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Make This Tonight: A Bright and Creamy Mediterranean Tomato Salad
Her Restaurant: Barra Santos in Los Angeles
What She's Known For: Bringing a Californian sensibility and hyperlocal ingredients to Portuguese dishes. Making a tiny northeast L.A. restaurant worthy of a detour.
At Barra Santos, Melissa López's Portuguese-inspired restaurant in Los Angeles, tomato salads are a summertime fixture. At this time of year in Southern California, she explained, 'tomatoes are at their very, very best.'