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Food trucks at the
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LA's Arts District
text by This spring, while exploring Los Angeles for a new West Coast office, LA native Samantha
Patrick J. Johnson and I roamed Downtown (DTLA) to check out its many emergent neighborhoods
Comiskey and ended up in the Arts District, a buzzing cultural engine east of Downtown, and a teeming enclave for some of the most exciting food and drink trends in the city.
photography
by Jeremy
Pangilinan
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Like an island off the eastern shores, the Arts District
is separated from Downtown's high-rises by hulking
warehouses, a huge wholesale flower market, a gaudy
fashion district and not least, by the vast squalor of
Skid Row. A decade ago, artists and developers began
rescuing old warehouse spaces, expanding south and
east, toward the river. The neighborhood feels defiantly urban: there are no palm trees, there's no Hollywood sign in the distance, and the ocean breezes
have long since petered out.
Now murals burst from every wall, cafés proliferate
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like butterflies in indoor-outdoor spaces, and what
was once bleak and industrial has become pedestrian,
and human. So after more than 30 years in the Bay
Area, Wine & Spirits's West Coast offices have a new
home, in the Arts District. As we've gone exploring,
we've found a vibrant community of restaurants and
bars, and newcomers generating some of the city's
most anticipated openings.
The restaurant Bestia remains the area's biggest
draw, backing onto the LA River on the District's
eastern edge. There, Ori Menashe churns out wildly
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