eatery

The recent resilience of independent eateries has helped them regain some lost market share.

Made up of local residents wanting to save eateries that survived the fire, the dining club is the brainchild of Brooke Lohman-Janz, a displaced renter determined to preserve the fabric of Altadena.

Chef Mo, who owns a tiny hole-in-the-wall eatery in Jeonju, forages her own mushrooms on the mountainside, grows produce in her backyard and makes most of her laborious, time-intensive dishes from scratch.

On a clear hot day, I made my way to Lab 57, a local eatery known for its pasta dishes.

As the sky-lobby filled with glossy retail and eateries, some executives worried it was beginning to look more like a mall than an office building.