All FJM Food Articles

Kulturas Latin Kitchen & Cantina marks its West LA grand opening Friday, August 28 on Pico Blvd with live harp, boleros and free appetizers. Menu, hours, address.

Eric Greenspan opened Mish on La Brea in June, a modern Jewish delicatessen with wood-fired Montreal-style bagels, hand-carved pastrami and a babka program from Dara Yu. It runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, then closes and becomes an event space with an upstairs vinyl lounge.

Gable opened August 18 in the Hollywood Roosevelt's ground-floor dining room, an 82-seat restaurant built around a live-fire hearth from culinary director Chris Flint, formerly of Maude and Eleven Madison Park.

Chef Joshua Whigham's Los Feliz Spanish restaurant is in the MICHELIN Guide, with acorn-fed jamon iberico, Iberian cocas, rabo de toro and a monthly Sunday paella.

Chef Sanjay Rawat opened Brick Lane in May at 1331 E. 6th Street, a modern Indian restaurant built on a wood-fired grill and tandoor inside a renovated 1920s warehouse, with a wine list from Kathryn Coker and Indian single malts behind the bar.

Keith Corbin closed Alta Adams for several months at the start of the year and reopened it in June with refreshed interiors and a reworked menu, now as sole owner of the West Adams restaurant he opened in 2018.

Connie and Ted's, Crustacean, Cactus Taqueria's Hollywood original and Wolfgang Puck's Merois all served their last meals in 2026. A look at what closed, when, and which locations are still open.

Marmalade Cafe served its last meal at The Commons at Calabasas on Sunday, August 2, ending a 28-year run. The Westlake Village, Malibu, Sherman Oaks and El Segundo locations remain open.

Ice Cream Alley, Smorgasburg LA's summer showcase of independent ice cream makers, is running Sundays through September 6 for its 10th anniversary at ROW DTLA. Admission is free.

Michelin named char, smoke and flame a defining trend of 2026, and Los Angeles has the rooms to back it up. A guide to the hearths, tandoors, binchotan grills and wood ovens worth planning a night around.

Blue Ribbon Sushi returned to Palisades Village with something it did not have before: Ueki, a 14-seat omakase counter tucked behind a handcrafted shibori curtain, with a hinoki wood counter and a cedar-clad room.

Alphabet Bar and Grill opened August 15 at Palisades Village, the h.wood Group's first neighborhood restaurant, with James Beard Award-winning chef Timothy Hollingsworth running a menu built on rotisserie chicken and the farmers market next door.

Mitsi opened in April at the edge of Chinatown and Mission Junction, pairing a 110-seat cocktail bar from Mumford and Sons musician Ben Lovett with a late-night sushi counter from chef Jon Kim. The bar runs to 1 a.m., the kitchen closes at 11.

RELISH returns October 2 to 4 with Geoffrey Zakarian, Scott Conant, Sherry Yard, Kat Turner and Afrim Pristine across VEA Newport Beach, The Park Club and AnQi at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza.

Avish Naran is opening Schezwan Club, an Indo-Chinese restaurant, in the same Silver Lake strip mall as his Bib Gourmand sports bar Pijja Palace. Hakka noodles, chili chicken and a dozen sambals are planned.

Hive Hospitality's Ryan Ratino is opening Ode by Jont at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, a roughly 20-course chef's counter in the room that once held Jose Andres' Bazaar and Aitor Zabala's Somni.

The 18th Annual Los Angeles Chocolate Salon and Festival returns to the Pasadena Center on Sunday, October 4, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Entry covers all tastings, demos and chef talks, with a curated roster of award-winning artisan chocolate makers.

After opening at the Original Farmers Market in March, the Napa Valley burger institution has a second Los Angeles location planned for 401 Wilshire Boulevard in Santa Monica, in the former Osteria space.

Régalade, the French bistro from the Oste team on West Third Street, has widened its hours beyond the dinner-only service it opened with and now runs lunch as well.

Belmont Shore's Summer Stroll & Savor closes its 2026 season August 19 and 20, with 18 tasting tickets for $20 across more than forty Second Street businesses.