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 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 Divine salt caramels and other gift-worthy candies, as well as delicious bran muffins, pretzel rolls, cookies and gorgeous cakes to order. WHAT Known for her national line of handmade sea-salt caramels, Christine Moore has livened up this stretch of Colorado Boulevard with a friendly bakery, confectionary and café. Great for to-go sweets, or for [...]
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WHY Savory carnitas and carne asada, Baja-style red-snapper tacos and good vegetarian tostadas and burritos. WHAT A cheerful, friendly taqueria with a nicer-than-the-norm setting (comfortable booths) and excellent tacos, burritos, menudo and horchata, all at low prices. They also do a fine job catering parties. WHO Huntington Hospital workers, Art Center students, moms ‘n kids. [...]
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WHY Seductive dishes from the Yucatn: robust, citrus-spiked soups; panuchos with shredded turkey, tomato, pickled red onion and avocado; cochinita pibil; and wonderful tamales, including the colado, with chicken and achiote. WHAT Terrific Yucatn cooking is served at this order-at-the-counter café in the nonprofit Mercado la Paloma, also home to Mo-Chica. The flavors are rich, [...]
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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 The crust is thin, the cheese and sauce are in fine balance, and the vintage sign out front still calls it a ‘Pizza Pie.’ WHAT The pizza is an L.A. legend, but this funky Eagle Rock landmark is no place for a quick bite; waits are fearsome, and even ordering a to-go pie can [...]
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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 Pad thai, pan-fried noodle dishes, papaya salad with blue crab. WHAT A standout among the many excellent establishments in NoHo’s ‘Thai Gulch,’ Krua serves robustly flavored dishes that can be dialed up or down in heat level. Don’t miss its excellent version of pad Thai as well as pad kee mao, flat noodles stir-fried [...]
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