Best of LA: Eat
Tacos Villa Corona
3185 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90039
323-661-3458
For 20 years this family-run taco hut has rolled the best breakfast burritos in town. Lard-free flour tortillas are stuffed with a perfect amalgam of scrambled eggs, low-fat mozzarella, grilled potatoes, onion, cilantro, and house-made salsa.
Neighborhood: Atwater Village
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Mexican food, Restaurants
Tavern
11648 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90049
310-806-6464
There’s a nod to Old Hollywood here, from the atrium populated with famous folks to the menu, which skews vintage with Suzanne Goin’s versions of “devils on horseback,” Gulf shrimp cocktail, and Julia Child’s sinus-clearing ode to Dijon, Devil’s Chick.
Website: http://tavernla.com
Neighborhood: Brentwood, Los Angeles
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Californian, Restaurants, Salads
The Milk Shop
7290 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-939-6455
If you ask the legions of high schoolers who flock here during the café’s late-summer hours, they’ll steer you to the Milkie Way
Website: http://themilkshop.com
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Cafe, Restaurants
The Proper
464 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge, CA, 91011
818-790-4888
Ask for “the bible” upon arrival and your server will scurry off to retrieve the pride and joy of the flintridge Proper: the gin list
Website: http://www.theproper.com
Category: American, Best of LA, Best of LA 2015: Eat, Best of LA: 2015, Best of LA: Eat, Breakfast/Brunch
Tortas Ahogadas Guadalajara
6042 Santa Fe Ave., Huntington Park, CA
323-587-3115
Guadalajara’s most famous export might be the torta ahogada, or drowned sandwich
Neighborhood: Huntington Park
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Mexican food, Restaurants
Umami Burger
Multiple Addresses, Los Angeles, CA, 90027
323-669-3922
If you’re after beeflike satisfaction without the mock-meat taste, your answer—as with most things burger related—is Umami Burger.
Website: http://www.umami.com
Neighborhood: Los Feliz
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Eat, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Eat, Burgers, Restaurants
Underwood Family Farms
3370 Sunset Valley Rd., Moorpark, CA, 93021
805-529-3690
Urban kids can wander around vegetable patches at Underwood Family Farms. During the fall harvest festival, they can ride a buckboard pulled by a 1950 John Deere tractor.
Website: http://underwoodfamilyfarms.com
Category: Arts & Entertainment, Baby, Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: Eat, Local Attractions, Shopping
UnUrban CoffeeHouse
3301 Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90404
(310) 315-0056
Before the $7 slow-pour, single-origin trend turned drinking caffeine into an exercise of high snobbery, there existed a different kind of coffeehouse. It was a communal place where you picked up flyers for open-mic nights. The dream of the ’90s is alive in Santa Monica at UnUrban CoffeeHouse.
Neighborhood: Santa Monica
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Eat, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Eat, Coffee/Tea, Restaurants
Valerie Confections
213-739-8149
Valerie Gordon believes every great bonbon tells a story
Website: http://valerieconfections.com
Neighborhood: Westlake
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Candy Stores, Shopping
Veggie Sandwich
2902 Knox Ave, Los Angeles, CA, 90039
(323) 284-8857
Cucumbers are cut razor thin, sprouts are strewn with a discriminating hand, and shredded cheddar covers every inch
Website: http://www.waxpaperco.com/
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA: 2016, Best of LA: Eat, Best of LA: Eat
Vito’s Pizza
846 N. La Cienega Blvd., Beverly Grove, CA
310-652-6859
Sometimes a whole pie is too much to manage, ya know what we’re sayin’?
Website: http://vitopizza.com
Neighborhood: Beverly Grove
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Pizza, Restaurants
Wine Bar
13456 Ventura Blvd,, Sherman Oaks, CA, 91423
(818) 990-0938
The Sherman Oaks man-cave-cum- honky-tonk is totally modern in its mix of inquisitive crowd, good vittles, and broad wine selection meant to be shared. At AUGUSTINE peckish patrons can delight in how pork schnitzel brings out the rustic shade in a carignan. If you’ve ever wanted to try, say, a ’71 bordeaux, you’re in luck: […]
Website: http://www.augustinewinebar.com/
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA: 2016, Best of LA: Eat, Best of LA: Eat
Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air
701 Stone Canyon Rd., Los Angeles, CA, 90077
A simple basket of sliced carbs won’t do at Wolfgang Puck at Hotel Bel-Air, where pastry chef Sherry Yard is behind this elaborate quartet that rises above the rest.
Website: https://hotelbelair.com
Neighborhood: Bel-Air
Category: Bakery/Bagel/Donut, Best of LA, Best of LA 2012: Eat, Best of LA: 2012, Best of LA: Eat, Restaurants
Yang Chow
819 N. Broadway, Chinatown, CA, 90012
213 625 - 0811
Chinatown’s Yang Chow opened in 1977 and ensured the goopy guilty pleasure achieved citywide fame.
Website: http://www.yangchow.com/
Neighborhood: Chinatown
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Eat, Best of LA 2014: Eat, Best of LA: 2013, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Eat, Chinese, Restaurants
