Jenn Harris

Pasadena

Senior Writer and Columnist at Los Angeles Times

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18 immigrant-founded restaurants in L.A. from our Hall of Fame list

1 week ago | latimes.com | Bill Addison |Jenn Harris

Los Angeles is a melting pot of cultures, and nowhere is that more evident than within our local restaurant industry. Immigrants founded some of the city’s longest-running and most influential restaurants, including a bustling Vietnamese storefront in a San Gabriel strip mall, a legendary Nikkei spot that spawned a global restaurant empire and neighborhood taquerias where customers line up for the same signature item.
Keep that downtown Los Angeles dining reservation. It’s safe to go to dinner

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

It sounded like the alarm for a severe weather warning. At 8:19 p.m. on Monday evening, my phone blared with a public safety alert that a curfew was in place from 10 p.m. to 6 am. in downtown Los Angeles. It came just as I crested the hill on the south 110 Freeway that offers a sweeping view of the city below. I was on my way to meet a friend for dinner at Kinjiro, a snug izakaya in the heart of Little Tokyo.
Review: With the new Vin Folk, Hermosa Beach becomes a culinary destination

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

Vin Folk is the most exciting restaurant to open in the South Bay in recent memory and a shining example of destination neighborhood dining. The staff is young and ambitious, with a menu that spans the globe, spurred by specific “memories” shared at the table. A few dishes, though, get lost in the plot. “Hi, I’m chef Jude.
Pasjoli reopens after temporary closure. Will it be your new favorite neighborhood restaurant?

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. Snoop Dogg went by Snoop Lion for a time, and briefly Snoopzilla. Shifting your brand as an artist can be a welcome, and sometimes predictable, step in a career that spans a lifetime. But what happens when a well-established, award-winning restaurant decides to rebrand itself as a casual neighborhood bistro? And attempts to do it in just two weeks?
How does a 'fancy' L.A. restaurant reopen as casual in just two weeks? A play-by-play

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jenn Harris

Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol. Snoop Dogg went by Snoop Lion for a time, and briefly Snoopzilla. Shifting your brand as an artist can be a welcome, and sometimes predictable, step in a career that spans a lifetime. But what happens when a well-established, award-winning restaurant decides to rebrand itself as a casual neighborhood bistro? And attempts to do it in just two weeks?
It took crossing seven freeways to find my favorite new burgers

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

L.A.’s best new burgers come in a variety of styles, built with mountains of chili and cheese and thick patties. Regardless of your patty preference, there’s an L.A. burger for every diner. Instead of Thousand Island and all its cousins, these burgers are dressed with hot pepper relish, dijonnaise, steak sauce and onion jam. I consumed six burgers in the last seven days. One was wrapped in yellow paper on a restaurant patio in Eagle Rock that felt like a friend’s backyard.
Where to find the best duck preparations in Los Angeles

3 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

The hours of preparation and fuss over the presentation always make duck feel like a celebratory meal. In Los Angeles, you can find whole duck roasted and presented with Thai flavors, smoked duck from Korea and 14-day aged duck with shepherd’s pie. If you see the laborious dish on a restaurant menu, order the duck. “To do duck you have to be really disciplined, like cut out your social life,” says Chartchai Vongsanikul.
These are the closed historic L.A. restaurants that we miss the most

4 weeks ago | latimes.com | Danielle Dorsey |Jenn Harris |Stephanie Breijo |Betty Hallock |Daniel Hernandez

In their soul, everyone has a historic restaurant they miss dearly in Los Angeles. Some fell victim to the mounting challenges that restaurants face in L.A.: gentrification, rising retail rental costs, and a prolonged financial fallout following pandemic closures, Hollywood industry strikes and . Despite their untimely end, the city’s most iconic restaurants have not faded from our collective memory.
Our favorite L.A. restaurants: Gone, but not forgotten

4 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Danielle Dorsey |Jenn Harris |Stephanie Breijo |Betty Hallock |Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández

In their soul, everyone has a historic restaurant they miss dearly in Los Angeles. Some fell victim to the mounting challenges that restaurants face in L.A.: gentrification, rising retail rental costs, and a prolonged financial fallout following pandemic closures, Hollywood industry strikes and the devastating January wildfires. Despite their untimely end, the city's most iconic restaurants have not faded from our collective memory.
Will we lose Thrifty ice cream forever when Rite Aid stores close?

1 month ago | latimes.com | Jenn Harris

It was like a scene from a movie about an asteroid hurtling through the universe on a collision course with Earth. Many of the shelves at the Rite Aid in El Segundo were bare. Row after row empty. The air was thick with an eerie silence as I made my way to the ice cream counter near the registers. A half-empty, three-gallon tub of strawberry ice cream sat next to another of butter pecan.

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