GTong wrote: > Would appreciate any suggestions for good food in Los Angeles. I don't > want anything expensive--just a good value in the $10-15 range like the > ones we find in the Bay Area. try langers for jewish style food. they make their own pastrami and dill pickles. the nytimes has said they make the best pastrami in the country. I dunno about that, but it's the best i've had. adr to send email, make me sirius
Los Angeles, CA
Need LA dining recommendations
Whew! Los Angeles is a mighty big place, and your $10-15 dollar range is not helping me pin anything down very easily. Here is some suggestions for... Mexican: Las Fuentes in Reseda. El Indio in Northridge Diner/breakfast: The Pantry (LA) Burgers: Tommys (the original at Beverly and Rampart) BBQ: in the Valley Rosie's BBQ (Tampa and Nordhoff in Northridge) Bear Pit BBQ (Mission Hills on Sepulvada where it meets 118 freeway) and for a newsgroup, you may want to ask la.general for a food one! Have Fun... Karen O'Mara
I was down recently and my son took me to "The Pantry" in what I'd call downtown LA. Been there almost 75 years. Only for a meat lover, though the atmosphere is pretty neat. They just serve steaks, chops, roast pork with a very limited choice of sides: mashed or fried potatoes with soggy green beans. The waiters and staff are rumored to be ex-cons. I know I'm painting a pretty bleak picture here, but the place was pretty much fun, great people watching, etc. The prices were within your range, too. GTong wrote: > > Hipsters wrote: > > > Whew! Los Angeles is a mighty big place, and your $10-15 dollar range is not > > helping me pin anything down very easily. > > Should have thought of that. Thanks for the reminder. I'll be in so-called > downtown L.A. Long drives are common down there but I'd prefer to avoid > them. > > Thanks also for the suggestions. > > -- > To reply, remove ".out".
SF may have a lot of restaurants per capita, but that says nothing about quality. For example, I've noticed that the average Thai restaurant in Sonoma Co. blows the doors off same in SF. LA is a much larger area than SF, so it makes more sense to compare LA to the entire ba. I personally don't think one is better or worse than the other. They both have thousands of hole-in-the-wall ethnic spots. A few of these, in both areas, are excellent. The same can be said of any kind of restaurant you want to mention. In general, I think the ba has better and more fresh seafood than LA. An important exception is sushi. I think LA has more and better high-end sushi spots than the ba. Also, while the ba has great fresh seafood, finding it prepared well can be a bit of a problem. Seattle puts us to shame, on that level. One of my favorite spots in LA is El Coyote on Sunset, east of the main part of Hollywood. Not so much for the food, which is just OK, but for the campy atmosphere (broken mirror art, black velvet paintings), the interesting clientele, and especially for the margaritas. The green corn tamales are one of the better things on the menu. Will