L.A. restaurants in no-win situation as fate of awards shows remains unclear

Awards season in Los Angeles so far is looking pretty tarnished.

The Golden Globes, usually the first of many glamorous events where stars gather to collect statuettes and the world watches to see what they are wearing, this year was reduced to a no-thrills press conference because of the continuing writers’ strike. And no one in the city’s hospitality industry is happy about that.

Not only are there normally many huge banquets for the thousands of celebrities and those who love