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Sari Sari Store Downtown Los Angeles

Sari Sari Store

Over the last year or so Filipino food has finally begun making its way into the spotlight of LA’s mainstream food media. It’s about time, given that city has the largest Filipino American population in the country. At popular restaurants...
Hayato Downtown Los Angeles

Hayato

Hayato, a shoebox of a restaurant nestled in the corner of the ROW DTLA, is just the type of place you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere other than Los Angeles. During the daytime, Chef Brandon Go, who cut his...
Adams Coffee Shop West Adams Los Angeles

Adams Coffee Shop

Adams Coffee Shop is an homage to the coffee shop’s role in American culture as an approachable meeting place that’s open to all. Adjacent to sister restaurant Alta Adams, it is also helmed by DC Patterson and LocoL alum Keith...
Mariscos Jalisco Boyle Heights Los Angeles

Mariscos Jalisco

Don’t be fooled by the pale imitations of Mariscos Jalisco food trucks in Boyle Heights: this is the only old school taco truck (aka lonchero) from San Juan de Los Lagos. You’ll taste the difference with their unbeatable taco de...
Triple Beam Pizza Highland Park Los Angeles

Triple Beam Pizza

The magic of Triple Beam Pizza is the al taglio method, which means you can try every type of pizza and not get full: have your pie and eat it too. These long Roman-style pizzas are cut with scissors and...

Langer’s

When Albert J. Langer opened Langer’s Deli in 1947, he had no idea that his Number 19 sandwich would be nicknamed “the Marilyn Monroe of pastrami sandwiches”, not that we would sell over ten million pounds of pastrami. The #19...
Orsa & Winston Downtown Los Angeles

Orsa & Winston

Orsa & Winston (named after the chef’s dogs) is a mix of Italian and Japanese influences, with creative pasta, seafood stews, donabe and breakfast omakase. It is the more formal spot from Josef Centeno, who reigns over Downtown LA with...
Raffi's Place Glendale Los Angeles

Raffi’s Place

Raffi’s Place is an Persian-Armenian institution in Glendale, as Rafik Bakijanian (65), his wife Gohar (69) and their son Armond (39) are about to celebrate the restaurant’s 25th anniversary. For a quarter of a century, Raffi’s Place has been serving...
Hummus bar & grill Tarzana Los Angeles

Hummus Bar & Grill

If you ever want to die from hummus overdose, Hummus Bar & Grill should be your number one choice. It’s fluffy, creamy, rich, and comes in different flavors: classic, pine nuts, roasted mushrooms, sabich, fava beans, and our favorite, mesabacha…...
Guerrilla Tacos Downtown Los Angeles

Guerrilla Tacos

In 2012, a small street stand had great ambitions: take tacos out of their straightjacket and treat them with the highest respect… a real mariachi-c mix. It became a food truck a little later, but Guerrilla Tacos is now a...