Three spectacular pizzerias I hope will stick around
The Patate topped with potatoes, raclette and other cheeses and rosemary from La Morra Pizzeria in Beverly Grove.
(Bill Addison/Los Angeles Times)
Jan. 16, 2021 6 AM PT
“Numbers 22, 26, 24,” calls out one of the staff members at
Elio’s Wood Fire Pizza. She stands at the front of a tent set up in the parking lot of Circle H Markets & Liquor; it’s on the stretch of Sunset Boulevard where Echo Park meets Silver Lake. Boxes filled with pizzas line a table. Two dozen or so masked-up customers stand around the setup. We shift to keep our distance as our numbers are called and we collect our pies.
It’s been almost a full year since the
LA Times first got word on Shiku, the incoming Grand Central Market restaurant from Kwang Uh and Mina Park of Baroo fame. Now the Korean restaurant is ready for its official debut, with an opening slated for Friday, January 15.
In an email to Eater, Park says that Shiku will begin life as a pared-down takeaway focusing on comfort food of a sort, particularly doshirak, or Korean lunch boxes. Each tin will contain three banchan sides and one main item served over rice, like soy-marinated short rib galbi, pork. belly, Korean fried chicken, shiitake mushrooms, and more. Each of those mains can be scaled up to make a family meal with banchan to go, and Shiku will also dip into pantry staples and other home goods as well. A full list of items available at opening, from housemade gochujang and sesame oil to Korean snacks, can be found on the restaurant’s website.
Judge Benjamin Hayes knew the eyes of Los Angeles were on him. In January 1856, the hard-living judge presided over a hearing that would rock Los Angeles, a dusty, dangerous pueblo of approximately 4,000 souls. Out of the hearing would emerge Biddy Mason, a formerly enslaved woman who would become one of the most important and one of the wealthiest landowners, midwives and philanthropists in early-American Los Angeles.
Mason was so beloved that people in need would line up in front of her house on First Street, eager for Aunt Biddy s assistance, which she always gave until she grew too old and infirm. She showed people what could happen when they were free and could set their own destiny, says Jackie Broxton, executive director of the Biddy Mason Charitable Foundation.
Mike Hasson, civic leader and founder of Hasson Co. real estate, dies at 66
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died Dec. 31 from mesothelioma, a cancer that affects the lungs. He was 66.
The Lake Oswego resident, civic leader and former CEO and founder of Hasson Company Realtors was diagnosed 10 years ago with a malignant tumor caused by inhaled asbestos fibers, according to his family.
Hasson, who was a competitive athlete in high school, prepared himself physically and mentally to take on the cancer and defied the one-year prognosis for 10 years, said his brother, Barry Hasson.
“He endured surgeries and treatments without self pity,” said Barry Hasson, a builder, who does not know how his brother was exposed to asbestos. “He won battle after battle but sadly lost the war.”