Speaking of restaurants, I checked out the new Más Malo yesterday. Beautiful space, and really solid, delicious Mexican food. Additions like this really bring up the QOL, and give me the feeling that DTLA is finally growing up. More than ever, the progress made in the past few months seems especially visible - probably the result after living abroad for a while (versus living here my whole life and visiting several times a week). The downside to visiting again, is that compared to the hustle and bustle of Buenos Aires (and other, non-American mega-cities..and small cities, too), LA, with its excess road capacity and all-but-abandoned sidewalks, feels like a ghost town
Lots of new stuff on the street art front, too. Here are, among others, some new pieces (or at least, ones that weren't here the last time I was in town):