"Los Angeles's restaurants continue to face difficult headwinds, starting in 2020 with the onset of a global pandemic and exacerbating with the Hollywood labor strikes in 2023, which led to an industry-wide slowdown that's continued into 2025. From the lingering impacts of the Hollywood strikes to increased costs (labor, rent, ingredients, etc.), many variables continue to batter restaurant owners who operate on razor-thin margins. Los Angeles restaurants also continue to struggle with the impact of the 2025 fires, including slow business and devastating property loss,"
"Citizen Public Market - Culver City's nearly five-year-old Citizen Public Market closed permanently on November 2. It's a stunning loss for Los Angeles - the historic building housed seven restaurants, including chef Brandon Kida's Go Go Bird (which reopened in Riverside County), Benevento, Smokey Chance, and the Jikoni pop-up. Citizen opened in November 2020 amid steep pandemic-era challenges even as it operated in the heart of Downtown Culver City adjacent to HBO at Ivy Station, Amazon Studios, and Sony Pictures Studios."
Los Angeles restaurants have faced prolonged headwinds since 2020, including the pandemic, 2023 Hollywood labor strikes, rising operating costs, 2025 fires, and ICE enforcement. The combination of lingering strike impacts, higher labor, rent, and ingredient costs, and catastrophic fires has reduced business and inflicted property loss, squeezing operators with thin margins. Several notable November closures occurred: Arroz and Fun left Lincoln Heights and moved operations to sister restaurant Chifa in Eagle Rock; Culver City's Citizen Public Market closed permanently on November 2, displacing seven restaurants; Santa Monica's Pono Burger closed on November 10; Eater confirmed Sun Nong Dan's closure and the Sixth Street location shuttered.
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