Street food long has been a key part of Los Angeles culture, in the past decade or so manifesting in a boom of food trucks surrounding office buildings by day and spots like Venice's Abbot Kinney Boulevard by night.
Kogi's Roy Choi often has been credited as a leader of the food truck revolution since launching his Korean-Mexican fusion operation in 2008; 12 years later, he has watched as the industry took a profound hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We have been feeding film sets for over a decade and have been going to offices from downtown to the valley to the Westside every day for years," Choi says.
Though he expects studio business to pick up, he says he's "not sure how office-life lunches will ever be the same again, especially in.