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LA Restaurants and Chefs That Stepped Up for Their Communities in 2020


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 commit ....

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