Sometimes friends ask this when they're thinking of inviting me and my partner over for dinner, and I'm quick to say that home-cooked meals are a rare pleasure; I always receive the food someone prepares and shares across their own table with plain gratitude.
But there's an adjunct question that's thornier to parse. It involves differentiating thoughts and emotions evoked by restaurant experiences that are so personal they don't necessarily need to cross into my professional assessments.
The project is the latest from Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken. Their names are etched in the history of Los Angeles dining culture... They launched their most recent Los Angeles-area restaurant, Socalo in Santa Monica, in 2019, surveying Mexican flavors in the forms of tacos, ceviches, grilled ribeye with nopales salad and brownie sundaes with Mexican chocolate sauce.
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