On Aug. 5, the sign for the coming Bub & Grandma’s Pizza restaurant went up at York Boulevard and Avenue 51 in Highland Park. It was both a welcome indicator for people missing the former Town Pizza at the same location, and the latest example of the neighborhood’s ever-in-flux dining scene .

It also reflects something else: While the restaurant industry is notoriously difficult, with numerous reports of businesses in trouble or failing, chefs and entrepreneurs are showing plenty of, er, appetite to feed Eastsiders.

Proof comes not just in the shifting marquee signs, but in business licenses. According to Los Angeles Office of Finance data analyzed by the nonprofit newsroom Crosstown , the number of licenses issued in the 17 neighborhoods The Eastsider covers was higher las

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