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L.A. food and drink recs from yours truly

Feb 17, 2024
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Plugs is The Angel’s recs column. Every Saturday, you’ll get six picks—a restaurant, a bar, a shop, an ingredient, a person, and a treat—from someone in Los Angeles who knows what they’re talking about. (Plugs are for paid subscribers of The Angel only. However, if you’re in the restaurant industry and want a free subscription, hit me up. :))

#20 is me, round two, on account of some scheduling issues. Alas! It’s been almost five months since I wrote my first edition of Plugs, so it feels like a good time for a re-up. Here goes.


Restaurant — Echigo

I’m going to do a bit of cross-promoting here by pointing you to my Echigo write-up for

FOUND LA
, another newsletter that I contribute to and help edit, which you should subscribe to for recs and intel on where and how to eat, live, get away, shop, and work. This sushi restaurant has been a Wilson family mainstay for over a decade, and is remarkably under the radar given its top-notch nigiri and stellar blue crab hand rolls (which pre-date Sugarfish). That it’s located in the top corner of a West LA strip mall above a Prime Pizza makes it all the more delightful. I try to avoid the phrase “hidden gem” but that’s what Echigo is.

Ikura at Echigo
The best ikura I’ve had in recent memory.

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