"I found out that I was accepted the day - the literal day after George Floyd was murdered - and this thing that I was so excited about, I instantly stopped caring about it. In the back of my mind, I was just like, 'We need Black-owned grocery stores.'"
Tae-ro Lee and his wife Hee-sook Lee were known for popularizing soondubu jigae, a spicy, red silken-tofu stew, and building a restaurant empire in L.A. that has expanded to 11 locations across Southern California, Texas and the East Coast.
Dooky Chase's Restaurant has been a culinary landmark in New Orleans, known for its signature dishes like fried chicken and gumbo, attracting celebrities and political figures alike.
"In the short term, I do think that things will grow more violent. In the past, when one cartel seemed weak, other cartels tried to encroach upon their territory."
Bar Chuco will debut on the Lower East Side on 37 Market Street, at Madison Street, starting on Wednesday, April 2. Co-owner Jesse Kranzler tells Eater the team sees Bar Chuco as a sister bar to Corima, which is just a five-minute walk away.
"We delayed the closure because we got such a great, big response of people coming out to support the restaurant, which we really appreciate. But then business started receding again, so now at this point, we're forced to close."
Set on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, Perse comes from brother-sister team Farinaz and Farbod Pirshirazi, who built a menu around memories of regional dishes they grew up eating across Iran. While plenty of Los Angeles restaurants tend to focus on kebabs, Perse aims to explore a broader culinary canon of traditional Persian cooking and flavors.
Whenever there's a surge in oil prices, the airlines end up passing that to the consumers immediately. It doesn't take a long time. Jet fuel prices account for about a third of airlines' operating costs, so they cannot afford to wait to upcharge their customers.
