Comments on: dineLA: Thoughts on Restaurant Week

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By: Joshua Lurie

Joshua Lurie — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:49:22 +0000

H.C.,

Thanks for all your comments. I’ve got a number of round-ups in the works, including Armenian flatbreads, fried chicken and rice cakes. Hopefully that will help to give you what you’re looking for.

By: H.C.

H.C. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:30:06 +0000

Glad to hear, and now I miss the old Gridskipper — when they actually had interesting lists & maps of not your everyday and under-the-radar eateries.

By: mattatouille

mattatouille — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:58:35 +0000

H.C., I didn’t understand your point of view that you’re discussing until I spoke with Josh last Monday. Not to spill any beans, but DineLA will be increasing their coverage (not sure about Restaurant Week, but at least their journalistic scope) to ethnic enclaves like you mention. Perhaps he can ring in on this to clarify for you, but your concern is definitely valid. I should have noted that DineLA is really a commerce agency run by the City to encourage business in the restaurant industry (so all restaurants in the city should be able to benefit).

By: H.C.

H.C. — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:45:26 +0000

I’ve also read Angelenic’s take on DineLA, I think I’m somewhere in the middle in my opinion. Indeed, I think it’s great many of L.A.’s finer, swankier places are more affordable and accessible to the average person for these two weeks — but at the same time, so much of L.A.’s culinary culture is left out, particularly in regards to our myriad of ethnic cuisines.

And since so much of the rave about DineLA is encouraging diners to check out new places, it’d be excellent if they are providing incentives for diners to check out Little Ethiopia, Koreatown and the Valleys’ gems as much as they do the already-well-known-and-established places from Downtown to Westside (granted, many ethnic places are already pretty affordable, but I’m sure they can still throw together a deal and offer a three-course bargain too.)

But for a second year this is certainly not a bad representation, hopefully it gets bigger and better in the coming years.