From hipster food trucks to exotic menu mashups and “pop-up” restaurants — reinvention is the theme that connects trend-setting chefs in the nation’s second-largest city that has a reputation as a culinary Wild West.
“L.A. really is the food city of the moment,” James Oseland, Saveur magazine’s editor-in-chief, told Reuters.
While San Francisco, New York and Chicago have well-defined food identities, Los Angeles’ vast, varied and undiluted ethnic food tradition makes it more difficult to pin down.
“The way the global food cultures casually converge in the place makes for a vigorous food culture that exists nowhere else on the planet,” said Oseland, who last year devoted a special issue to Los Angeles, dubbing it the ultimate food city.