Stephanie Breijo

3 days ago | latimes.com | Stephanie Breijo

The Sunset Strip restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine and dim sum will close in late July. Chin Chin’s shuttering is the latest in a string of West Hollywood restaurant closures that also includes Le Petit Four, another Sunset Plaza resident. One of L.A.’s most iconic Chinese American restaurants will close next month, ending nearly a half-century of Chinese chicken salads, dumplings and pan-fried noodles in West Hollywood’s Sunset Plaza.

5 days ago | latimes.com | Stephanie Breijo

Just over a decade ago, Sharon Brenner moved to Athens and became enamored with the flavors and fragrances of Greece, the allure of fried dough drizzled with honey, the communal joys of sharing meze in a taverna late into the evening. The immigration attorney and food writer, now based back in Los Angeles, has written three self-published cookbooks to help share and recreate some of her experiences there. “I felt like this country gave me so much, I really fell in love with it,” she said.

1 week 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.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Stephanie Breijo

Downtown L.A. Sweets shop Call Route Website Seiichi Kito opened Fugetsu-Do in Little Tokyo more than 120 years ago, and his grandson, Brian Kito, now runs the family’s mochi shop and factory on a historic block of 1st Street. The chewy Japanese confections, made by pounding glutinous rice, come in a rainbow of pastel colors (including Dodgers light blue) and have various fillings, such as sweet red bean paste or peanut butter.

1 week 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.