One of LA’s Best Pie Shops Scores a Big, Sunny New Santa Monica Home
Plus, Chicas Tacos has a new location, support for Spoon by H, and the NY Times talks LA’s birria scene
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Winston Pies has secured a new location in Santa Monica, with plans to formalize its new facility on Ocean Avenue sometime in early March. Owner Brianna Abrams’ popular pie shop, which first opened in Brentwood in 2017 before expanding to West Third Street, is taking over the long-dormant former Joan’s on Third offshoot at 1705 Ocean Avenue, and will use the much larger facility to expand its customer base and delivery range, and to greatly grow its production volume and nationwide shipping.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/08/dining/birria-recipes.html
Food trends come and go, but a bowl of birria with warm corn tortillas will never lose its appeal.Credit.David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Maggie Ruggiero.
The Birria Boom Is Complicated, but Simply Delicious
With infinite variations, the regional Mexican stew is now a TikTok and Instagram star in Los Angeles and beyond.
Food trends come and go, but a bowl of birria with warm corn tortillas will never lose its appeal.Credit.David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Maggie Ruggiero.
LOS ANGELES You go to Birrieria Nochistlán for the Moreno family’s Zacatecan-style birria a big bowl of hot goat meat submerged in a dark pool of its own concentrated cooking juices.
Here’s where to order to-go nonalcoholic drinks for Dry January (and beyond)
Going dry? Wet your whistle with these mocktails, local NA craft beers and beyond.
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Whether you’re always on the hunt for great booze-free drinks or you’re simply giving your liver a break after a year of drinking heavily 2020 was tough on all of us, no judgment some of L.A.’s best bars are making it easy to have a dry January.
Last year was unsustainable for so many of the city’s favorite cocktail bars, and while many of our favorite go-to spots for alcohol-free cocktails and creative sippers are either closed or not offering their full menus, a number of spots across town still have you covered, whether you’re looking for nonalcoholic local craft beer, some of the city’s best sodas, or a gin-less cocktail from one of L.A.’s top gin bars. Here’s where to find alcohol-free drinks this January.
LA Restaurants and Chefs That Stepped Up for Their Communities in 2020
Restaurants were an essential part of helping communities this past year
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2020 will be the year that upended the restaurant industry. It’s difficult to talk about the year in review when everything changed, when people and businesses suffered during the pandemic. In light of the challenging year for everyone in Los Angeles, we asked food writers and industry folks about restaurants they thought stepped up for their communities and stakeholders.
Mona Holmes, Eater LA Reporter
Post & Beam’s chef/owner John Cleveland and numerous South LA restaurants worked with Councilman Marqueece Harris Dawson to prepare meals for seniors from March until June. The program ended June 12, but Clevelend extended the program by fundraising within the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw community. I can’t think of another restaurant so committed to its community