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Food FYI: Sunny Spot to small plates: ‘Buh-bye’

Sunny Spot's Roy Choi says he is no longer serving small plates.
(Ricardo DeAratanha / Los Angeles Times)
By Betty Hallock
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BIG PLATES: Sunny Spot, the Caribbean-influenced Venice restaurant from Roy Choi, is abandoning small plates to offer the kind of plates from way back when -- the kind with an entree portion of meat and a couple of sides. [L.A. Weekly]

WHEN IN ROME: A travel guide to the best restaurants and bars in Rome, including the 19th-century La Gensola for seafood, the Monti neighborhood’s l’Asino d’Oro and the classic Perilli for your fix of amatriciana. [Food & Wine]

BRITS WANT OUR BEER: American craft beer sales in the U.K. increased 86% last year, and they’re still going strong. [The Independent]

MEANWHILE AT McDONALD’S: At a McDonald’s in West Virginia, a U.S. flag flying upside down at half mast grabs national attention. [Huffington Post]

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MORE PIE: That is, pie charts. [The Hairpin]

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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