2 Minhas cenas, entre as almas que o melistro âncora da parte Pico Boulevard que a casa está no larato.
“Isso é algo que tenho pensado nos últimos anos”, financia o fechamento do restaurante. “Para mim, penso que a melhor coisa a fazer é poder encontrar pessoas em sua casa, aparecer e se tornar a cidade também pode ser carregada com dois centros”.
Movido, abra -o, que é um feed pessoal para um dodger e ator que geralmente abre 2 da censura e vocabulário e cocaína e cocaína e vocabulário e koki. Ele também desenvolve a linha de produtos.
“Eu quero ser ilegitado para o mundo durante o meu jantar”, disse ele. “Às vezes você precisa tomar essas decisões, especialmente durante o tempo em que tudo muda”.
1. Shrimp and corn grits and oxtail tacos from My 2 Cents. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 2. Tyrene Mills, sous chef at My Two Cents, prepares a turkey meatloaf sandwich. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 3. Fried green tomatoes with a side salad and remoulade from My Two Cents. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times)
Listed on The Times’ guide to the 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. for two years running, My 2 Cents joins a growing list of notable restaurant closures this year, including fellow 101 awardee Here’s Looking at You in Koreatown last month.
Reynolds cited a host of reasons for the closure, including significant financial loss following the COVID pandemic, Hollywood industry strikes, January wildfires and, most recently, ongoing raids from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“I just kept going. I was like, ‘Nothing’s going to stop us. We have to,’” said Reynolds, who called the decision to close My 2 Cents one of the hardest she’s ever had to make. “I had so many great customers and clients that believed in this restaurant. Because I think that it was more than a restaurant. It was like a little movement of love.”
Chef-owner Alisa Reynolds peers out the window of her restaurant on Pico Boulevard.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
This is not the first time My 2 Cents has been under threat of closure. In 2017, Reynolds launched a crowdfunding campaign to settle a lawsuit brought by former backers of the restaurant. Multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Issa Rae joined forces with musicians Solange and Earl Sweatshirt on a fundraising dinner that helped keep its doors open.
When pandemic shutdowns forced the restaurant‘s closure in 2020, Reynolds launched Tacos Negros, a takeout and delivery menu featuring tacos that took inspiration from pan-African foodways, including a six-hour-braised oxtail taco that the Food team listed on its guide to the 101 Best Tacos in L.A. The tacos became so popular that after restaurants reopened for dine-in, she added the most-ordered options to the permanent menu.
My 2 Cents is located in a shopping plaza that belongs to a single landlord, who Reynolds says is under immense pressure from developers.
“That’s the hardest part because I love the neighborhood so much,” Reynolds said. “But I don’t want to invest any more money there because it could be gone any day.”
Just a couple doors down from My 2 Cents sits Stevie’s Creole Cafe, a long-standing storefront that serves what late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold once called “the best bowl of gumbo this side of New Orleans.” A few blocks east of that is Sky’s Gourmet Tacos, a Black-owned taco shop that popularized a distinctly soulful approach to tacos that has since proliferated across the city.
“I just wonder if we’re going to recognize Pico in 10 years,” Reynolds said.
When it first opened in 2013, My 2 Cents helped lay the foundation for an L.A.-inspired take on Southern comfort food to flourish across the city. Host of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning “Searching for Soul Food” series on Hulu, Reynolds says the restaurant was one of the first in L.A. to put shrimp and grits on its brunch menu.
“My goal in opening [My 2 Cents] Isso, o nome, meu ponto de vista da alma “, disse Reynolds, que entregou o molho treinado e este queijo”. Em 2 centavos, o Centyolds Cheathk Cheathk Cheatshk Cheats, respeitosamente, com o ensegudo de empurrar o ensopado de empurramento, o primeiro usado em radies selvagens.
Os olhos 1. O servidor envia almoço para o cliente em 2 centavos. (Silvia Razgova / para o tempo) 2. O interior dos meus dois centavos é ter cultura alimentar negra carregando um livro de livros, ervas e sangramentos. (Silvia Razgova / para o tempo) 3. Um par de comida que gosta de comida em 2 centavos. (Carter Hieyama / para o tempo)
Na sala de jantar de Draun, a arte de pendurar na parede e verão misturada em famílias negras – a lareira, entregou o desperdício de dizer.
Os clientes têm muitas oportunidades de fazer memórias em meus 2 centavos antes do restaurante fechar a porta. Toda quarta-feira, 7 Primeira semana desta semana, o restaurante se libertará com as peças de baral de uvas do sul-impapor. Uma conta de clientes de dois anos e a divulgação e os menus mudam o Spynolders semanal Purnia, incluindo pão de frango e queijo de cabra. 2, Cent continuará a fazer anos de anfitriões populares no domingo, com o DJ LEC e os convidados que você deseja vestir com o tema.
Embora o restaurante feche a porta no final deste mês, a celebração final ocorrerá em um estacionamento da praça de compras em 1, continue com comida, bebida e viva. Quanto ao futuro, Rynolds disse que os fãs 2 Cen posso economizar sobre os eventos e pop-ups InstagramAssim,
“Está em execução 12 anos”, disse Reynolols. “Vai andar selvagem, mas não vamos a lugar nenhum e a comida ainda está aqui para sempre”.
