2009 was “a really good year for restaurants, a weirdly good year,” states Pulitzer-Prize winning critic Jonathan Gold in a rare interview to The L.A. Times. Gold enjoys the continued craze for fresh, farmed ingredients and seeing chefs like Ludo Lefebvre and Kogi’s Roy Choi turn mobile in pop-ups and vehicles. Though he wouldn’t expound on the issue, Gold denies any immediate plans to leave The L.A. Weekly following the forced exit of his wife, though it left him “unsettled,” according to friendly sources. Gold who recently told Eats.com, “25 years ago, our restaurant scene was probably the most vibrant in the world,” has a pure mission at heart when combing the corners of Los Angeles for good food, “one of the things that’s important to me is to have people not be afraid of their neighbors.”
L.A.’s man With the Golden Palate [L.A. Times]
