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Syrian Brunch Sundays at Sham
Spice-scented pleasures
By Jonathan Gold
The Syrian restaurant Sham comes alive on Sundays at noon, still early enough to catch crunchy, spice-crusted disks of warm za’atar bread from the Arab brunch menu, but late enough to make a lunch of shish kebabs and lamby lake kebabs a possibility; relaxed enough for a glass of ice-blended lemonade but still with… Keep Reading »
Syrian Brunch Sundays at Sham
Spice-scented pleasures
By Jonathan Gold
The Syrian restaurant Sham comes alive on Sundays at noon, still early enough to catch crunchy, spice-crusted disks of warm za’atar bread from the Arab brunch menu, but late enough to make a lunch of shish kebabs and lamby lake kebabs a possibility; relaxed enough for a glass of ice-blended lemonade but still with… Keep Reading »
El Sinaloense: Let He Who Is Without Sinaloa
get to Huntington Park
By Jonathan Gold
When you pull into the parking lot behind El Sinaloense, a small, crowded Mexican restaurant toward the southern edge of Huntington Park, the first thing you will notice is the sheer number of customized trucks. Gleaming, dark-windowed beasts, pickups jacked up on chromed struts to the height of school buses, pump Sinaloan banda… Keep Reading »
Finding Happiness in a Slice of Ibérico Ham at Bar Pintxo
Jamón, jamón
By Jonathan Gold
Ibérico ham, the latest obsession of the food world, is the well-aged product of cosseted Spanish pigs, at its best hand-sliced, arranged on a plate, and eaten plain with the fingers, preferably while one is sipping on a cold glass of fino sherry. The black pigs that make Ibérico ham are raised in and… Keep Reading »
Khun Dom: Undercover Thai
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By Jonathan Gold
From the window of a car, Khun Dom may look like the least-promising Thai restaurant in Los Angeles, a weary, faded building in a liquor-store parking lot, with bars on the windows and painted-out graffiti on the walls that you have probably spent a little too much time observing while stuck in the choked… Keep Reading »
Sham's Syrian Sunday Brunches
Massive kebab plates and warm rounds of fresh-baked pita… View Slideshow »
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