WHY To pick up a great gift for a caviar lover—and it’s not all $364-an-ounce Royal Sevruga stuff, either. WHAT This Euro-moderne West Hollywood outpost of the Parisian fancy-food emporium has a caviar-and-crème fra’che décor, 1950s Hollywood glam photos and two big communal tables in the shop for tasting the goods. Shimmering cases hold of [...]
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WHY Free backyard fruit, vegetables and herbs from thoughtful urban farmers. WHAT Actress Hynden Walch started this nonprofit co-op, through which residents from Glassell Park, Silver Lake, Los Feliz and Eagle Rock drop off their excess backyard crops at a pre-set time and place, and Walch and volunteers bag up assortments that are then delivered [...]
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WHAT This rider on the mobile-truck bandwagon makes solid, respectable barbecue, notably the brisket and pulled-pork sandwiches, the faux-pork vegetarian sandwich and the baby-back ribs. , @BarbiesQ, barbiesq.com. Cash only. Region: Citywide Features: Dinner, Lunch, Vegetarian Price Range: $10-$16, $10-under Cuisine Type: Barbecue
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WHAT While this might seem like just another trendoid truck, it’s true that Indian street food is ideally suited to serving out of a catering truck. This one specializes, of course, in dosa (crisp sourdough rice-and-lentil cakes), cooked to order and topped with chutneys or things like eggs, masala (curried potatoes), caramelized onions, mushrooms and [...]
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WHY This isn’t the cheapest sharpening service around ($5.10 to $25 per knife), but it’s worth it just to get a look in the mobile workshop, a handy guy’s dream come true. And the work is excellent. WHAT This mobile sharpening truck appears at a few places in Southern California, including Koontz Hardware (8914 Santa [...]
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WHY Gleaming home espresso machines to drool over, and maybe even buy. WHAT Pasquini’s got some competition now that Intelligentsia is selling gear for the home barista. The range isn’t large, but it’s smart and thoughtful, from $7,500 hard-plumbed La Marzocco espresso machines that are sturdy enough for a small café, to simple little machines [...]
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WHY Laffa wraps heaped with lemony hummus and any number of savory, delicious fillings. One of the best sandwiches in the West Valley. WHAT The heart of this strip-mall spot is the round oven for baking laffa, the bubbly, doughy, completely addictive naan-like bread that is made fresh for each order. A cook spreads the [...]
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WHY The cemitas carnitas and the cemitas with chicken in black mole are two of the best sandwiches in L.A.; the quesadillas filled with such things as squash flowers and mushrooms are also excellent. WHAT This hybrid restaurant-sandwich shop is a sit-down place, but we’re putting it in Food That’s Fast because it’s really a [...]
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WHY Because you’re bored with most wine-bar offerings and tired of paying through the nose for a glass of wine. WHAT On a funky block between Pico-Union and USC is a tiny haven for wine lovers, where the wines of the day are artfully written on the blackboard walls. The kitchen turns out Venetian-style cichetti [...]
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WHY Wonderful and wonderfully inexpensive Salvadoran home cooking: pupusas, empanadas with cream, sopa de res (a stew-like beef soup) and thick Salvadoran-style horchata. WHAT In a faded cottage on a worn stretch of Beverly lies a wonderful Salvadoran café, staffed with incredibly nice women who deliver hefty pupusas filled with cheese and loroco (flower buds [...]
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