WHY For golden-crusted north Chinese pastries, flaky flatbreads, meat pies, stuffed buns and dumplings. WHAT Probably the first xian bing (meat pie) place in SoCal, this tiny café makes irresistible versions, filled with beef, lamb or veggie mixtures—like leeks with egg or wild mushrooms. Don’t miss the multi-layered homeland meat pie—filled with juicy seasoned beef, [...]
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WHY To watch your order of sangak, a floppy, chewy, yard-long sesame-encrusted flatbread, pulled from the oven in front of you. WHAT Co-owner Reza Abdollahi once owned a flour mill back in Iran, and this expertise is no doubt why legions of fans willingly take a number and line up. The kebab menu looks familiar, [...]
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WHY Our vote for the best Hunanese cooking in Southern California. WHAT A chile-emphatic menu offers carefully cooked Hunan dishes without the usual vats of oil. The toss-fried lamb, glowing like an electric-powered Christmas tree, is a powder keg of a dish lit up with a quartet of chile styles: fresh diced, dried whole, flaked [...]
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WHY To bask in luxurious five-star service, eavesdrop on a few Industry conversations and partake of a sophisticated modern Italian menu. WHAT The wrap-around patio, the long, undulating crudo bar (pricey), the wall of chic aperitivi—all add Euro-cache to this decidedly upmarket Italian dining room, where the kitchen makes pasta twice daily and where the [...]
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WHY The pampering, the prestige and the people-watching. Also the spaghetti with tomato and basil, which is as good as its $24 price tag would suggest. WHAT Scott Conant’s unfussy Mediterranean fare appeals both to the conservative older crowd and the moneyed young bucks who frequent this deluxe hotel restaurant. The kitchen shines at pasta, [...]
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WHY Our new favorite chicken soup in town, plus quality, classic deli fare and tasty, affordable wines and beers. WHAT Robert Moore serves straightforward deli fare in a concrete-floored, order-at-the-counter, diner-style spot. We’re not crazy about the corned-beef sandwiches, but we love the poached eggs on toast, hearty chicken soup, veggie salad and peel-and-eat shrimp. [...]
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WHY Vividly colorful modern Mediterranean dishes made from organic, often local ingredients, served on a sunny Beverly Hills sidewalk patio. WHAT South Beverly is full of good places to eat, but few give the value that this order-at-the-counter café does. We dream of the rich duck confit schwarma wrapped in a warm pita with oven-dried [...]
Type: Breakfast + Lunch
Region: Westside: Central
Neighborhood: Beverly Hills
Features: Breakfast, Delivery, Dinner, Essentially L.A., Kid Friendly, Lunch, Patio Dining, Value, Vegetarian
Price Range: $10-$16, $10-under
Cuisine Type: Mediterranean, Middle Eastern
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WHY To try Rick Bayless’s famed Mexican cooking without having to fly to Chicago. WHAT It’s hard to know why überchef Rick Bayless thought he should bring his upscale Mexican cooking to L.A., where Mexican food from every region is plentiful, but he did, and mobs of people have flocked to this great-looking place since [...]
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WHY Carefully constructed Cal-Med cooking in a gorgeous coastal setting. WHAT The sprawling, luxurious resort on the site of the former Marineland is trying very hard with its seven restaurants to rise above the hotel norm, especially in this flagship dining room. Talented young chef Michael Fiorelli uses produce from the garden right outside his [...]
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WHY Without booking a trip to Rome, you can taste farmstead mozzarella di bufala from cheese makers working in the DOP (Denomination of Protected Origin). The cheese, sourced from Agro Pontina (where the bufala roam) and Paestum (south of Naples) is flown to L.A. three times weekly. WHAT Based on the sushi bar concept, Obika [...]
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