For Phil Rosenthal , there’s only one thing he loves more than food: his family. So, he mixed the two worlds for Max & Helen’s, a new diner he opened on Nov. 18 with his daughter, Lily Rosenthal.

Working alongside famed chef Nancy Silverton and his new son-in-law, Mason Royal, the television writer and food enthusiast spends a great deal of his time on Larchmont in Los Angeles. And he’s had a lease at 127 N. Larchmont for nearly 22 years.

“It was the right time years ago. It just takes years. The city is not easy. There’s a lot of bureaucracy,” Phil says during our interview at one of Silverton’s other restaurants in Hancock Park, Osteria Mozza. “We’ve had the lease since 2004. It takes months just to have them look at your plans, then they sometimes change their minds, depending on th

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