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Tallulas Santa Monica Los Angeles

Tallula’s

Tallula’s has been more publicized because of their unfairly low Yelp ratings than for their food. That’s a shame because with celebrated chefs Jeremy Fox and Mario Alberto at the helm, with Santa Monica’s most acclaimed restaurateurs (Josh Loeb and...
ConiSeafood Inglewood Los Angeles

Coni’Seafood

Changes are you’re not about fly down to Mexico City tonight to have dinner at Contramar and order the pescado a la talla. But option number 2 would be driving to LAX and stopping at Coni’Seafood on your way there....
Pa Ord East Hollywood Los Angeles

Pa Ord Noodle

Don’t be fooled: at Pa Ord, you want to order carefully because even their mild dishes are on the fiery side. Get the kuay tiew rua, i.e. boat noodles (they used to be sold from small boats along Bangkok canals),...
Sticky Rice Downtown Los Angeles

Sticky Rice

Sticky Rice is the closest thing you’ll ever get to a Thai street-stall meal in Los Angeles. There are very few fie items on their menu at Grand Central Market, and they give the utmost attention to each and every...
Kazunori Santa Monica Los Angeles

KazuNori

Sometimes, spin-offs happen to be better than the original version — that’s almost never the case, but KazuNori is an excellent example. Not that Sugarfish is bad, but there are sushi restaurants all over Los Angeles that deserve your attention...
Croissants Proof Bakery Atwater Village Los Angeles

Proof

“The proof is in the pudding”, they say. Well it is also in this financier which is a big as a fist, if a fist could have such a good buttery smell. But the proof is also in this rhubarb...
Lasa Downtown Chinatown Los Angeles

Lasa

Former pop-up now all grown up, Lasa was once an ephemeral restaurant in Alvin Cailan’s (Eggslut) Unit 120, then became the centerpiece of Far East Plaza for lunch and dinner. The Valencia brothers run the place, Chase in the dining...
Wax Paper Frogtown Atwater Village Los Angeles

Wax Paper

It’s hard to find a more hipster sandwich shop in Los Angeles, but we love this one because they almost didn’t do it on purpose: Wax Paper is made out of shipping containers in Frogtown near the LA river, and...
Side Chick Arcadia Los Angeles

Side Chick

In the outdoor section of Westfield’s food court, there’s a chicken connoisseur: Johnny Lee, barely 30, cooks some of the best Hainan chicken in Los Angeles. There are other Chinese and Singaporean specialties, but we come here for the chicken...
Botanica Silverlake Los Angeles

Botanica

If it’s your first time at Botanica, avoid the weekend brunch and pretend you’re a regular: go for a weekday breakfast or an ‘apéro’. Sit on the patio, and you’ll be at the epicenter of the Silverlake trend: millennial pink...