In my 2 cents closes after 12 years after 12 years
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“That’s what I think of the past few years, Renals in the Destingement of the restaurant.
Forward, Renals, that is different from the expansion of the dugez and rapper player before my 2 cents opening, in addition to cooperation with local glasses and restaurants. He also develops the product’s line.
“I want to encourage the world across the world.” “Sometimes you have to make such decisions, especially during some time when everything changes.”
1. Shrimp and corn grits and oxtail tacos from My 2 Cents. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 2. Tyrene Mills, sous chef at My Two Cents, prepares a turkey meatloaf sandwich. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 3. Fried green tomatoes with a side salad and remoulade from My Two Cents. (Silvia Razgova / For The Times)
Listed on The Times’ guide to the 101 Best Restaurants in L.A. for two years running, My 2 Cents joins a growing list of notable restaurant closures this year, including fellow 101 awardee Here’s Looking at You in Koreatown last month.
Reynolds cited a host of reasons for the closure, including significant financial loss following the COVID pandemic, Hollywood industry strikes, January wildfires and, most recently, ongoing raids from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“I just kept going. I was like, ‘Nothing’s going to stop us. We have to,’” said Reynolds, who called the decision to close My 2 Cents one of the hardest she’s ever had to make. “I had so many great customers and clients that believed in this restaurant. Because I think that it was more than a restaurant. It was like a little movement of love.”
Chef-owner Alisa Reynolds peers out the window of her restaurant on Pico Boulevard.
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This is not the first time My 2 Cents has been under threat of closure. In 2017, Reynolds launched a crowdfunding campaign to settle a lawsuit brought by former backers of the restaurant. Multi-hyphenate entrepreneur Issa Rae joined forces with musicians Solange and Earl Sweatshirt on a fundraising dinner that helped keep its doors open.
When pandemic shutdowns forced the restaurant‘s closure in 2020, Reynolds launched Tacos Negros, a takeout and delivery menu featuring tacos that took inspiration from pan-African foodways, including a six-hour-braised oxtail taco that the Food team listed on its guide to the 101 Best Tacos in L.A. The tacos became so popular that after restaurants reopened for dine-in, she added the most-ordered options to the permanent menu.
My 2 Cents is located in a shopping plaza that belongs to a single landlord, who Reynolds says is under immense pressure from developers.
“That’s the hardest part because I love the neighborhood so much,” Reynolds said. “But I don’t want to invest any more money there because it could be gone any day.”
Just a couple doors down from My 2 Cents sits Stevie’s Creole Cafe, a long-standing storefront that serves what late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold once called “the best bowl of gumbo this side of New Orleans.” A few blocks east of that is Sky’s Gourmet Tacos, a Black-owned taco shop that popularized a distinctly soulful approach to tacos that has since proliferated across the city.
“I just wonder if we’re going to recognize Pico in 10 years,” Reynolds said.
When it first opened in 2013, My 2 Cents helped lay the foundation for an L.A.-inspired take on Southern comfort food to flourish across the city. Host of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning “Searching for Soul Food” series on Hulu, Reynolds says the restaurant was one of the first in L.A. to put shrimp and grits on its brunch menu.
“My goal in opening [My 2 Cents] Was, and the name is, my favorite pigorous silence on my 2 cents, a part of her knotted pork in George, which was first in wild bars.
1. A server offers bread to customers in their 2 cents. (Sylvia Razgova / for Times) 2. My two citudes internal to the black food culture is part of the cooking food culture with cookbacks, musical and dynamic art. (Sylvia Razgova / for Times) .. A pair enjoys food in my 2 cents from draines. (Carter Hama / for Times)
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The drain has a lot of opportunities that reminds me in 2 cents before the restaurant closes your doors for good. Each week starts this week, Restaurant will be hosted along with the south inspired Island Boff. Accessing two drinks of the two drinks, with the last pieces in the basis of the last pieces, in the way, with a hot honey in the world, including a quick chicken siliers. My 2 cents will continue to host the 90s 90s brokeks on Sunday, which can be encouraged to live with live DJ and guests.
Although the restaurant will close their doors at the end of this month, it will be placed in buying in the Plus Parking, be completed with food, drink and live dj. As for the future, Roninals can be updated about the fastest and poppies of the events and poppies in Instagram.
Renals said: “It was 12-year-old.” “It will be a wild trip, but we don’t place no place and this food is still forever.”
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