{"id":415037,"date":"2025-11-30T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T12:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T12:30:14","slug":"the-times-2025-gold-award-dulans-on-crenshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415037\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times&#8217; 2025 Gold Award: Dulan&#8217;s on Crenshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Dulan, owner of soul food institution Dulan\u2019s on Crenshaw, is the 2025 LA Times Gold Award honoree, a prize created by the paper\u2019s late restaurant critic Jonathan Gold. Through his own Dulan\u2019s on Crenshaw and two Dulan\u2019s Soul Food Kitchen spots started by his late father, Adolf, and now overseen by him and his brother Terry, the Dulan family has kept soul food in Los Angeles thriving. The Dulans\u2019 father, Adolf, was known as \u201cthe king of soul food\u201d in Los Angeles. During the 1980s, he opened Aunt Kizzy\u2019s Back Porch. After recent financial struggles, the community rallied around Dulan\u2019s on Crenshaw, boosting revenue 40% and helping secure crucial investor support. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/food\/story\/2025-11-30\/2025-jonathan-gold-award-winner-greg-dulan-soul-food-dulans-on-crenshaw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Dulan, owner of soul food institution Dulan\u2019s on Crenshaw, is the 2025 LA Times Gold Award honoree,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[194737,194743,194740,1582,276,164461,194733,194739,194736,194738,2961,194735,224,2444,5337,46750,194742,4143,194734,194741],"class_list":{"0":"post-415037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-adolf","9":"tag-aunt-kizzy","10":"tag-back-porch","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-crenshaw","14":"tag-dulan","15":"tag-dulans","16":"tag-gold-award","17":"tag-greg-dulan","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-late-father","20":"tag-los-angeles","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-losangeles","23":"tag-owner","24":"tag-recent-financial-struggle","25":"tag-revenue","26":"tag-soul-food-institution-dulan","27":"tag-soul-food-kitchen-spot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115638660314307414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}