Dining In L.A.
Blog URL http://www.dininginla.com/
Located Los Angeles, California USA
Tags restaurant, reviews, dining
Personal notes about the myriad places to eat and absorb the intricacies of this sprawling, stylish, culturally-infused and conflicted city of Los Angeles.
Latest Blog Posts
- Pure Luck Restaurant on Nov 24, 2009 in Mexican American
What with Los Angeles City College looming nearby, a miniature culture has been striving to invent itself at the corner of Heliotrope and Melrose for a while now, businesses appearing and vanishing, the various shops not quite attaining a feeling of...
- Philippe the Original on Nov 20, 2009 in Deli American
The old-fashioned scent of sliced meat and jus permeates the corner of Alameda and Ord Street, where the blue baseball-style logo beckons. Phillipe's is the oldest continually operating restaurant in Los Angeles and claims (along with Cole's on Main...
- Sonia's Jamaican Cuisine on Nov 16, 2009 in The Valley Jamaican
Sonia's is the real deal north of Pico. They seem used to catering, or people zipping in to pick up a phone order, so they may look a bit surprised when you choose to actually sit at one of the six tables and eat there. Chances are about 50-50 that t...
- Tender Greens on Nov 13, 2009 in American
This is the gentlest and most rewarding thing you'll eat all day. The Salt & Pepper Chicken Sandwich is grilled to excellent firmness; it retains a little of the skin on it, peeling and crispy, adding touches of fat and flavor... -Dining in L.A.
- Tere's Mexican Grill on Nov 9, 2009 in Mexican Hollywood
I used to come to this unassuming spot for lunch when I worked in West Hollywood. Apparently, everyone else now does too, because there's usually a line and every table on the sidewalk patio is filled with handsome young people whom I pretend not to...
- Gobi Mongolian BBQ House on Nov 5, 2009 in Chinese
I'm sure we're all aware that when we were growing up in the mall, what the bored food court employees were sweeping around the surface of a hellishly hot iron circle was not remotely Mongolian. What we merrily call Mongolian BBQ is really a Taiwanes...
- Zankou Chicken on Nov 2, 2009 in Hollywood Armenian Lebanese
I'm a fan of shawerma and kebab and tabouleh and hummus anyway, but the Lebanese touch brings it closer to my heart. This miniature spit-roasted empire now has nearly a double handful of locations, but the original 1984 location is in East Hollywood.
