My story is typical. When I moved to Los Angeles, Jonathan Gold taught me about the city — certainly more than “The Day of the Locust” or “If He Hollers Let Him Go” or Raymond Chandler or Mike Davis or Joan Didion — or any of the wonderful and awful movies I’d seen. From San Gabriel Valley Chinese to tacos in Bell Gardens to Compton barbecue, I mapped Los Angeles through eating.

The cake and ice cream, the last dish of the 7-Course Cello Player, at Avery in San Francisco. The cake and ice cream, the last dish of the 7-Course Cello Player, at Avery in San Francisco. The oyster aebleskiver, the second dish of the the 7-Course Cello Player at Avery in San Francisco.

Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles restaurant critic and one of the most influential food journalists of his generation, has died. He was 57. He died of pancreatic cancer, according to the Los Angeles Times, his current employer. He was reportedly diagnosed with the disease in early July.

Beth and Craig Wathen have a vision for their forthcoming City Beer space on Mission Street: it’ll be a cavernous beer library where customers are set adrift in a sea of labels and high-quality restaurant food. Barring any permitting or construction delays, City Beer’s new digs will open to the public sometime in August. The Wathens told Inside Scoop they plan to vacate their current space by July 31, and around the same time they’ll be handed the keys to 1148 Mission St.

A few years ago — I’m not sure when, because I remember it like it was yesterday — I was having dinner with Madeleine Kamman at a popular restaurant in San Francisco. The French-born Kamman ordered the roast chicken. When it arrived, she brushed back her white hair, looked down at the plate then focused her piercing blue eyes on the server: “A chicken breast?” she asked incredulously. “I’d like a thigh.

After nine years of living in San Francisco, cooking professionally most of that time, Junko Schwesig has become well acquainted with the paradox of time in this city. When she thinks of friends back in Tokyo, she can remember exactly when she saw them (“I was wearing a winter coat! We ate ramen!”). Here, the seasons elide together into an unbroken mush. (“Is it January? July? 2014?”) Except when she’s at the farmers’ market.

Josh Even, the former head chef at San Francisco’s Tosca Cafe, has found a temporary home in the kitchen of Tofino Wines, where he’ll design the shop’s small, snack menu. It’s a purposeful — transition for Even, who said he simply “needed a breather” following his departure from Tosca. Last month, Tosca’s then co-owner Ken Friedman was the focus of numerous sexual harassment allegations.

Nite Yun (wearing a bandana) and her employees prepare food orders at Nyum Bai on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Emeryville, Calif. Yun, the owner, was aided by La Cocina, a kitchen incubator that helps women of color and immigrants by providing affordable kitchen space. less Nite Yun (wearing a bandana) and her employees prepare food orders at Nyum Bai on Thursday, March 2, 2017, in Emeryville, Calif. Yun, the owner, was aided by La Cocina, a kitchen incubator that helps women of .

The bar at El Paseo restaurant in Mill Valley, California, on May 20, 2011. El Paseo, Mill Valley’s high-profile, celebrity-backed restaurant from Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famer Sammy Hagar, has closed suddenly. In a statement posted on the restaurant’s website, Hagar said he plans to “revisit” the restaurant in October. But for now, it “has become far too time consuming” for him.

When he was making duck terrines at the NoMad in New York City, Bobby Punla, one of the co-chefs at Likha in Emeryville, says he’d pull the pressed rectangles of meat out of the terrine mold, and think, “This is a lot like Spam.” Across the country in Napa, his co-chef Jan Dela Paz, then a sous-chef at La Toque, would mull over how much certain Michelin-worthy French techniques resembled his grandmother’s cooking.