Blue Corn Quesadilla Lady
The Blue Corn Quesadilla Lady is a long-time Echo Park legend. For any Eastsider in the know, it signals a great day ahead to see the cheerful colors of her rainbow umbrella peeking out from the side of a parking...
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Sage Vegan Bistro
The original Sage Vegan Bistro location in Echo Park is an Eastside fixture and a staple in the vegan food scene. But don’t get vegan confused with über-healthy or dainty; Sage serves some of the heartiest and most wickedly satisfying...
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...
Cookbook
Cookbook is a miniature market with European-style high-quality produce, meat, cheese, as well as freshly baked Bub and Grandma’s bread. There’s also fresh-cut flowers, homemade pasta, Mast chocolate, Café Fanny granola and some prepared foods, derived from a different cookbook...
Triniti
There are almost too many reasons to love Triniti. It was opened by Chef Joseph Geiskopf who used to work at Noma, Septime, and Destroyer (on top of being a personal chef for Apple’s Tim Cook), although he has left...
Cosa Buona
LA isn’t lacking in high-end pizza (Pizzeria Mozza, Pizzana…), but Cosa Buona is the casual red sauce joint we desperately needed. At his follow up restaurant to Alimento, Zack Pollack turns out soul-satisfying Italian-American dishes that wouldn’t feel out of place...
Guisados
Guisados is a family affair: Armando De La Torre Sr. takes orders, his son is in the kitchen, and her grandchildren at the tables. And their tacos live up to their reputation. Made on site every day in their Boyle...
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...
Valerie Confections
Like Jessica Koslow and her Sqirl jams, Valerie Gordon built her empire on her sweet tooth. In 2013, she began making toffees with her beau, Stan Weightman Jr.. Thirteen years later, Valerie’s Confections has three locations, and goes through 2000...
Honey Hi
There are restaurants that pretend to be healthy, and there’s Honey Hi. Owned by two resplendent healthy gals (one of which is a nutritionist), it is a cute wooden hut that makes you want to take care of yourself. All...