Spanish mackeral sushi and fried backbone at Slow Fish (Brad A. Johnson)
Here’s where to eat now in Los Angeles. From high to low, these are the 10 restaurants I’m most excited about this month. This is not a list of the 10 newest places to open lately. Rather, a few of these spots are brand new. Some are just getting broken in and deserve another look. And one’s pretty old but has a new chef. They’re all fantastic. Continue reading
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Roy Choy, the chef responsible for the Kogi taco craze, and David Reiss, the nightlife guy behind The Brig and Alibi Room, have transformed an old IHOP into AFrame (12565 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, 310.398.7700). I confess I’ve never been a fan of Kogi’s fusion tacos, and I loathe the communal seating concept here at AFrame, but I’m seriously loving every bite of Choy’s new global picnic menu. The idea is to eat as much of the family-style meal as possible—gloriously messy lamb ribs, kettle corn that drips with butter, kaffir lime-spiked peel-and-eat shrimp and deep-fried apple pie—without the aid of utensils. Be prepared to wait up to an hour (they don’t take reservations, and they rarely answer the phone), but it’s sort of worth it.
