Counter: Fried chicken, oysters and hot sauce

The fried chicken and potato salad at Osso. (Betty Hallock / For The Times)Cheers, everybody!

Jonathan is in Italy on vacation, eating, last I heard, 12 courses at a restaurant in Modena. Of course he is. Did you think he'd go on a juice fast or something? Back here in L.A., where it's apparently cooler than it is in Italy, we've been doing plenty of eating too. No juice fasts for anybody.

This week came the news of chef changes, with one noted chef decamping for Spain; another, from Peru, has stepped in behind the stoves. A new restaurant in Little Tokyo has whole fried chickens on the menu, which is reason enough to visit -- as well as more hot sauce available to you than I've seen since…