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In 2021, Michelin-starred California-based chefs, including Jon Yao, praised the restaurant's "best-executed Chinese food". [ 4 ] Until its star loss in December 2022, [ 12 ] Bistro Na's was the only Michelin-starred Chinese restaurant in the Los Angeles area.
The chain's first store opened in 1985, on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard, inspiring the restaurant's name, along with the idea that Manila was known for its sunsets. The founder, Ben Halili, who migrated to the United States from the Philippines, intended to provide food for Filipinos in the United States who had missed the food of their ancestry.
Chinatown is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles, California, that became a commercial center for Chinese and other Asian businesses in Central Los Angeles in 1938. The area includes restaurants, shops, and art galleries, but also has a residential neighborhood with a low-income, aging population of about 7,800 residents.
Asian Garden Mall was developed since 1986 and opened for business the following year, as the second phase of Jao's development plan for the land that Bridgecreek owned alongside Bolsa Avenue. The first phase was a shopping center across the street from Asian Garden Mall named Asian Village, developed in 1985. [6]
Michelin published restaurant guides for Los Angeles in 2008 and 2009 but suspended the publication in 2010. [4] Publication of the guide would resume for Southern California in 2019 but now covered all of California in one guide.
Also in 2014, Yelp expanded in Europe through the acquisitions of German-based restaurant review site Restaurant-Kritik and French-based CityVox. [65] [66] [67] In early February 2015, Yelp announced it bought Eat24, an online food-ordering service, for $134 million. [68] [69] [70] Then in August 2017, Yelp sold Eat24 to Grubhub for $287.5 million.
These were the ten neighborhoods in Los Angeles County with the largest percentage of Asian residents, according to the 2000 census: [1] Chinatown , 70.6% Monterey Park , 61.1%
China City, Los Angeles was a short-lived "Chinatown" tourist attraction developed by Christine Sterling, who also worked on the conversion of a neglected street into the Mexican-themed Olvera Street. She conceived of a similar plan for the displaced Chinese-American population following the demolition of Old Chinatown, Los Angeles. [1]