Samanta Helou Hernandez
Caught between new tech money and a growing homelessness crisis, restaurants on one street in Venice, California, are trying to keep its identity alive
DECEMBER 15, 2021, The Counter
Jason Neroni lives on Rose Avenue, though his house is 10 minutes away. The chef and managing partner at The Rose Venice, a bustling 375-seat restaurant two blocks from the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles, spends more waking hours there than he does at home with his wife and two children: weekends, late nights, holidays, usually from 11 in the morning to 11 at night. When he isn’t at the restaurant, he is as close as a text or a call.
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With dreams of small business over empire, LA Trade Tech culinary students are built for this moment
DECEMBER 8, 2020, The Counter
If you need more proof that the world is on hold, drive over to the Los Angeles Trade Technical College campus in South Central Los Angeles, freeway-close, as they say, to both the 10 and the 110. That big, modern building is the community college’s new culinary school, all $48 million and 71,100 square feet of it, vacant except for work crews who unload and install $76,000 ovens from Switzerland, 40- and 60-quart dough mixers, and combi-ovens that enable a student to use steam heat or dry heat or both.