All FJM Food Articles

Ernesto Uchimura's railway-themed restaurant and cocktail bar closed after nearly 10 years, announced September 1 with no reason given. It sat on a triangular lot that was genuinely once a Pacific Electric Railway junction.

Ray Garcia closed Broken Spanish downtown during the pandemic. He reopened it as Broken Spanish Comedor in the A-frame building that once held Roy Choi's A-Frame, with an in-house nixtamal program and a Michelin recommendation in its first year.

Holbox, Kato, Providence and Somni all landed on North America's 50 Best Restaurants for 2026, with Holbox the highest-ranked Los Angeles entry at No. 26. A guide to all four, what they cost and how hard they are to book.

Savage Seas turns the Fonda Theatre's Hollywood rooftop into a nostalgia-driven cocktail tasting experience channeling the city's classic tiki bars, with a full bar and half-sized martinis served in matching glassware.

TenderFest takes over the Wallis Annenberg Center on Saturday, September 19, from noon to 10 p.m. Unlimited chicken tender tastings, a conTENDER competition featuring Jitlada, Petit Trois, Lucia and Miya Miya, and a judging panel that includes Nancy Silverton, Cat Cora and Tim Hollingsworth.

The Brothers Sushi opened a Beverly Hills location at 255 S. Beverly Drive, in the room Sushi Kiyono held for 27 years. Address, menu plans, and what to know.

Quality Branded's first West Coast restaurant opened in the Beverly Hills space that housed The Palm steakhouse for decades. A boar sculpture named Boris guards the door, the burrata is flown from Puglia weekly, and the lobster arrives on fire.

LA Chef Con returns to City Market Social House on October 5, 2026, with Danny Meyer, Issa Rae, Kwame Onwuachi and a lunch at DAMA, Rossoblu and Skyduster.

Aaron Robins is closing Boneyard Bistro after 21 years in Sherman Oaks. The smokehouse that helped make Ventura Boulevard a destination for chef-driven barbecue serves its final meal Saturday, September 12, 2026. The chef, the history, and what to order before it goes.

Kiyoshi Kimura, the Tokyo restaurateur who has paid record prices for bluefin at the New Year tuna auction eight of the last nine years, chose Chapman Plaza in Koreatown for his first restaurant outside Japan. Tablet ordering, late-night hours and prices well under what the name suggests.

The L.A. Times Food Bowl lands at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica October 23 and 24, 2026, with 40-plus restaurants and the 101 Best Restaurants countdown live.

Mark Okuda's Michelin-listed sushi operation runs a Downtown Culver City room built on dry-aged fish. Omakase runs from about $95 at lunch to $200 at dinner.

Skywalker Grill, the rooftop restaurant atop George Lucas and Mellody Hobson's new museum in Exposition Park, opens September 22 alongside the museum itself. It is open to the public with no gallery ticket required, and reservations are already live on Resy.

Restaurateur Jonah Freedman took over Mistral, the French bistro that has anchored Ventura Boulevard in Sherman Oaks since 1988, and reopened it with the Wine Spectator list intact, a new sommelier, and a late-night menu that cuts the bill by a quarter.

The Arcadia Chamber of Commerce brings Taste of Arcadia back to the Santa Anita Park paddock garden on Saturday, September 19, 2026, with unlimited tastings from dozens of San Gabriel Valley restaurants, breweries and distillers. General admission is $69 and the event is 21 and over with no exceptions.

Max and Helen's is the Larchmont diner from Somebody Feed Phil host Phil Rosenthal with Nancy Silverton, built on a nostalgic 1970s menu with all-day breakfast. Weekend waits have run long enough to become part of the story.

Hide Takeda of Michelin-recognized Sushi Takeda opened Utamaro in West Los Angeles, running a roughly ten-course omakase for about $80 alongside an izakaya menu where nearly everything costs under $20. Lunch runs Friday and Saturday only.

A mother and her two daughters opened Osigye in April on the third floor of Madang Mall, specializing in dak han mari whole-chicken hot pot with the poultry deboned, in original, spicy or pesto broth. Three hours of free parking.

Daisuke Nakazawa, the apprentice from Jiro Dreams of Sushi, opened the Los Angeles location of his Michelin-starred Sushi Nakazawa on Robertson Boulevard in May. A 16-seat counter, a $295 chef's menu and what the team says is the most extensive sake list in California.

Derek Wilcox, the first and only Westerner to complete a full seven-year apprenticeship at Kyoto's three-Michelin-starred Kikunoi, opened Miura in the legendary Rodeo Drive space that once held Urasawa. It earned a Michelin star in its first year.