The other day I rang pal Bill Esparza to ask if he had any food adventures coming up. I wanted to tag along. He suggested a 4:30am start to drink spiked hot chocolate with milk straight from the cow’s teat. I had good intentions. I even woke up at 4:15 but signals got crossed and it didn’t happen. My consolation prize was a later in the day meander through the Mercado Olympic, a stretch of Olympic in DTLA also known as Piñata central. Perhaps in the hope that there’s safety in numbers vendors have been congregating there on weekends for several years now. But lately the LAPD has been...Continue reading »