Yo, welcome to another episode of In A Minute with Evan Lovett, coming to you live, not from

the IM studios, because this is a very special episode. This is the LA Food Roundtable. So we had to

bring it out to a neutral spot in Los Angeles.

So what better place than Burbank at the Seven Ecky Studios? Seven Eckys, by the way, produces the podcast.

Thank you very much to everybody here. And we got space. We got a great set. And we have some

excellent, excellent guests.

I want to introduce everybody, but first I got to talk about our sponsor, Ardo Brick.

Ardo Brick specializes in the rehabilitation and renovation of classic Los Angeles places.

Alvara Street, USC. Where else is Ardo Brick? They do so much good work.

Mariachi Plaza. They have tile, they have brick, and they have a factory down in Gardena,

where they reproduce the brick and the tile from the 18th century, 19th century, and 20th century,

and do a fantastic job. So thank you, Art O'Brick,

and thank you for keeping jobs and manufacturing Los Angeles. But now, on to our show,

where we have a very excellent panel of my friends and people that I trust and that I really,

really enjoy speaking with and talking to, and I hope you do as well.

We're going to start with Mona Holmes of Eater, L.A., and Mona actually gave me, I would say,

she gave me a boost, but she gave me my start, really, with L.A. in a minute, because she saw something special in the beginning of when I was

putting together these episodes and she put an article out about L.A. in a minute when I was covering

carnies and Fatburger and in and out. And I'm very appreciative of Mona for that, for giving me

that magnification and that platform.

But more importantly, Mona is a James Beard Award nominee and a fantastic writer that has done

excellent, excellent work for Los Angeles for Eater, L.A.

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