🍽️ Good Taste
Here’s this week’s round-up of Eastside food and drink news
Openings
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Highland Park—Palomino, a new bar from the team behind Gold Line, opened this month at 5630 N. Figueroa Street in Highland Park. The dark, disco-ball-lit lounge serves cocktails including a celery-vodka martini, banana slushy and nitro carajillo, while DJs spin records nightly. Open daily from 5 p.m., Palomino replaces ETA, the intimate cocktail and oyster bar that occupied the space across from Highland Park Bowl before closing in 2024 after about eight years there.
Echo Park—Sushi NROO, an affordable sushi and ramen restaurant, began its soft opening in July at 1487 W. Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park. The menu includes sashimi, specialty rolls, ramen, crispy rice and Japanese small plates. Sushi NROO is located n Echo Exchange, the renovated restaurant complex near Dodger Stadium.
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Atwater Village—Holy Basil in Atwater Village has introduced a Bangkok-inspired summer menu featuring chive cakes with black soy vinaigrette, Thai aguachile, grilled chicken wings and two new curries. The restaurant is also offering a $28 lunch set with three selections: one wok-fired dish, one curry and one fried item. Los Angeles Magazine
Victor Heights—Morihiro is welcoming New York bartender and founder of the Museum of Food and Drink Dave Arnold for an evening of special drinks and snacks on Aug. 2.
Echo Park, Atwater Village and Elysian Valley—The Los Angeles Stone Fruit Festival is coming to a farmers’ market this August, with family-friendly activities, stone fruit tastings and more in collaboration with Food Access LA. They’ll be at Atwater Village Aug. 2, the L.A. River Aug. 6 and Echo Park Aug. 7.
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