los angeles, eat here, katherine spiers Help Me Make This L.A'.s Go-To Food Coverage I'd love to get reader input as I improve the site and newsletter and make How to Eat L.A. the best Los Angeles food site on the internet.
eat here, alhambra, indian Eat Here: Very Spicy Stuff It's not all spicy, but it can definitely get spicy if you want.
history, tiki, don the beachcomber Tiki: A California Invention Tiki culture as we know it was invented in Hollywood — couldn't have happened anywhere else. And for added fun, the real mai tai recipe.
van nuys, long beach, caribbean Eat Here: The Best Carbs I would ask what your favorite is, but they're all the favorite.
columbo, history, studio city Sportsmen's Lodge: Where Hollywood Went Suburban Up until around the time it became Sportsmen's Lodge in 1942, this was a rural attraction, far away from most people at the end of a dirt road.
review, hungarian, encino Review: nokedli and paprika in the Valley L.A. gets more rain now. We need Hungarian food.
japanese, ramen, hollywood Eat Here: Multiple Islands in Two Restaurants Comfort food comes in so many forms.
columbo, history, beverly hills Chasen's Served the Most Expensive Beans in L.A. Los Angeles' most glittering restaurant specialized in chili. But Ronald Reagan loved the boiled beef.
eat here, chinese, southern Eat Here: Head North (and West) Restaurants are appearing in unexpected neighborhoods.
dessert, cake, ice cream Eat Here: Time for a Treat When you've got a sweet tooth. (And a savory tooth, too.)
history, hawaiian Kelbo's: 1986's 'Funkiest Place in L.A.' One of the great pleasures of writing about food and restaurant history is all the ephemera I come across.
history, pasadena, long beach Pup 'n' Taco: An Ideal SoCal Fast Food Chain Pup 'n' Taco thrived until it didn't, but it was never forgotten.
history, anaheim SoCal's version of the Greek diner Though I've never eaten at a Spires Family Restaurant, I do always notice them: I thought maybe the chain was founded by a very distant relative who forgot how to spell our name.
review, palmdale, antelope valley Review: a journey to West African food Los Angeles County is big. Sometimes a journey is in order to find something great.
hollywood, san gabriel, chinese Eat Here: Some New Contenders Relatively new restaurants that you need to add to your rotation.
history, columbo, ice cream No Ding-A-Lings in L.A. I am aghast to find that the Ding-A-Ling ice cream trucks depicted in season two, episode three of "Columbo" were not real.
pizza, eat here, silver lake Eat Here: Pizza Party A bunch of pizzas you might enjoy. Let's not fight about this.
history, hollywood The Hollywood barn where 3 million soldiers did the jitterbug The real one, on Cahuenga. Not the the one on Seward trying to steal its valor.
eat here, this weekend, bbq Eat Here: All-American The melting pot in action in L.A.'s most delicious restaurants.
history, tommy lasorda, downtown A Tommy Lasorda Cautionary Tale Tommy Lasorda was the Dodgers manager for 20 years, which is an undeniably high-profile job, but he wouldn't have been so famous and adored if it weren't for his love of food.
this weekend, eat here, mexican Eat Here: Various Pies, and Something Unexpected Sometimes you really misunderstand a restaurant.
history, columbo, taco truck An Early L.A. Catering Truck With Great Timing Of course, in the American style, it eventually turned into the "jam something in your piehole quick" food culture we have here.
review, pop up, west la Review: Two Food Pop-Ups That Made It It's said that if a restaurant lasts three years, it's a success. These two pop-ups have gone the distance, and I suspect will stick around much longer.
