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Chef Ori Menashe's Arts District restaurant remains one of the most exciting and delicious dining experiences in Los Angeles.

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Charcoal smoke, lard-laminated Sonoran flour tortillas, and the finest costilla in the Fashion District.
Walk down 8th Street around midday and the unmistakable perfume of burning mesquite cuts clean through the exhaust of the Fashion District. Sonoratown has anchored this corner of Downtown since 2016, and while Teodoro Di…
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Chef Ori Menashe's Arts District restaurant remains one of the most exciting and delicious dining experiences in Los Angeles.
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