It's been a particularly bad couple of years for California's vegan restaurant scene. From San Francisco and Sacramento down to San Diego, a ton of once-thriving independent businesses and chains, including some with big celebrity backing, are unceremoniously shutting down.
Despite plenty of reopening promises, Sapphire Falls near Rancho Cucamonga has been closed for 13 years, and its reopening timeline could still be years away.
Despite her very public roots in Tennessee, Dolly Parton spent decades living in and around California, including an ultra-private home on the Central Coast and a cabin in the woods southwest of Palm Springs.
Honestly, shocked this hasn’t already been posted here yet.
Just wanted to share what I found while traveling around Las Vegas recently. There's a new generation of restaurants and former pop-ups that are changing the smoked meat scene there, and the group is turning out high-quality stuff that you might be surprised to find in such a tourist-famous town.
Last year, a group called Runyon Canyon Guardians came out fighting against the popular Hollywood hiking spot's planned bathrooms. Lately, though, as the much-needed toilets near completion, the group seems to have moved on — mostly to using slurs and calling Nithya Raman a Communist.
Almost 22 years ago, Will Young accidentally changed In-N-Out policy forever when he and some friends, including the late Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, got workers at a Las Vegas store to make a 100x100.
Funnily enough, after a lifetime in tech he’s got a new project in the works now that he hopes will help reshape all of fast food.