Right? It feels like over the last two years the food section has devolved into a combination of clickbait lists (best fastfood xxx SoCal Countdown!!!), human interest stories only tangentially related to food, and reviews of such interesting new concepts as…a Disney restaurant. awesome.
Honestly, it feels like an editorial decision was made to change what Food section should be. and it is so boring to me.
They still have some good stuff. The Napa Rose review was part of a whole package of articles about Disneyland, similar to the Palm Spring package they did in Februrary.
Napa rose has a pretty good wine list, better than the vast majority of restaurants in Los Angeles. It used to be better, but even in its current state it’s still good. I have drank some stunning wines off that list. Unless you want natty hipster wine, none to be found.
She does a best things I ate this week on Instagram that’s pretty good. Usually 3-5 places with pics and descriptions of specific dishes. I believe she posts this on Mondays. She does not post that often which I prefer.
I enjoy her IG weekly posts: clearly some of the joints are “hype focused…influencery” but some are just where she goes with her relatives. Hype and influence are kind of her job.
I get the feeling Addison isn’t going to be around LAT much longer. This is based on no intel whatsoever. Just that his passion and output for discovering and reporting on the LA scene seems to be waning
Addison’s been quite enthusiastic about some of the places he’s written about recently. Likely wasn’t his choice to write about Napa Rose since that was part of a big multi-department Disneyland package (probably the idea of the ad sales department or whatever the digital version of that is).
I suspect with his seniority he gets a lot of vacation time and took a bunch before he started digging in for the long slog to the next 101.