in the space that once housed the still-mourned Belle Vie.