WHY Because it’s one of the best-value restaurants in Downtown L.A. WHAT This is the kind of simple neighborhood Italian place you’ve seen everywhere but Downtown. Past a fairly grim-looking doorway in a transitional block (over here, $750,000 lofts, over there, a shabby residence hotel) is a charming room with brick walls and an open [...]
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WHY Open-faced breakfast sandwiches, the grilled steak salad and spectacular cupcakes, scones and brownies. WHAT This funky and fetching retro-American roadhouse features delicious modern-diner cooking. For breakfast, try an open-faced egg sandwich topped with bacon, Cajun turkey sausage or portobello mushroom and roasted red peppers. For lunch, the tuna salad sandwich and the grilled-steak salad [...]
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WHY Brightly flavored and affordable Korean-Thai-Chinese dishes, from addictive Shanghai-style soup dumplings and Thai noodle dishes to savory Korean rib-eye. WHAT This modern mom ‘n pop—he’s Korean and she’s Thai—is decorated with empty flea-market frames and vintage chandeliers, and it’s filled to the brim with the kind of people you’d see shopping for those exact [...]
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WHY Thoughtful, creative dishes made from seasonal ingredients—perhaps a pluot and burrata salad followed by a whole boneless trout cooked ‘campfire’ style (fabulous) or a buffalo burger with truffle fries, and concluding with a Meyer lemon cheesecake with roasted blueberries. WHAT Josie Le Balch grew up in an L.A. restaurant, and now she has become [...]
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WHY Terrific, reasonably priced wines by the glass, a dreamy cheese and charcuterie platter, and the famed pig candy (thick bacon caramelized with brown sugar). WHAT The perfect neighborhood bistro, Lou is a dark and fetching spot hidden next to a laundromat in a crummy strip mall. Stop in for a quick glass of biodynamic [...]
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WHY To experience an L.A. landmark, drink a large, sweet margarita and, in season, have green corn tamales. WHAT If you’re a native Angeleno, you’ve been to El Cholo at least once. It’s a formula but a fun one: Waitresses in hokey Mexican get-ups swoop through the many stuccoed, frescoed, Mexican-kitsch rooms taking orders for [...]
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WHY Fried-egg sandwich (made with gruyère, sourdough and thick-cut Nueske bacon), frittata with bacon-wrapped asparagus, big salads, good burgers, great cheese platter, gingerbread pudding with vanilla ice cream, and more such modern classics. WHAT An upscale coffee shop for the goat-cheese-and-mizzuna crowd, BLD is run by star chefs Neal and Amy Fraser, who are soon [...]
July 12, 2011 | Posted in
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This week’s EatLA/Off-Ramp collaboration took place in a capacious booth at South Pasadena’s Barkley, a happy-hour fave of host John Rabe’s, even though he’s a few decades younger than the average regular. Why? For generously poured, $3 well cocktails (nothing muddled or infused, mind you) with a free daily nosh, perhaps cheese-drenched nachos. What’s not [...]
February 5, 2011 | Posted in
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WHY The comfort of grilled cheese with the sophistication of quality ingredients and modern combinations. WHAT As the dust settles from the last year of food-truck mania, the Grilled Cheese Truck is coming out one of the winners—not as much of a sensation as Kogi, perhaps, but popular enough to always attract a crowd, and [...]
December 14, 2010 | Posted in
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WHY Proper afternoon tea service, plus 18 kinds of iced tea, more than 300 loose-leaf teas and a relaxed, comfortable café setting. WHAT One of L.A.’s best tea salons, T is the first offshoot of a successful New York spot of the same name, and it’s had the same success as its parent. There’s a [...]
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