Six Reasons Why One of Downtown's Best Restaurants Just Closed Forever

In the crazy world of LA’s restaurant scene, with high stakes investments and celebrity-backed ventures from out-of-town chefs, it’s always hard for the smaller player, the single chef-owner opening a place for the first time. This was the story of Shawn Pham, who decided to quietly close his first-ever solo project Simbal over the weekend after a two year r... read more...