WHY For the quintessential grill-your-own Koreatown experience—it’s a great place to bring out-of-towners. WHAT You’ll smell like meaty smoke all night after dinner here, and you won’t mind a bit. It’s one of Koreatown’s best-known places, a dive with brusque service and a constant wait for a table. Thepanchan (side dishes) aren’t as complex and [...]
December 8, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY For 46 beers on tap, with great choices from Ireland, England and Belgium, and solid English fare, including a good chicken curry. WHAT A pleasantly old-school pub (pressed tin ceilings, polished wooden floors, walled patio) that perfectly suits its old-fashioned setting in Sierra Madre’s village center. In the back is a tiny but richly [...]
December 7, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY When nothing will do but oysters Rockefeller, prime rib and a one-man band in a tux singing Bruce Springsteen’sPink Cadillac. WHAT This landmark was founded in 1958, and inside, it remains 1958. The lobster is still being Thermidored, the bananas still flambéed, and the spinach salad still wilted. ‘Ah,’ you might be thinking, ‘that [...]
Type: Restaurant
Region: South Bay to South L.A.
Neighborhood: Pico Rivera
Features: Cocktails, Dinner, Essentially L.A., Kid Friendly, Live Music, Lunch, Private Room, Quiet, Romantic
Price Range: $17-$24, $34-up
Cuisine Type: American, Continental
December 2, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Distinctly unique Croatian pizzas that are among the best in L.A. WHAT There’s no room for interior dining at this San Pedro pizza joint, but that’s a necessary sacrifice—Pavich’s allots most of its square footage to an enormous brick oven. And it’s with that oven that owner Zdenko Pavic is able to craft truly [...]
November 30, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Our 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. Extras [...]
November 29, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY It’s a place of tremendous simplicity: you got your hot-from-the-fryer fish tacos ($1.50) and your shrimp tacos ($2), and you can buy a canned soda or fresh horchata ($1) to drink. That’s it. WHAT This seriously funky taqueria is run by a guy named Joseph, who jokes and flirts and sometimes lays down the [...]
November 28, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY A forward-thinking izakaya for the Downtown set. WHAT Aburiya Toranoko, it has been said, is the hip-hop equivalent of its rocking sister restaurant, Lazy Ox. It fits that description in soundtrack and style, but the kitchen hews closely to traditional izakaya cooking. There’s sumiyaki (every conceivable bit of chicken as well as vegetables and [...]
November 27, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY Café fare of a quality never before seen in the Valley, at prices that are more Brentwood than Burbank. WHAT This spacious place from neighbors and restaurant investors Melina and Christian Davies satisfies all cravings, offering Intelligentsia coffee, breakfast pastries and desserts from Valerie Confections (the salted caramel croissant is flaky bliss; the white [...]
November 25, 2012 | Posted in
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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 [...]
November 24, 2012 | Posted in
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WHY For a ‘real’ restaurant with good modern American cooking and a worthy happy hour, smack in the middle of the USC campus. WHAT For proof that college campuses are now luxury resorts, check out this sleek place in the lavish new student center at USC. With a cozy bar, a chic dining room, a [...]
November 22, 2012 | Posted in
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