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| Beverly Hills Sushi | 
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| July 16, 2008 - Before there was Matsuhisa, before there was Nozawa, there was Katsu Michite, the acknowledged sushi master of Los... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +74% | Westwood American |
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| July 16, 2008 - The Nine Thirty restaurant might be the last place you would expect to find a culinary epiphany in Los Angeles... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Marina Del Rey Sushi |
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| July 09, 2008 - Kazunori Nozawa is well-known as the sushi tyrant of Studio City, the chef who made his reputation almost as much for... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel | ||
| July 02, 2008 - Xinjiang barbecue is one of the most compelling snacks in the world, thin skewers of charred lamb snatched bubbling... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Downtown | ||
| July 02, 2008 - It may be a little strange to start a review by praising a restaurant's tap water, but Wood Spoon's really is the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +94% | Santa Monica French | |
| June 25, 2008 - Alain Giraud may be one of the least-known great chefs in America. He was overshadowed by Michel Richard during his... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Alhambra Dim Sum | ||
| June 25, 2008 - It's 107 degrees in the San Gabriel Valley sun, a blasting heat with a sulfurous, hydrocarbon edge, and the sweating... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Mid-City West |
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| June 18, 2008 - In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, let there be bacon, and there was bacon. And... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +62% | Downtown International and California |
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| June 18, 2008 - Fred Eric is the house madman of Los Angeles cooking, the screaming id, the chef who has been most likely to succeed... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| La Canada Flintridge Tapas/Small Plates and California |
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| June 11, 2008 - The march of the wine bars continues, small plates and boutique vintages, glasses of Bourguiel and Bierzo sneaking... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Korea Town Korean |
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| June 04, 2008 - A spitting cauldron of superheated liquid on a tabletop burner, ejecting droplets of orange goo and puffs of... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| West Hollywood California |
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| June 04, 2008 - Six years ago, I flew to England with the express purpose of getting thrown out of Gordon Ramsay's restaurant on... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Glendale American |
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| May 28, 2008 - Chef Octavio Becerra has been a loyal accomplice to Joachim Splichal since the Smiths were still playing live... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Hollywood Barbecue |
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| May 28, 2008 - If you have ever poked your head into a restaurant serving northern Thai cooking, you have probably encountered nam... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Echo Park | ||
| May 21, 2008 - Some restaurants emerge fully formed, rough edges smoothed by architects and restaurant consultants, menus run... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City | ||
| May 21, 2008 - Jammed into a strip mall, sharing a parking lot with a doughnut parlor, a kebab house and a check-cashing emporium... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Century City | ||
| May 11, 2008 - If star DJs can jet from city to city, rocking essentially the same house in cities from Berlin to Dubai to Los... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +77% | Hermosa Beach American and Seafood |
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| May 07, 2008 - Caitlin Stansbury is one of L.A.'s rock-star sommeliers, a whip-thin woman with the haunted eyes of a lead guitarist... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City | ||
| May 07, 2008 - It is undeniably pleasant, the new Father's Office Los Angeles, a gastronomically inclined bar fitted into the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +62% | Little Tokyo Japanese |
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| April 30, 2008 - Los Angeles' Little Tokyo neighborhood has often been considered the cradle of real Japanese cooking in America... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Monterey Park | ||
| April 23, 2008 - Shoehorned into a former Hawaiian barbecue place, near where Monterey Park runs smack into East L.A., Cook's is a new... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| West Hollywood Steakhouse |
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| April 16, 2008 - Here they come, the New York restaurateurs, installing clones of their flagships in expensive dining rooms in the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +60% | Santa Monica Middle Eastern |
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| April 16, 2008 - The Syrian restaurant Sham comes alive on Sundays at noon, still early enough to catch crunchy, spice-crusted disks... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +62% | Silver Lake Coffee | |
| April 09, 2008 - I confess: I'm kind of crushed out on La Mill. I know the coffee shrine is more bourgeois than a lot of... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Wilshire Center Thai | ||
| April 02, 2008 - From the window of a car, Khun Dom may look like the least-promising Thai restaurant in Los Angeles, a weary, faded... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +93% | Pasadena American |
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| April 02, 2008 - In Phoenix, the original La Grande Orange, a bistro-ish place with a knack for deviled eggs and spicy cheeseburgers... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Santa Monica | ||
| March 26, 2008 - Ibérico ham, the latest obsession of the food world, is the well-aged product of cosseted Spanish pigs, at its best... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Hollywood | ||
| March 26, 2008 - Waffles are kind of a big thing in Hollywood. Roscoe's has been serving Harlem-style chicken and waffles to R&B stars... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City American and Bakery | ||
| March 19, 2008 - The best restaurant in Culver City? Half a dozen could claw for the title. But although eco-friendliness is a... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| West Hollywood Japanese |
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| March 12, 2008 - Nobu Matsuhisa is the most influential Japanese chef in the United States, the father of a strange, original cuisine... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +82% | Downtown Latin American, Cuban and Spanish |
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| March 05, 2008 - There is something magic about a leap year, a year divisible by four. In November, you get to vote against the evil... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Pasadena | ||
| February 27, 2008 - If you are a person who thinks more of human happiness than the state of her teeth, you probably have a bag of Little... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +71% | Korea Town Barbecue | |
| February 20, 2008 - Every self-respecting Korean-barbecue enthusiast has at least a small portfolio of restaurants to be pulled out for... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +81% | Beverly Hills Seafood |
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| January 30, 2008 - Like a powerful army with connections at the farmers' market, Joachim Splichal's conquering forces continue to march... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel Seafood | ||
| January 16, 2008 - Is there a contest for the best steamed fish head in the San Gabriel Valley? Because if there is, the example at the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City Sandwiches/Subs | ||
| January 09, 2008 - In the crook of a Sepulveda curve, just down the street from Tito's Tacos, Jasmine Market is an unassuming takeout... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Long Beach | ||
| January 02, 2008 - Atop a newish mini-mall in Artesia's Little India, Tirupathi Bhimas is a glowing flying saucer of a restaurant, a... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +73% | West Hollywood French |
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| December 12, 2007 - The cheeseburger paradigm has shifted a lot of times over the last several years, and I have been privileged to taste... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel Dim Sum and Seafood |
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| December 12, 2007 - Nothing excites a veteran San Gabriel Valley eater like a cheap-eats ad in the local Chinese papers and a string of... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Santa Monica Pizza |
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| December 05, 2007 - Discussions of the virtues of the artisanal pies at places like Mozza, Antica Pizzeria and Caioti are often conducted... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| West Hollywood Pizza |
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| December 05, 2007 - Discussions of the virtues of the artisanal pies at places like Mozza, Antica Pizzeria and Caioti are often conducted... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +80% | Hollywood Italian and Pizza | |
| November 28, 2007 - The smell of paint was still heavy in the air last week, the grand entrance still resembled a construction site, and... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +63% | Pasadena Tacos | |
| November 21, 2007 - Have you ever seen a plate of carne asada fries? If done properly, the dish is an awesome assemblage, a totem of... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +57% | Mid-City West Italian | |
| November 21, 2007 - The strangest thing about Terroni may be the name of the restaurant, a pejorative term for southern Italians slung... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City Burgers and Barbecue |
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| November 14, 2007 - You may have visited barbecue stands built around tall chimneys, barbecue stands surrounded by dozens of barrel... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Pasadena | ||
| November 14, 2007 - I was not surprised to find myself in a tapas bar yesterday, contemplating a glass of '98 Clos des Mouches premier... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +65% | Mid-City West French and Bakery |
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| November 06, 2007 - Imagine an unsweetened bowl of oatmeal, tinted leprechaun green with puréed parsley, flavored with garlic, swimming... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| East Los Angeles Mexican |
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| October 31, 2007 - Most Los Angeles Mexican restaurants once seemed to be more or less the same, bastions of enchilada dinners and soggy... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Westwood | ||
| October 31, 2007 - In Chicago a few years ago, as the nation's food press frothed about the city's role at the front of the molecular... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +83% | Mid-City West American and California |
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| October 24, 2007 - Twenty-five years ago, Michael's, the Santa Monica restaurant that helped jump-start California cuisine, was famous... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +76% | Santa Monica Italian |
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| October 24, 2007 - Valentino has long been L.A.'s ultimate special-occasion Italian restaurant, a bells-and-whistles place where you... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +82% | Eagle Rock Italian and Pizza |
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| October 17, 2007 - The first time I stepped into Casa Bianca, I knew it was the pizza parlor I had always hoped to find in California... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City | ||
| October 17, 2007 - There can be beauty even in a quick-serve office-building canteen - Josiah Citrin and Rafael Lunetta taught us that... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +85% | West Hollywood Sushi and Japanese | |
| October 10, 2007 - The southwest corner of Kings Road and Melrose is where good restaurants go to die, the original address of Ma Maison... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +84% | Eagle Rock Southern & Soul |
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| October 10, 2007 - Blink and you'll miss Larkin's, a converted house in a newly refurbished corner of Eagle Rock, just a few yards from... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +68% | Culver City French and Italian |
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| September 26, 2007 - In the new Culver City, where the creative arts are to the city's job base what automobiles are to Detroit... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel Chinese | ||
| September 26, 2007 - There are a lot of new Sichuan restaurants in Los Angeles - real ones, staffed by chefs from Chung-king or Chengdu... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| West Hollywood | ||
| September 19, 2007 - To the small, food-obsessed population of Angelenos who know the difference between a sliver Jabugo ham and a chunk... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Alhambra Seafood | ||
| September 19, 2007 - In the 18 hours and 43 minutes since my last meal at Boiling Crab, I have taken three showers, washed my hands thirty... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Monterey Park Pizza | ||
| September 12, 2007 - At the bottom tip of Monterey Park, in a neighborhood better known for its tacos than for anything Chinese, Bollini's... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Westwood Middle Eastern | ||
| September 12, 2007 - Even the quickest glance into Flame, the slick Iranian restaurant on the Tehrangeles stretch of Westwood Boulevard... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| East Los Angeles Mexican and Sandwiches/Subs |
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| September 05, 2007 - This column was supposed to be about Las Nuevas, the popular sandwich shop in the Calle Primero district of East L.A... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| East Los Angeles Mexican and Sandwiches/Subs |
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| September 05, 2007 - This column was supposed to be about Las Nuevas, the popular sandwich shop in the Calle Primero district of East L.A... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Downtown Japanese | ||
| September 05, 2007 - The first thing you should know about Takami, a new Japanese-ish restaurant on top of the 811 Wilshire building... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +71% | Pacoima | |
| August 29, 2007 - For some people, discussions of Lenchita's begin with the massive weekend lines: Pacoima's minivan set, Dodger-lidded... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +79% | West Hollywood Burgers and Hot Dogs |
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| January 31, 2007 - Los Angeles was once famous for restaurants and cafés where you could eat inside buildings that resembled bull... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +66% | Hollywood Middle Eastern | |
| January 17, 2007 - If you want to receive more hate stares per second than a Wal-Mart executive at an L.A. Conservancy meeting, you... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +75% | Alhambra Dim Sum and Chinese |
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| January 10, 2007 - Dim sum of the moment: The Kitchen's fried green- tea dumplings (Photos by Anne Fishbein) A great dim sum meal is the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +68% | Alhambra Seafood and Chinese |
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| January 10, 2007 - Dim sum of the moment: The Kitchen's fried green- tea dumplings (Photos by Anne Fishbein) A great dim sum meal is the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +71% | Hollywood Italian and Pizza |
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| January 03, 2007 - Reasonable minds in Los Angeles may differ on matters concerning child rearing, the Lakers and the precise... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +69% | South Los Angeles Burgers | |
| December 13, 2006 - If you are looking for a proper representation of hellfire, the grill at Dino's Burgers may be as close as you will... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +75% | Beverly Hills Steakhouse and American |
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| December 06, 2006 - Have you ever tasted Kobe beef? Not the admittedly decent Idaho-raised wagyu /Angus cow, but the real stuff, the $200... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Van Nuys Seafood | ||
| November 15, 2006 - A good pastel de choclo is magnificent to see, an enormous concoction, bubbling in its earthenware vessel, browned... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +58% | West Hollywood Desserts/Ice Cream | |
| October 25, 2006 - Have you ever been to Pinkberry on a balmy Saturday? It's really a scene. Lines spill down the block and through the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Little Tokyo Japanese | ||
| September 27, 2006 - The last time I went to Izayoi , a sleekly modern izakaya on the edge of Little Tokyo, my party was seated in a front... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +68% | Mid-City West American and French |
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| September 13, 2006 - Every generation of L.A. restaurateurs has had its own idea of what a useful restaurant might be, from Musso and... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +52% | Monterey Park Chinese |
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| September 06, 2006 - Initial reports on the new Macau Street have focused on the fried duck chins, the grilled chicken knees and the... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +62% | Mid-City West American |
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| August 30, 2006 - Simon L.A., the new restaurant in the Sofitel across the Beverly Center, is not a bad place to experience a giant... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| North Hollywood Thai | ||
| August 23, 2006 - A mile south of the more glamorous precincts of North Hollywood's Thaitown, in a mini-mall populated by tattooed... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +80% | Culver City American and California |
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| August 16, 2006 - In Italy as in China , styles of cooking can shift substantially in the space of just a few minutes on the highway... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +67% | Hollywood American and California |
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| August 02, 2006 - Here's the beef: Steak, grits and eggs. There are many ways to enjoy bacon at Square One Dining , which, if it didn't... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +57% | Glassell Park Mexican | |
| July 19, 2006 - Today's subject: the potato taco or, to be more specific, the wonderment of civilization that is the potato taco at... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +58% | San Gabriel American and Sandwiches/Subs | |
| July 05, 2006 - Tell me what you want to try, said Sam Samaniego, gesturing toward his bank of beer-filled refrigerators. ""Then I'll... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +65% | Monterey Park Chinese and Dim Sum |
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| May 31, 2006 - From the week it opened last year, New Concept was celebrated as a beacon of Chinese cuisine in Los Angeles, an... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +63% | Culver City American |
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| May 17, 2006 - It was not so long ago that downtown Culver City was the closest thing to a slum in the entire Westside. Peppered... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +73% | Santa Monica American and California |
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| April 12, 2006 - The current aesthetic of Los Angeles restaurant design suggests that certain of its architects might spend more than... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Culver City | ||
| April 05, 2006 - Brazilian cooking is incredibly diverse , ranging from the jungly cassava-based cooking of Minas Gerais to the spicy... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +70% | Hollywood American |
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| March 22, 2006 - The Kobe beef cheeseburger Photos by Anne Fishbein It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel | ||
| March 15, 2006 - A Nanjing duck is cold and ghostly white, a seemingly goose-fleshed fowl that has been pressed, cooked and brined... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +72% | Gardena Noodle Shop and Japanese | |
| March 08, 2006 - Reasonable minds can differ on the relative merits of one hamburger stand or another. Some guys become surreally... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| Alhambra | ||
| March 01, 2006 - There may be northern Chinese cafés more anonymous-looking than 101 Noodle Express , but I haven't found them yet: a... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +52% | Beverly Hills Steakhouse and American |
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| February 22, 2006 - Do I love The Lodge for its double-fisted Tanqueray martinis or for the thick-cut pepper bacon put out like peanuts... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +56% | Culver City | |
| December 08, 2005 - A warm, vanilla-scented cream puff from Beard Papa Sweets Café is the thinking foodie's latest object of desire, a... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +75% | Hollywood Asian, Chinese and Dim Sum |
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| February 10, 2005 - Kate, a food-writer friend of mine in New York, is a connoisseur of restaurant disasters, of overenthusiastically... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| San Gabriel | ||
| April 08, 2004 - The Taiwanese noodle shop is a peculiar animal, devoted to noodles, thick soups and a never-ending selection of small... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +79% | Mid-City West California, American and French |
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| December 18, 2003 - It's a terrible and telling moment when, squeezing into your place along the banquette, your butt manages to tip... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| +70% | Venice Sandwiches/Subs, American and Italian |
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| October 23, 2003 - I drove right by Stroh's Gourmet, a small corner shop on Abbot Kinney, my first time there. I called for the exact... full review at LA Weekly | ||
| North Hollywood | ||
| August 07, 2003 - It ain't on Atkins. In fact, pie isn't sanctioned on any diet. It's fattening. Darn fattening. Unless you're baling... full review at LA Weekly |
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