tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24183883945004827972026-03-25T12:20:28.005-07:00the most expensive foodAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198707832904348329noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2418388394500482797.post-61396041535841031902015-12-11T15:22:00.000-08:002015-12-11T15:22:00.327-08:00

According to several management-level sources at El Coyote, Marjorie Christofferson has submitted her resignation, both as a member of the restaurant's corporate board and as an employee. "Margie submitted her resignation today," manager Billy Schoeppner told me last Thursday. "I just got off the phone with her. She was crying."This is the emotional result of the boycott of El Coyote launched

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LA KOREALos Angeles Farmers Market6333 W 3rd StLos Angeles, CA‎Stall # 510 (323) 936-3930If you're like me, and you live in Hollywood, you're going to be spending a little more time at The Grove than you'd like. Schlepping from the Apple Store to Crate and Barrel, bags and shopping list akimbo. That case you got for a stocking stuffer just won't fit your mate's old iPod, you're considering

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Ulysses Voyage6333 W. Third St.Los Angeles, CA 90036(323) 939-9728M-Thurs. 11am - 10:30pmF-S 11am - 11:30 pmSunday 9am - 11:30pmMC, VISA, AMEXI know the stated purpose of this blog is to explore cheap ethnic eats in LA. I've decided that's both too limiting and too vague. After all, everything is ethnic to someone else, "cheap" is subjective, and I've been doing some extensive research into

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Mashti Malone's1525 N La Brea Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90028(323) 874-6168143 N Maryland AveGlendale, CA 91206(818) 662-0400www.mashtimalone.comGoogle Local MapYou folks with sweet teeth must think I hate you. I've been raving on here for over a year, post after post about appetizers and main courses: steak, tacos, sushi, noodles, tofu, you name it... and not once have I mentioned dessert. Fact is, I

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The time has nearly come to move further discussion of the El Coyote Boycott off of my food blog, and get back to describing the sweetness of a caramelized onion or a perfectly charred steak. El Coyote has become just one part of a much wider political, social, and legal issue, which I'm interested in and will continue to discuss over at infinitejess.blogspot.com. In fact, if you go there now

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I'm going to have to start posting some smaller items, so that you my readers have material to check out more often than the once a week or less I find time to post a full review with photographs and all. So let me just say this today. Have all of you who love good cheap eats tried the $1.49 Crispy Fish Taco at Del Taco? I know, all the real foodies believe you can't find any really decent

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Rodolfo's8 Olvera StLos Angeles, CA 90012(213) 625-8501Google MapYou may recall that some time ago, I posted a near-encyclopedic review of the numerous taquito stands lining the East side of Olvera Street. I concluded that while Cielito Lindo is the most famous, the best was Juanita's Cafe. I apologized at the end of the review for having mis-calculated my taquito intake on the way up the

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I was out of the office yesterday, and so was unable to report on yesterday's meeting between management of El Coyote and local members of the gay community upset about the revelation that a member of El Coyote's family ownership had made a personal, $100 donation to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign. I can be saved the time of describing the meeting blow by blow, as there is a factually correct

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My novel, MY NAME IS WILL, is a cautionary tale about the danger of mixing politics and religion. I gave our friend Margie, the niece of the owners of El Coyote, a copy last week, but I doubt she's read it yet; now she's learning the lesson the hard way.Margie appeared on a list of donors to the Yes on Prop. 8 campaign, which has led to calls for a boycott. Now as you know, I spend a lot of

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Yuca's2056 Hillhurst AveLos Angeles, CA 90027(323) 662-1214Mon - Sat. 9-6Cash OnlyClick here for Google Info & MapAt this moment, Sa’s cooking dinner for me and I’m sure it’s going to be delicious. But the fact is I’m still full from my lunch today. I took her to Yuca’s Tacos & Burritos, and I had to keep ordering tacos to, you know, research this post.For those of you who haven’t had the

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I had big plans today. I was going to work the Obama phone banks, then try to find somewhere where I could get a classic American hot dog and a slice of apple pie. I was going to photograph it for you, to get you all warm and fuzzy about the U.S. of A. so that if you hadn't voted yet, I could inspire you to go out and do so.I worked the phone banks, me and Donald Sutherland. I was calling

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Lupe's Mexican Restaurant1710 Thousand Oaks Blvd.Thousand Oaks, CA(805) 495-3573Maps and Info at Yelp.comThis is the very first restaurant I ever went to. My memory of that first visit is as blurry as this dying-battery photo. Yet I do remember it, even though I could only have been 2 or 3 at the time. Lupe's used to be set back about 50 yards from Thousand Oaks Blvd., tucked into the oak

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Sushi Dan8000 W. Sunset Blvd., #A2020Los Angeles, CA 90046(323) 848-8583Google Info11056 Ventura Blvd.Studio City, CA 91604(818) 985-2254Google InfoI know the stated purpose of this blog is to identify "cheap ethnic eats," which evokes (as it should) images of holes-in-the-wall in Koreatown, Thaitown, Little Tokyo, and East L.A.. I suppose, Sushi Dan is "ethnic," as mush as the ubiquitous raw

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MISHIMA8474 West 3rd Street, #108Los Angeles, CA 90048323.782.0181Google Local InfoI seem to spend more and more of my life these days at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, for the general poking, prodding, screening, testing, and tweaking that comes with middle age. (Since when did 47 become middle age, anyway? If I wasn't so tired all the time , I might protest!) Of course I always park at the

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Taylor's Steakhouse 3361 W 8th StLos Angeles, CA 90005 (213) 382-8449 Google Map 901 Foothill BlvdLa Cañada/Flintridge, CA 91011 (818) 790-7668 Google Map I think the best food to be had anywhere in the world right now is in our very own Koreatown. But not everyone can eat kimchee, tofu, pork belly and the like. Check

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Cassell's Hamburgers(or, if you read the small sign in the window, "Hambugers")3266 W 6th StLos Angeles, CA(213) 480-8668Google Maps, Reviews, InfoIn case you haven't been paying attention, Cassell's Burgers has consistently rated among the best burger joints in Los Angeles for many, many years; right up there with Apple Pan, Tommy's, the recently departed Mo' Bettah Meaty Meat Burger, and

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Did you hear the earth-shattering news? A bowl of 4000-year old noodles was recently unearthed in China, solidifying the Chinese claim to their invention. Read the LA Times article here. All foodies bow down and thank the Ancient Chinese and their noodle-y secrets.In a bizarre synchronicity, at the same time this discovery was being announced I happened to be eating noodles. I was in San

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Village Pizzeria131 N Larchmont BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90004(323) 465-5566Google Maps, Reviews, InfoTomato Pie7751 1/2 Melrose AveLos Angeles, CA 90046(323) 653-9993Google Maps, Reviews, InfoLittle Toni's4745 Lankershim BlvdNorth Hollywood, CA 91602(818) 763-0131Google Maps, Reviews, InfoAs I expected, my last post about New York style pizza in Los Angeles generated a mini-firestorm. Not so many

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Henry's Tacos11401 Moorpark St.North Hollywood, CA 91602(818) 769-0343CASH ONLYGoogle Local InfoIt's been so long since I've posted! Been hunkered down, finishing the first draft of my novel. It's done, it's not perfect yet, but the word so far is good. Thanks for asking!Despite my absence here, I have not stopped eating, nor embarrassing my wife by snapping pictures of food in restaurants

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PIZZA BELLA1900 N. Highland Ave.(inside Whitley Heights Liquor Market)Hollywood CA 90028(323) 876-4712Open 7 days, 11am - 11pmM, V, AMEXFree DeliveryYou know the strip mall on the northeast corner of Franklin & Highland? It's always been a kind of forlorn place. There's a Starbucks, a Subway, a Japanese restaurant, the requisite cleaners and florists... and what's now called Whitley Heights

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At the end of my recent post on L.A. chili dogs, I asked you, my readers, if I'd left any of your faves off the list. Thanks to responses on Facebook and Chowhound (no one comments on actual blog posts anymore!), I was forced out of journalistic duty, to try all of your recommendations. Here's the roundup of other places I visited, and my final rankings. Will Carney's reign supreme?Original

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Beverly Soon Tofu2717 W Olympic Blvd # 108, Los Angeles, CA 90006Phone: (213) 380-1113Open 7 days 9:30 am - 10:30 pm.MC Visa, no Amex.Beer, sake, and soju.Click here for Google Map.Welcome to my first blog entry about killer eats in L.A.The honor of first review goes to... Beverly Soon Tofu in Koreatown. Why? Because it's currently my favorite place to eat on the planet. Where else does your

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Lamonica's1066 Gayley Ave.Los Angeles, CA 90024(310) 208-8671Google Local InfoVito's Pizza846 N La Cienega BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90069Get Directions(310) 652-6859Google Local InfoBefore the NYC pizza smackdown, a plug for my wife Sa. This is the final weekend of EEMED, an Evening of Experimental Middle Eastern Dance. It's some of the Southland's best belly dance troupes in a group show featuring

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UPDATE: Turns out Chik-fil-a is just a dik-fil-a. I'm sorry I ever ate there, and retract everything I said about it except for how disgusting the ingredients are; add to the list "intolerance and oppression." I've taken down my pics of their hate-y food.It turned out I was there on the Hollywood branch's first anniversary, so they gave me a coupon to come back for a free meal. I'm taking

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I'm all a-twitter and a-flutter. I love Little Tokyo, to the point that I actually look forward to jury duty because it means I'll get to eat my fill of ramen at Daikokuya and donburi at T.O.T.  Between rounds of public service, I make pilgrimages downtown, just to get out of the culinary wasteland that is central Hollywood and into some good Japanese food.The options for a quick meal in

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