WHY For a food-lover’s home away from home, not to mention a good place to pick up a rotisserie chicken for dinner or a platter for that potluck. WHAT This clean-lined store is as much a deli as a grocer, with a terrific sandwich counter, a salad bar, an olive bar and a different dinner-to-go [...]
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WHY For generous, delicious sweet and savory crèpes in a campily ornate setting. WHAT Belmont Shore is packed with restaurants, and sometimes they all seem to blend into one another. But this place stands out for its over-the-top décor: huge mirrors, huge chandeliers, velvet curtains and giant Moulin Rouge mural. It’s also notable for its [...]
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WHY They do crispy right—even to the point of packaging takeout falafel in a separate paper bag to preserve that lightning-fast fry. WHAT The falafel doesn’t hit the oil until you order, and the result is a revelation: thin, ultra-crisp exteriors with succulent steaming insides. Go with a sandwich, or, better yet, order as a [...]
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WHY Breakfast burritos are a favorite, and the wide selection of Sweet Lady Jane cakes makes a good accompaniment to coffee drinks. WHAT Chat or work in this Eagle Rock offshoot of the original Silver Lake screenwriter’s paradise. Thanks to the liquor license and adjacent bar and lounge, it’s easy to move from coffee to [...]
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WHY Ordering the Dianne salad marks you as a true Pasadenan. WHAT This institution does a brisk business in Cal-American cuisine. There’s a popular outdoor patio and a modern-coffee-shop interior, but wherever you choose to sit, the go-to dish is the Dianne salad, its ginormous take on Chinese chicken salad (for a more reasonable serving, [...]
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WHY Great chicken curry and egg salad open-face sandwiches; good lemon tarts; a communal table with loaves of bread serving as idiosyncratic napkin holders; excellent vegan and vegetarian options. WHAT These Belgian-based cafés offer a level of quality that’s almost never seen in chains. Fresh, flavorful, often organic ingredients go into the delicious open-face sandwiches, [...]
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WHY Tacos stuffed with chicken mole, mushrooms, cactus or squash, huevos rancheros for brunch and stunning aguas frescas made from fresh fruits or jamaica flowers. WHAT This little stand turns out some of the best Mexican food for miles around with a creative Mexico City—style flair. For more of a sit-down meal with the same [...]
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WHY For a generous, messy, not-inexpensive burger (Angus beef, turkey, chicken, salmon or veggie), prepared in a nearly infinite number of ways. Also terrific are the sweet-potato fries, crisp onion rings and thick shakes. WHAT Have a hankering for a burger with jalapeño jack cheese, carrot strings, a fried egg and apricot sauce? You can [...]
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WHY Tasty, meaty pork ribs (they’re better than the beef ribs), tender chicken, chicken links and greens; if you don’t want your meat covered in sauce, ask for it on the side. WHAT Vying with Phillips as L.A.’s king of down-and-dirty takeout rib joints, Woody’s smokes good-quality ribs and chicken and pairs them with a [...]
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WHY Pork ribs and rib tips, a bit chewy, properly smoky and full of flavor; try the mixed sauce. WHAT This local chain of South L.A. takeout-only rib joints has its rabid followers and ornery detractors; we’re somewhere in the middle, believing for one thing that even so-so ribs are still a gift from the [...]
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