Los Angeles Archive

37 QUINTESSENTIAL RESTAURANTS FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA

By Larry Levine - What is the quintessential restaurant in San Francisco? How about Los Angeles? Sacramento? San Diego? New York? Chicago? Boston? We put those questions to the co-hosts of our sister web site – www.atLarrys.com, where we do restaurant recommendations – and quickly learned the answers get more complicated the more you think [...]
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IT STARTED WITH TAPAS / how small plates swept the nation

By Larry Levine – It started with tapas. About 10 or 11 years ago the Spanish appetizers hit the shores of the U.S. in a big way and quickly spread across the nation. First it was a spate of tapas restaurants. They did so well that other restaurants felt pressure to include tapas sections on [...]
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MUSSO AND FRANK GRILL – Where history meets the future in Hollwyood

By Larry Levine - It began innocently enough: Jennifer and I had dinner at Musso and Frank Grill in Hollywood a few months ago. When we got home, I informed my facebook friends of the latest wonderful meal we just had at this legendary restaurant. It quickly transition into pure panic: My friend Ric Torres [...]
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PHILIPPE vs. COLE’S – A Down Town French Dip Showdown

By Larry Levine - Los Angeles gets a bad rap when it comes to preservation of historical icons. The locals bring it on themselves with their crusades for landmark status for the original golden arches or the oldest remaining Bob’s Big Boy restaurant. On the other hand there are the Bradbury Building built in 1893, [...]
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TIME TRAVELING IN LOS ANGELES – He took us 150 years in four blocks in San Francisco; Now it’s 90 years in just seconds in L.A.

By Larry Sheingold - There’s a time machine in downtown Los Angeles. It’s called Angels Flight – the world’s shortest railway. This restored relic now travels 90 years in less than a minute. L.A.’s rapid transit between Nouveau and Oldvo. You board in Bunker Hill’s redeveloped world of water features, sushi, Starbucks and Casa, the [...]
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A View from Two Coasts

By Larry Levine What do the River Café in Brooklyn and the Lobster, 1 Pico and Catch in Santa Monica have in common? All three defy the old adage about the impossibility of getting good food and a good view at the same place by the water’s edge. The River Café is in Brooklyn Heights, [...]
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