WHY All the Thai stalwarts (try the chicken with mint leaves) are well prepared, as are the special dishes, like crab noodles and eggplant salad. WHAT Straddling the Silver Lake/Echo Park dividing line, this long-established eatery delivers tasty home-style Thai food throughout the area. You can also eat this delicious food in-house and accompany your [...]
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WHY Homey vegetarian fare (mac ‘n cheese, vegetable tarts, tagines) served out of a tiny, charming Sunset Boulevard storefront. WHAT The owners of this candlelit chocolate box of a café are folk musicians who turn out organic fare with a retro feel from a minuscule kitchen. Mediterranean-inspired vegan and vegetarian dishes (roasted tomato-feta tarts, kale [...]
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WHY Famous for the Devil’s Mess egg dish, but also good for biscuits, gravy and healthier alternatives like spinach, pine nuts and eggs. Try the chipotle grilled cheese at lunch. WHAT The tiny Silver Lake diner has been sort of a punk rock commissary for some 25 years and was a real diner for 40 [...]
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WHY For a rigorous and rewarding approach to making sushi, run by a master chef. WHAT Chef Andy Matsuda is a highly regarded sushi master and teacher, and he and his team of chef/teachers run an excellent school. Its core is a professional program for aspiring full-time sushi chefs, but it also offers short-term intensive [...]
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WHY Neopolitan-style pizzas (try the burrata), well-filled panini and good salads, plus delivery Downtown. WHAT Although it’s a sit-down café, and a perfectly fine one, this is a handier place to know about for takeout and delivery, especially because it can get mobbed at lunch. (Note that lunchtime delivery orders need to be in by [...]
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WHY To tour, taste and buy at L.A.’s only remaining winery, which also happens to be a pretty good one. WHAT Going back to 1917, when L.A. and the San Gabriel Valley were rich with wineries, San Antonio is run with care and skill by the Riboli family. It produces wines on site under several [...]
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WHY Downtown’s best pizza, which holds up well in a takeout box, plus other goodies to take back to the office for lunch. WHAT This pink fashionista café has an adjacent mini-mart and gourmet-to-go counter, which is sadly open only until the early afternoon. Call ahead and they’ll make you a fabulous pizza or salad [...]
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WHY For good, inexpensive Japanese comfort food, especially udon, served late into the night. WHAT A Little Tokyo icon, Suehiro is a simple, affordable café that serves satisfying udon noodle soups, cold soba noodle dishes, bento-box meals and katsudon bowls. Extras include friendly service and a library of Japanese fashion magazines and manga. WHO City [...]
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WHY It’s the least pretentious—and least expensive—place in town to enjoy coffee brewed by individual cup in a Clover machine. WHAT Hidden in a strip mall on South Figueroa between Staples Center and USC, this place is a total find for serious coffee lovers. It has a good and often-varying selection of fair-trade beans from [...]
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WHY Two words: cream puffs. WHAT The craze that has swept Japan is now in L.A., with branches popping up like Pinkberries once did. The obsession is over a cream puff. Fat balls of choux are baked all day long, and when you order yours, an employee fills it with sweetened cream (vanilla, chocolate, green [...]
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