Lunching in Los Feliz:
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Little Dom’s seems like it could have inhabited its Hillhurst corner forever. It’s a Los Feliz local packed with the kind of history – street-side chairs reclaimed from the Philadelphia Civic Light Opera and a bar mixing up classic highballs – that’s inevitably endearing. That the one-year-old restaurant has [...]
Completely Cuban from this week’s District:
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On a quintessential California day, Habana Café fades right into the sky, a blue box of a restaurant triangulated into an awkward corner just off Downey’s Firestone Boulevard. It’s amazing in some respects that a place so nondescript has endured as long as it has—you need only [...]
Good news for connoisseurs of cheap eats: Tomorrow (Jan. 28th) Panera Bread is giving out free samples of not just coffee (the chain is debuting new light and robust roasts), but also some new breakfast offerings, too. Panera is also inviting each customer to donate $1 to raise funds to support local Los Angeles charities. All funds, up to [...]
Per my words in this week’s CityBeat:
Forget that “recessionary” looks to be on the fast track to being named Word of the Year – the second annual dineLA Restaurant Week is coming to ease your empty pockets. The event, which actually spans two weeks from January 25-30 and February 1-6, brings together restaurants throughout the [...]
If you like your Chinese cuisine a little closer to the country club, slip down Little Santa Monica Boulevard to Joss Cuisine in Beverly Hills for its Lunar New Year menu. Served from January 25-28, the restaurant is offering dishes like shark fin in a golden pumpkin bisque and sweet and sour lychee autumn fish. [...]
Korean blood sausage from this week’s District:
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Seoul Soondae ties together all the details you’d expect from a restaurant of its age: maroon booths buffed to a dull, diner-like sheen, regulars intimating orders with little more than a nod of the head. Seoul Soondae, after all, has been around for 20 years, helping to [...]
A San Pedro chicken specialist from the District:
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Whether by choice or necessity, San Pedro’s Sahara Chicken eschews the overwrought atmosphere of many Moroccan restaurants: There aren’t any tapestries slung over your head like the roof of some lazy tent; there aren’t any rusty hookahs or veiled belly dancers, either. Sahara Chicken is [...]
East LA’s mole master from today’s Times:
PHOTO by BARBARA DAVIDSON / LA TIMES
The multitude of moles at East Los Angeles’ Moles la Tía might just complete a culinary color wheel: Circle through the menu and you’ll find the cheery yellow of the passion fruit mole, the herbaceous green of the finas hierbas mole, the pristine ivory of the velo de [...]
