When the former owner of Baroo starts a new Korean restaurant in the same spot, you leave everything else and run. BBQ+Rice is a minuscule restaurant hidden away on a strip mall, like most of the greatest LA restaurants are....
Taste of Tehran is a hole-in-the-wall, but it’s such a good hole-in-the-wall. Come here for a variety of kabobs, also with the traditional fluffy Persian rice with saffron butter. It’s not always available, but try try the Cornish hen kabob...