Lavo
The workforce behind Tao, Magnificence & Essex and the Spotlight Room opened a brand new coastal Italian, indoor-outdoor restaurant on the Sundown Strip this week. Lavo Ristorante is a sibling idea to Italian restaurant Lavo — which Tao Group Hospitality operates in New York Metropolis, Las Vegas and Singapore — and is serving red-prawn crudo, veal Marsala, recent pasta, fritto misto, a 1-pound meatball, cacio e pepe pizza, handmade burrata and different dishes to diners (there are 250 seats) below a retractable roof. The group’s chief culinary officer, Ralph Scamardella, oversees the menu. Craig Schoettler (previously of Alinea and the Aviary) designed the bar program with cocktails similar to an Amalfi-inspired gin and tonic (there’s additionally a 230-bottle wine listing). Lavo Ristorante is open from 5 to 11 p.m. Sunday and Tuesday to Thursday, and from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday; brunch service is anticipated to comply with.
9201 Sundown Blvd., Suite 100, West Hollywood, lavoristorante.com
Purple-prawn crudo at Lavo Ristorante.
(Ashley Randall Images / Lavo Ristorante)
Market with Maum
A brand new month-to-month market spotlighting Korean American cooks, bakers and makers is popping up throughout Los Angeles. Maum, a community-minded group that champions native Korean enterprise, is behind the pop-up market, which subsequent seems on March 20 at ERA Studio within the Arts District, adopted by an April 23 occasion at Platform Park in Culver Metropolis. Entry is $5 to the market, which on March 20 options 55 sellers, with practically half of them providing foods and drinks similar to cookies, artisanal soju, espresso, tea, fashionable Korean tapas and quinoa kimbap. For occasion updates comply with @madewithmaum on Instagram.
1919 Bay St., Los Angeles, madewithmaum.com/mar
Cookware and housewares are on supply in addition to foods and drinks on the Maum market, a brand new month-to-month occasion spotlighting Korean cooks, bakers and makers.
(Hyun Lee / Maum)
Fats Tomato Pizza
New York-style pizza chain Fats Tomato is open in Koreatown. The most recent Fats Tomato — which additionally maintains places together with Hermosa Seashore, San Pedro, Marina Del Rey and Lengthy Seashore — affords entire pizzas, by-the-slice choices, salads, pastas and appetizers similar to garlic knots, mozzarella sticks and corn cheese; all sauces and dressings are made in-house. Gluten-free crust and nondairy cheese can be found, as are choices similar to a Caprese-inspired pizza, barbecue rooster pizza and a spinach-laden Popeye’s pie. Fats Tomato in Koreatown is open day by day from 3 p.m. to midnight.
301 S. Western Ave., Unit 104, (213) 277-1900, gofattomato.com
MainRo
Nightclub entrepreneur Romain Zago, of Miami’s Mynt Lounge, simply opened a sprawling restaurant and leisure expertise known as MainRo. The 7,500-square-foot Hollywood spot fills the previous Beso house and affords primarily pan-Asian dishes, together with sushi, stone-cooked Wagyu, caviar service, roast duck, truffle pasta and steaks, accessible at two seatings (6:30-8:30 p.m. and eight:30-10:30 p.m.). Each dinner seatings embrace dwell performances similar to bands and DJs, enjoying out on a stage designed for gentle reveals, surrounded by reflective partitions and chandeliers which can be all a part of the act.
6350 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, (818) 514-4142, mainro.com
MainRo, a brand new Hollywood restaurant and membership, is bringing DJs and dwell performances, plus steaks, sushi and pan-Asian fare, to a 7,500-square-foot house.
(Wonho Frank Lee / MainRo)
Masters of Style
Fundraising meals pageant Masters of Style is returning for its fifth 12 months, bringing greater than 100 representatives of eating places, bars, bakeries, wineries and breweries to the Rose Bowl on April 3. Gabi James, Lunasia, Bone Kettle, Luv2Eat Thai Bistro, Poppy + Rose, the Raymond 1886, Gracias Madre and extra will supply limitless bites and sips, with 100% of the occasion’s ticket proceeds benefiting native nonprofit Union Station Homeless Providers. Vanda Asapahu of Westchester’s Ayara Thai Delicacies will function the occasion’s host chef and lead a meals tent impressed by the Thai vacation Songkran. Normal admission ($135) consists of entry from 4 to 7 p.m., whereas VIP ($195) consists of 3 p.m. entry, entry to particular areas and unique tasting gadgets.
1001 Rose Bowl Drive, Pasadena, (626) 791-6677, mastersoftastela.com
Cracker Barrel Kitchen Lawndale
Southern comfort-food chain Cracker Barrel launched a ghost kitchen in Hollywood last October, and on March 15 it expands to the South Bay. Dishes like rooster and dumplings, hash brown casserole and all-day breakfast can be found for supply in Lawndale through DoorDash, UberEats and Grubhub from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. day by day.
Cracker Barrel’s consolation meals is now accessible for supply in Lawndale, providing all-day breakfast and extra.
(Cracker Barrel)
