Personalities
Andrew Kirschner
602 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-587-0700
In his premiere stint as chef-owner, Kirschner has harnessed the power of a wood-fired oven to reveal new dimensions in familiar ingredients…
Website: http://tarandroses.com/
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Bryant Ng
114 S. Central Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90012
213-620-1840
Initially the Mozza-with-lemongrass notion seemed a reach, but Ng has continued to expand on an idea in which a custom wood-burning grill (modeled after a street vendor’s charcoal box)…
Website: http://www.thespicetable.com/
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Craig Thornton
His Wolvesmouth underground happenings are less supper club and more dinner party as performance art…
Website: http://wolvesmouth.com/wolvesmouth
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Daniel Mattern & Roxana Jullapat
8009 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90048
323-653-8009
The husband-and-wife team—formerly of Ammo—reminds us why the farm-to-table ethos is nearly compulsory these days…
Website: http://www.cookscountyrestaurant.com/Home.html
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Personalities, Professionals
David Féau
1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 91106
626-585-6410
Experimenting with slow-cooked herb broths, broad-minded enough to deglaze mustard-laced rabbit with sake, ever aware of seasonality…
Website: http://www.thediningroom-langham.com/
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Ernesto Uchimura
1800 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025
310-288-6500
The former Umami Burger executive chef has shown he’s no one-trick toque, devising quirky classics we suddenly can’t do without…
Website: http://www.plancheckbar.com/
Neighborhood: West Los Angeles
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Gary T. Menes
128 east 6th street, Los Angeles, CA, 90014
Almost instantly after it launched, the semi permanent pop-up became famous for Menes’s bravura execution of deceptively simple vegetable dishes…
Website: http://www.lecomptoirla.com/
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Govind Armstrong
3767 Santa Rosalia Dr, Los Angeles, CA, 90008
323-299-5599
Deviled eggs crowned with smoked catfish, sophisticated pizzas baked with house-made dough, the juiciest chicken to come out of a cast-iron pan…
Website: http://postandbeamla.com/
Neighborhood: Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Jon Shook & Vinny Dotolo
8370 W. 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA, 90048
323-782-9033
In the time since they opened Animal four years ago, the dudes who pioneered the bacon chocolate bar have progressed—a lot…
Website: http://www.sonofagunrestaurant.com/
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Josef Centeno
408 S. Main St, Los Angeles, CA, 90013
213-687-8808
Every time we think that the former Lazy Ox, Lot 1, and Opus chef has given us his all, he comes up with something even better…
Website: http://www.bacomercat.com/
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Josiah Citrin
1104 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-395-0881
A necessary link between the mustachioed and the tatted generations, this graduate of SaMo High credits a dish of scallops with lime at City Café in the early ’80s as his teenage epiphany…
Website: http://melisse.com/
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Kris Yenbamroong
9041 W. Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90069
310-275-9724
The Sunset Strip is quite possibly the last place we’d look for hyper-regional Thai street food…
Website: http://www.nightmarketla.com/
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Micah Wexler
401 N. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90048
310-657-4103
Officially Mezze serves “modern Mediterranean” cuisine: plump, glistening pearls of Israeli couscous with sea urchin, braised tripe with crisp falafel, shakshouka with sweetbreads and yogurt…
Website: http://www.mezzela.com/
Neighborhood: West Hollywood
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Michael Voltaggio
8360 melrose ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90069
323-651-5866
It’s been just over a year since the Top Chef winner debuted his restaurant, which is also his first foray into helming his own ship…
Website: http://mvink.com/
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Ricardo Diaz
12706 Philadelphia St, Los Angeles, CA, 90602
562-945-2426
In the past few years Diaz and his business partner, Armanda De La Torre, have been behind some of the city’s most exciting Mexican restaurants…
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Ricardo Zarate
9575 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90035
310-277-0133
Early on, much of Zarate’s charm stemmed from the humbleness of Mo-Chica, his Peruvian stall at South L.A.’s Mercado La Paloma…
Website: http://www.piccaperu.com/
Neighborhood: Pico-Robertson
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Roy Choi
12565 Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90066
310-398-7700
The food world took a collective gasp when the Kogi King blogged in April that he might be turning vegetarian…
Website: http://aframela.com/new/
Neighborhood: Culver City
Category: Personalities, Professionals
Steve Samson & Zach Pollack
9575 W. Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90035
310-277-0210
Los Angeles isn’t wanting for great Italian restaurants, but most of them paint Italy’s food with broad strokes…
Website: http://www.sottorestaurant.com/
Neighborhood: Pico-Robertson
Category: Personalities, Professionals
