![]() ![]() They’re cooking with fire, sometimes literally (as with Australian chef Curtis Stone’s asador-powered hotspot Gwen) and always figuratively. To many observers, Los Angeles is now where the foodie action is - a raging hot tub of great new restaurants, cutting-edge chefs and new styles of food, all influenced by Southern California’s intersectional ethnic culture. Hear that, San Francisco and the Bay Area? Your time sitting smugly atop the Golden State gastronomic throne has run out. “It’s really amazing actually, the last year and a half, what’s happened in Los Angeles.” because people are hungry and they want to experience creative and delicious food,” he says. Sobel now splits his time between the two cities. is the hottest food city in the country right now,” says Adam Sobel, a San Francisco chef who, along with his mentor, Michael Mina, opened Cal Mare in L.A.’s sprawling Beverly Center mall last November. “I feel like in the last six years it’s been percolating, and now just in the last two years, it’s really celebrated,” Arrington says of the L.A. Just a few years ago, Arrington says, Los Angeles “wasn’t a dining destination.” With some high-end and ethnic exceptions, the food scene was a bit safe and maybe a little stiff.īut Arrington and others say that in the past couple of years, the food center of California has been moving south. Arrington is the embodiment of this heady mix: She’s half Korean and half African-American, and the kimchi latkes are a nod to her Korean grandmother. With its world-wise mix of Asian, Latin and soul food flavors, Native’s menu is exactly what Los Angeles tastes like right now. The wildly diverse menu at Native is emblematic of the variety in the exploding food scene in Los Angeles, where an ethnic and culinary melting pot is bringing forth some of the country’s most creative and magically delicious food. At dinner, the menu becomes even more eclectic, with kombu-scented potatoes, Korean gochujang-glazed pork chops and deep-fried chocolate, a rather elegant version of a Mexican churro featuring candied Serrano pepper. Diners can fill their brunch table with a rainbow of California fruit, syrup sandwiches (a French toast remix inspired by Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar’s hit “Humble”) and hearty kimchi latkes, a piquant take on classic Jewish potato pancakes. The menu at Santa Monica’s oh-so-busy Native Restaurant is a multicultural mix. ![]()
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