A norovirus outbreak linked to oysters sickened a minimum of 80 individuals who attended an occasion celebrating The Los Angeles Times’s annual listing of the 101 greatest eating places within the metropolis, native well being officers stated this week.
Hundreds of visitors attended the 101 Best Restaurants occasion on the Hollywood Palladium on the night of Dec. 3, the place a few of Southern California’s most acclaimed eating places and bars served meals and drinks from town’s numerous culinary scene.
The Times used the occasion to unveil its annual information to the 101 Best Restaurants, which it first revealed in 2013, when the listing was chosen by the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who died in 2018.
In a press release on Thursday, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stated that it was “investigating a norovirus outbreak related to oysters that had been served at an occasion on Dec. 3, 2024.”
“At this time, over 80 attendees that consumed the oysters have reported sickness, a majority with gastrointestinal signs that embody diarrhea, nausea, belly ache and vomiting,” the division stated. It stated that some folks had been hospitalized however didn’t say what number of.
Mark Kapczynski, 54, who lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif., and runs a enterprise consulting agency, stated he attended the occasion along with his spouse after shopping for two V.I.P. tickets for near $350 every. General tickets cost $159.
