WHY Postmodern diner food (White-Trash Tuna Sandwich), served 24 hours a day in comfy booths at modest prices. WHAT Not only is Fred’s one of the few 24-hour eateries in L.A., but it also achieves that rare state of being all things to all people. High school kids looking to share after-school chili-cheese fries? Check. [...]
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WHY Thalis—think of them as Indian combo plates—offer a great way to begin or renew your acquaintance with this rich cuisine. WHAT This aptly named café features dishes from many regions of the Subcontinent. Standouts include masala dosa, a rich eggplant salad with tomato sauce and ginger yogurt, tandoori fish, lamb frankie and lentil soup. [...]
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WHY The buffet lunch is inexpensive and wonderful. WHAT The mountaineer/photographer/chef trained in Austria and brings a gourmet sensibility to Tibetan and Nepalese cuisine, which is reminiscent of both Chinese and Indian food but more subtly flavored. Karma Tenzing Bhotia’s menu spans the Himalayas, from lowland curries and dals to highland yak, noodles and momos [...]
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WHY Sopes made with fat masa cakes, richly flavorful beans and tender chicken; all the meats (carne asada, lengua, carnitas) are good, too. By day you can eat in the plain but roomy café, by night at the taco truck. WHAT The women in this kitchen turn out some of the best Mexican food in [...]
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WHY Romantic patio setting and an evocative, just-challenging-enough Thai menu. WHAT The glass-walled dining room is attractive, but the open-air patio—set off by 15-foot-tall steel panels laser-cut to suggest the patterns of Thai fabrics—is the ideal setting for consuming the street food-inspired dishes served at this sister restaurant to neighboring Saladang. Standouts include the crispy, [...]
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WHY Some of the best Thai food in the San Gabriel Valley. WHAT Saladang’s dining room is chic and modern—with exposed ducts, colorful table settings and handsome rattan chairs—and its food deliciously fresh and well-presented. The yellow curries, satays, light fried calamari and spinach-and-duck salad are all excellent. The menu is thoughtfully laid out with [...]
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WHY The lovely rosemary-lined patio and the refreshingly uncomplicated modern American food: grilled sandwiches, crisp-skinned chicken, a terrific burger, and its decadent deep-fried trio of delight: sweet potato fries, french fries and the best onion rings in Pasadena. WHAT South Pasadena has become a really good town to be hungry in, and this place is [...]
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WHY Seafood salad, burrata with pesto and roasted tomatoes, ethereal thin-crust pizzas, classic pastas, excellent fresh-fish specials. WHAT Briganti is the sort of lively Tuscan trattoria that’s common on the westside but rare on the eastside, and South Pasadenans can’t get enough of it. The joint is always jumping, with noise bouncing off the brick [...]
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WHY The pastas are terrific. WHAT This is the San Gabriel Valley’s most consistently excellent Italian restaurant, combining warm service, a serious wine list and downright delicious food. Don’t miss the baby lettuces with roasted peppers, eggplant and goat cheese; the black and white tagliolini with scallops and saffron sauce; and the whole grilled branzino. [...]
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WHY The carnitas burrito of your dreams, and great cochinita pibil, too. WHAT Not many 100-square foot taco stands in a liquor-store parking lot can boast a James Beard award, but Yuca’s can. Since 1976, Socorro Herrera and her daughter, Dora, have been the queens of Hillhurst, turning out fantastic tortas, tacos, burritos and, on [...]
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