The Jonathan Gold magazines that helped to reshape 5 LA Nabes – Business Observer

When Jonathan Gold an iconic Los Angeles writer, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 57 on July 21, the city lost one of its most great champions. The Pulitzer Prize winning culinary critic for LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times, not only transformed the type of food establishments deemed worthy of coverage, but also attracted the It was everywhere, but many areas that were more ethnic Los Angeles destroyed this invisible wall that had existed in Los Angeles for decades. that quote people, "Westside" without risk would not venture to, " Justin Weiss a vice president of brokerage for Kennedy Wilson says Commercial Observer." The neighborhoods that have maybe even five or 10 years ago [weren’t on the radar] Jonathan Gold arrived, found those Korean BBQ spots that he thought unbelievable but did not attract much attention … [and he] helped change neighborhood Boyle Heights, Pico Union West of downtown Los Angeles, Eastside, Glendale, Highland Park are all areas that Weiss pointed out that gold, indirectly, helped transform. [

19659007] "Food is what is the ultimate activator of a region.You're looking today in any urban neighborhood, it's the restaurateurs and the homeowners of bar who are the pioneers and a critic like Gold has validated that. "

Here are five finds in Los Angeles that have been forever altered by Gold's always curious eye and appetite for discovery, as well as some of the establishments that he helped not only to defend, but sometimes saved from extinction.

Meal by Genet and Hanbad Park

Gold's 2004 comment for THE Weekly [19659004] of Meal by Genet to 1053 South Fairfax Avenue a attracted attention not only to Genet Agonafer's mind-boggling chief doro wot, which he wrote will do "you will", but increased awareness of the Fairfax small band at Hanbad Park, a long block of houses bordered on both sides by cafes, food markets and places to buy both Ethiopian trinkets and CDs of Ethiopian pop.

Boyle Heights

One of Gold's iconic critics, [19659002] "Moles La Tia: Beyond the Seven Magnificent", may have sung the praises of the Moles' Oaxacan specialty La Tía in 4619 Is César E Chavez Avenue but it also highlights the Eastside neighborhood, which Gold described as a genre "Maravilla just after the 710".

Jitlada Thai Restaurant and Thai Town

Jitlada, as Gold wrote in his 2007 review for THE Weekly, could be one of the "Thai restaurants" Los Angeles's most respected place, the most posh place in Thai Town since at least the late 1970s, "but he had fallen out of favor in the 1990s. After being sold in 2006 to a new team , a Chicago blogger drew the attention of other food bloggers and the place was filled with Thais who had read about its rejuvenation in local Thai language newspapers. Gold's visit however brought it to a wider audience who might not notice the unpretentious space in a shopping center at 5233 ½ Sunset Bouleva or trekked to the area six blocks to East Hollywood. LocoL and Watts

"Korean Taco Justice League: Kogi Rolls in LA ." By Gold in 2009 brought Chief Roy Choi and his Korean taco truck drawing crowds [19659008] Kogi BBQ to a greater attention than those on the truck's Twitter thread. He remained a Choi booster, naming LocoL LocoL, the fast-food skater-themed in the underserved community of Watts that Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson established at 1950 East 103rd Street Restaurant of the Year for 2017. The location of Choi's restaurant, and Gold's complimentary review, gave those on the outside another reason to visit Watts next to the Watts Towers.

Bestia and the Arts District

Bestia's Gold Review and his " in his Counter Intelligence column of the LA Times in 2013, the restaurant and the Arts District in The restaurant at 2121 East 7th Place is still one of the most difficult bookings to obtain.

In one of his latest critics in June, Gold gave a brilliant dispatch of the chief Ori Menashe ] and his wife and confectioner Geneviève Gergis & # 39; second company, oriented on the Middle East Bavel [19659046] in the Arts district, another kitchen that Gold has helped to elevate. " Much of the cuisine on which it's concentrated is not naturally welcomed, many of these cuisines are in the process of becoming and will eventually become gastronomic options. Bavel is a Mediterranean restaurant with a price that is the same as one of the most expensive places in Los Angeles. The Middle Eastern food was not traditionally the food you would see in a more refined atmosphere, but it did. "