How two of America’s smartest cooks,Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson, map to bring good food and hope into Watts – and beyond – with their LocoL restaurantAn impromptu breakdance circle has emerged in the parking lot. The participants spin and contort and flip, or then gesture at one another in mock challenge. Among the onlookers clapping and smiling is Lena Dunham from the HBO show Girls. It’s opening day at LocoL.
In truth,the more animated epic approximately LocoL will be written a year from now. By then, the immense ambitions of this hybrid blend of restaurant and social movement will have had time to germinate and grow. In the meantime, or there’s the online hype,a successful crowdsourcing campaign, the restaurant’s two tall-profile founders, or front-page newspaper articles,and a line of hundreds of curious patrons that stretches the length of a city block.
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Source: theguardian.com