Newsletter: Counter: Selling out and buying in
Meg Gill of Golden Road Brewing.
It's fall again, although hardly fall weather in this town. Which means that we're either drinking beer — in brewpubs, in front of Dodgers games — or thinking about the future of craft beer in this town. We're also checking out new restaurants and new food trucks, or sitting down with new food television shows. At least we're consistent. What to look forward to? Jonathan Gold's upcoming 101, the baseball postseason, and maybe even El Niño and cooler weather so we can all start eating bowls of ramen again.
And be on the lookout for Wednesday's In the Kitchen newsletter, with cooking tips and news, including new recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen.
Golden Road tapped in big beer deal
There was big news this week for L.A. craft beer lovers, as Golden Road Brewing was sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev. Golden Road, founded in 2011 by Meg Gill and Tony Yanow, is the largest craft brewery in L.A.
(Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
What would Carrie Nation eat?
Amy checks out Hatchet Hall, chef Brian Dunsmoor's newish restaurant in Culver City, in the enormous space that was once the home of Waterloo & City. The food is vaguely Southern, the wine — by Maxwell Leer — is highly idiosyncratic, the decor is Deep South meets a taxidermist's studio.
(Amy Scattergood / Los Angeles Times)
Churros and Nutella — from a food truck
Because not all food trucks specialize in tacos and lobster rolls. Jenn Harris checks out Churros Calientes, which is both a truck dispensing churros (covered in Nutella if you ask) but also a West L.A. Venezuelan restaurant. Either way, lots of churros for you.
Churros covered in Nutella from the Churros Calientes food truck. 
(Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times)
Dim sum, ramen and banh mi
If you crave all of those things, as many of us do, then you spend a lot of time in your car, driving from the SGV to Torrance to Westminster. Now with Pingtung eat-in market, you can just go to Melrose and park — this new place from Taiwanese chef Li Ping serves all of them.
(Jenn Harris / Los Angeles Times)
What Phil's eating
Russ Parsons talks to Phil Rosenthal, the producer of "Everyone Loves Raymond," who is an investor in many high-profile L.A. restaurants. Rosenthal parlayed that insider knowledge into, wait for it, a TV show. His own TV show, in which he wanders around the world eating, kind of like Anthony Bourdain meets "Friends." It premieres on Monday on PBS.
What we're reading
In Lucky Peach, Rene Redzepi talks about why he decided to close his Copenhagen restaurant Noma, often pegged the Best Restaurant in the World. "We realized that we'd been organizing our menus and even methods of work in a stupid and somewhat impractical way."
And ever wondered how cops and doughnuts got paired up? According to Atlas Obscura, it can be traced to late-night beats — and then the happy invention of Krispy Kreme and Dunkin' Donuts, which were open late and easy to find.
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