Midtown Lunch

A little bit of quick news before we get to this week’s lunch links.  Midtown Lunch: LA has been nominated in the Best Food Blog Category of the L.A. Weekly’s 2013 Web Awards!  Our competitors are all awesome, and a few are hugely popular sites we link to on a weekly basis, so we don’t give ourselves much chance of a victory. But if you love us enough to vote (or hate one of the other blogs we’re up against so much you want to keep them from winning) you can do that here.  Thanks.  Now onto this week’s lunch links…

• CULVER CITY Honey’s Kettle makes some good fried chicken [Mattatouille]
• DTLA Horse Thief BBQ is now open in the Grand Central Market [Squid Ink]
• DTLA 3 new food spots are coming to Figat7th [Eater]
• PALMS New Vietnamese spot Phorage is now open [Eater]
• WEST LA Daikokuya is soft open but probably won’t open for lunch until Sept. [Eater]
• VENICE Pork Belly’s Sandwich Shop is now open [Squid Ink]
• EVENT Luckyrice returns next Saturday w/ food from Starry Kitchen, Spice Table, Night + Market, and more [Luckyrice]