Empress Pavilion – Age without Grace

Restaurant: Empress Pavilion

Location:988 N Hill St #201, Los Angeles, CA 90012.(213) 617-9898

Date: November5, 2014

Cuisine:Cantonese Dimsum

Rating: Like 20 years ago

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For decades, Empress Pavilion has been a Grande Dame of LAs Chinatown scene, offering up Cantonese and Cantonese American fare (and dimsum).

Chinatown kitsch.

With the eastward movement of the Chinese population into the SGV (San Gabriel Valley), the whole Chinatown has fallen on hard times. Empress even closed. But now it’s back.

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