JONATHAN GOLD’S 99 ESSENTIAL L.A. RESTAURANTS
JONATHAN GOLD’S 99 ESSENTIAL L.A. RESTAURANTS
Between a tweet and a truck
BY JONATHAN GOLD
Published on August 26, 2009 at 2:09pm
Rivera
It would not be much of an exaggeration to say that among a certain strain of hungry Angelenos, John Sedlar’s reappearance at Rivera, an elegant new restaurant a block or two from Staples Center, is a big [...]
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“The New Cocktailians” by Jonathan Gold
RIVERA
John Sedlar, the godfather of modern Southwest cuisine, has decided to throw his lot in with the molecularists at his new Staples-adjacent restaurant, and the classical French techniques that underlaid his 1980s cooking have been supplemented with a heavy dose of Spanish chemistry-lab stuff. Where his cooking used to be seriously wine-friendly — his restaurant [...]