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To Do: Holland Festival
If Indonesian cuisine is underrepresented in Southern California (locally available in Bellflower, Westwood, Rowland Heights and few places in between), true Dutch dishes are even more rare. That Dutch cooking shares some pastoral traits with the rest of continental Europe … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Fresh Foods Café
Business casual for the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Hours in the office don’t quite suppress an appetite, but they sure stifle it—hunger blunted and bludgeoned by the electric hum of copiers and computers and fluorescent lights. By the time … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Ma ’n Pa Grocery
A Long Beach staple for the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Measured against the bulldozed bulk of Long Beach history, Ma ’n Pa Grocery seems like a place that could’ve been easily erased from its adorable corner near the Colorado … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Baba Ghanouj
Long Beach’s newest Lebanese restaurant for the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Baba Ghanouj is brushed with the kind of rustic, earthen patina that colors all of Long Beach’s Lebanese restaurants, a brassy sheen that instantly cultivates an antique atmosphere. … Continue reading
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Leftovers: LB Hangover Helpers
Big breakfasts for the morning after from the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES It always seems like a good idea at first sip, a dehydrating desire born under that dim barroom light that can make anything (or sometimes anyone) seem … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Long Beach Fish Grill
Simple fish from the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Somewhere between the restaurants that source their seafood from Tsukiji and those that shake loose a few filets from a cardboard box is a whole culinary gulf where the ocean isn’t … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Tantalizingly Thai
Regional plates from this week’s District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES Like orange chicken and the California roll before it, pad Thai has been folded right into the American appetite, a dish so popular it’s now the barometer by which many … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Chiltepe
Salvadoran classics from North Long Beach: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES You can see the torch-like tower for blocks, a monument to the movie-going experience that scrapes the sky with bubblegum-colored stripes. It rises up from the Atlantic Theatre, a pink … Continue reading
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Leftovers: Five Guys and MVP
A dual review of Five Guys Burgers and Fries and MVP Grill and Patio from the District: PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES It’s been more than 50 years, but Southern California’s burger business is as crowded as ever. Those looking to … Continue reading
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