Cotoletta alla Milanese from Dal Milanese in Los Feliz. | Dal Milanese Upscale Dal Milanese has been quietly serving ossobuco, pastas, and Italian wines on Hillhurst all week A big Italian import has quietly landed in Los Feliz this week. Dal Milanese, the upscale-casual restaurant that first started in Milan, Italy, has opened at 2064 Hillhurst Avenue in the former Puran’s restaurant space, serving up a wide array of classic Italian and Milanese dishes straight from the homeland. Dal Milanese is the first stateside restaurant location for the Luca Guelfi Company, which operates a number of re ..read more

DTown Pizzeria’s Detroit-style pizza. | DTown Pizzeria Plus, the city’s biggest taco tournament returns, a barbecue festival is also coming, and more A giant new pizza festival is coming to Los Angeles at the end of April. Pizza City Fest lands at L.A. Live in Downtown on April 29 and 30 from noon to 5 p.m., with slices, collaborations, desserts, and merchandise from some of the biggest names in local pizza. The lineup includes familiar faces like Detroit specialist DTown Pizzeria, the famous L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele, wood-fired favorite Ronan, and many more. There will be some well-known ..read more

Deep-fried cheesecake on a stick at Dodger Stadium located at Trolley Treats. | Christine Gerriets Start with the Dodger Dog and end with a helmet of soft serve with churros Baseball season is back, and after a somewhat disappointing 2022 postseason where the Dodgers had to see their division rival the Padres move on, fans have a very different team to look forward to. Longtime Dodger Justin Turner left the team, signing with the Boston Red Sox, while All-Star shortstop Trea Turner signed a massive contract with the Philadelphia Phillies. Still, the Dodgers brought on former Red Sox slugger J ..read more

Lisa Vanderpump. | Photo by: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images Without at least a new lease, the gauzy lounge and hangout Pump’s days might be numbered Reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump’s West Hollywood restaurant on Santa Monica Boulevard, which opened in 2014, could very well close soon unless the restaurant manages to work out a new long-term lease. Vanderpump, who does not own the Pump building, has been so far unable to ink a new deal with the landlords, and just this week a new real estate listing showed the Pump space as up for grabs. That’s not all. Earlier this month, Pump had its li ..read more

Beers from Border X in Bell. | Wonho Frank Lee Plus, Mark Wahlberg pours drinks in Studio City this week, Din Tai Fung’s owner has died, and more Border X Brewing could be in trouble without a major cash infusion, reports L.A. Taco. The Latino-owned craft beer operation, “is in danger of closing its Southeast Los Angeles location in Bell without outside investment,” writes reporter Beth Demmon. The plan, owner David Favela says, is for a financial partner to take up to a 40 percent ownership stake in the company in order to keep the brewery afloat, after years of pandemic slowdowns and flaggin ..read more

The James Beard award. | JBFA Margarita Manzke could win for best pastry chef, Rashida Holmes is an emerging chef finalist, and more possible winners from a stacked LA class this year Los Angeles’s restaurant scene could be well-positioned for a couple of big wins at this year's James Beard Foundation Awards, though it won’t come without some fierce competition. Today’s announcement of finalists comes after the panel of judges in charge of the 2023 Restaurant and Chef awards released its long list of semi-finalists back in January. This year’s lineup of finalists is as diverse as ever, with Ou ..read more

Double Trouble in Old Town Newhall. | Double Trouble After decades of fits and starts, Old Town Newhall finds itself at the crux of Western culture, suburban nightlife, and fine wine. Can it last? On a chilly Wednesday last November, a crew of local wine lovers braved the chaotic Santa Ana winds tearing up Santa Clarita’s Main Street to attend a tasting at the Newhall Press Room. The space, a patchwork of tables split down the middle by a narrow walkway, was overflowing with regulars and newcomers alike, each with a tall wine glass close at hand. Unlike the Press Room’s normal wine tastings, t ..read more

Henry E. Huntington and his personal secretary, Robert Varnum, in front of the, at the time, billiard building (now the tea room) on the Huntington grounds, circa 1915. | The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens Plus, an all-day opening in Los Feliz, tinned fish as trend, and more The Huntington’s iconic tea room is ready for its big return soon. The sprawling, private former mansion in San Marino, south of Pasadena, has for many decades been a place for tourists and locals to wander well-manicured gardens and peek at historic works of art — and, of course, to drink tea. The H ..read more

My Greek Kitchen’s semi-hidden facade. Hiding in the shadow of a gas station, My Greek Kitchen is Costa Mesa’s quietly busy home for lesser-known Greek specialties It would not be fair to describe My Greek Kitchen as a hole-in-the-wall. Sure, the front of the restaurant is completely obscured by a row of gas pumps and there is almost no signage on Costa Mesa’s busy 17th Street — also home to places like Crack Shack and the first-ever Sidecar Doughnuts — but that’s okay. This tiny Greek storefront possesses its own kind of charm, and comes with the kind of service and flair that one might expec ..read more

Paper covers the window at the soon-to-come Argento in Silver Lake | Nic Adler Nic Adler of Monty’s Good Burger and Nic’s on Beverly will dole out plant-based Italian food under the name Argento, starting this summer in the former Little Pine Restaurateur Nic Adler is on the move, adding to his already-growing restaurant collection with a new project in Silver Lake. Adler will open Argento in the former Little Pine space soon, with an opening slated for sometime this summer. The focus, Adler tells Eater, will be on Italian flavors, though it’s not clear yet if there are any specific regions of ..read more