Entertainment Multiyphenate Issa Rae and a new pizzeria from business partners will be released this weekend and bring pizza inspired by Funk to its popular cafes. Day by day, the city center will continue as Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen. At night, from May 3, a kind of California-Meets-Neapolitan style, a brick oven in a wood fire, a pizza joint specializing in the bark leopard Downtown returns to Dowtown Hamur.
Ajay Relan, the owner of the partner, said, “The day is really for drop for drops and for night dough.”
Relan and his business partner Yonnie Hagos launched Hilltop via the hospitality group GVO, and quickly established a partnership with the “insecure” actor and producer, which was compatible with theirs, the mission of creating inclusive areas. Since then, triple, Downtown Rooftop Bar Lost, Downtown Rooftop Bar and a stylish restaurant, bar and Jazz club somerville.
Adding that RAE was “very inclusive ında in the operations of restaurants and menu planning, Relan said,“ We could not think of a better partner and ambassador for our mission ”.
In Downtown dough, menu, wood-fuel grille-tavuk, branzino and steak for meals such as-pizza bakery used in the bakery of Northern California is calling the almond wood. The chef geter Atienza (previously broken Spanish, Bouchon Bistro, fig) fills the peel with garlic oil and brushes and parmesan and seer and pizzas with pepper, local honey and fresno Siles; Truffled Fondue and the farmer market cauliflower; Bacon, manila oyster and caramelized onion; And more. There are pastas, black angus meatballs, salads and crisp calamar.
Funk can be found in the air and on the walls – the flavor of the restaurant.

Downtown offers pizzas in the wood fire with pastas, pastas, wood grill steak and more.
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“All the places of GVO have a first vibe curation of all places of GVO, but Funk is a kind of kind we always enjoy the most,” he said. “It was always the most fun and [we’re] To marry the free and advanced period of our love for pizza and the music that comes with it. “
Art will receive color schemes and of course the playlist inspiration from Funk. Wait to hear James Brown, Bootsy Collins, Womacks, Sly and The Family Stone, and other classics and new actions inspired by these groups. Steen Bojsen Moller (also Lost and Somerville) controls the full bar focusing on the spitz called funk musicians, albums and movements they started.
In 2023, this special hill aimed to serve as a pop-up, but it became permanent because of its popularity. The location of 6,000 square meters hosts about 200, including a private dining room of 22 people. In the evening, the triple used a large space for open kitchens and catering and events before, but finally knew they wanted to open a complete restaurant.
Rae, Hagos and Relan hopes to serve the community in the city center with a series of experiences: day coffee in Hilltop, Pizza and Spritzes in the city center in the city center, Lost’s nearby roof, and more projects for Taco – and Rae and GVO.
Downtown Dough was released on May 3, and Wednesday will be opened between 18: 00-13: 00 718 S. Hill St., Los Angeles, Instagram.com/downDowndough

Four ways (roasted, mashed, brine and cracked) at the Bukvons Wine Bar + Restaurant in Long Beach.
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BUVONS WINE Bar + Restaurant
One of the best wine shops in Long Beach has recently expanded with a restaurant and wine bar. Alicia Kemper last year He closed his cage, in the mangetHe sat next to Bukvons, a popular natural wine shop, which he has in partners. Now, the Mangette is redesigning the area with the bottle shop only as a restaurant and wine bar.

Carbonara smoking at Bukvons Wine Bar + Restaurant.
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The Buvons Wine Bar + Restaurant offers a wider meal menu than those in Mangette and Bukets (it offers glass pours and snacks). He draws the weekly farmer market award and plays long wine offers of the bottle shop. Both food and wine menus return every month. Guests can be smoked with dashi and a confit egg; Duck Confit with Leek Chutney; Or homemade terrine. Sometimes the kitchen is managed by a guest chef; It includes a menu of Côme Richard, who visited Paris in May.
Plates such as Charucerie and cheese boards can still be found in the bottle shop as well as wines of the glass, but more prepared dishes can only be found in the new wine bar and restaurant. The new wine bar and the restaurant also have more seating space than in Mangette and host courses and activities such as monthly pasta workshops.
Bukvons Wine Bar Wednesday-Sunday days between 17: 00-13: 00, the adjacent bottle shop now Wednesday-Sunday afternoon 19:00 1145 and 1147 Loma Ave., Long Beach, (562) 342-6557,, Buvonswine.com
Jaime taqueria
A “Top Chef” contestant with a series of Italian restaurants is branched with the first Taqueria.

In Jaime Taqueria in El Segundo, uchhepos or michoacán style sweet corn Tamales.
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Through the hospitality group Memento Mori, the chef Jackson is running Ospi in Venice and Brentwood, Jemma in Hollywood, Jame Enoteca and John Thomas Bar in Hollywood, and Jemma Pizzeria in John Thomas Bar in El Segun and Palisades. The newest restaurant Jaime Taqueria and Tacos were first released to bring a new flavor close to the house.
Times told Times that he lived in the area and wanted to open a canteen for the neighborhood. In order to lead the kitchen, they touched the manager Chief Marco Arregin (PUESTO, MXO), and together they offer large format plates such as pork inspired by Al Pastor under the pineapple secret; Beginners such as Guacamole, green onions and black garlic Chile with Chile crunchy; Parties such as brown butter Esquites; And cattle cheeks in Quesabirria, fillet mignon, citrus-achiote chicken and Mojo shrimp collapsed with gernador. Wash Margarita, Mezcal Old Fashion, Tequila Flights, Mocktails and more.
Jaime Taqueria is open between 11: 00-29: 00, Friday and Saturday, on Sunday and 11: 00-20: 00 and the Brunch is planned for the future. 450 Main St., El Segundo, (310) 648-8231, jaimimetaqueria.com

Jaime Taqueria’s Citrus-Achiote Chicken Taco (front) and Filet Mignon Taco.
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Vudu Çörek
One of the most famous donut chains in the country launched a bright pink police station in the corner of Melrose and La Brea. Studio City’s Voodoo Donuts, which runs a smaller place in Universal Citywalk, can find the classics wearing maple rods on the top of the signature bacon with a series of vegan options and seasonal specialties such as Cherry Cola. The new Fairfax-Neighborhood Voodoo Donut is open for about 24 hours a day and has a larger menu than the shop in Citywalk. It also offers a product such as shirts, crew, pink mugs and coffee bags. A beach place just below the famous Venetian sign is in the works. Melrose Avenue’s Voodoo Donut is open every day between 6: 00-3: 00
7101 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 782-7666, Voodoodoughnut.com