Adelleda Love is in the air at Vtopian's sibling restaurant, which has a three-course meal available from February 1315. You'll start off with a surprise amuse bouche before diving into a smoked pear salad or sweet potato gratin, sacchetti with rapini or brown butter Parisian gnocchi, and gluten-free pistachio cake with ube custard or chocolate with bourbon hazelnuts. Feeling luxe? Add truffles to the dinner for an additional $35.
On an otherwise industrial-grey corner in downtown Pomona, the bright-pink, cactus-covered facade of Borreguitas beckons like my bisabuela's house in Tijuana, Mexico. Like there, the interior here brims with hanging pothos plants and religious-adjacent wooden furniture; an older Mexican woman stands in the kitchen, apron on and wooden spoon in hand. Borreguitas is the only vegan Mexican spot in this area of eastern Los Angeles county and its menu, filled with tostadas, burritos, tacos, and more, can be made to accommodate gluten-free diners.