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3.0 miles, about 10 minutes from my home in Atwater Village.
A new kind of sausage has arrived to Los Angeles: Berlin-style currywurst. Something new, and oh-so-different to the always evolving culinary scene in Los Angeles. Currywurst is German street food that has been around for at least sixty years. Considered the [...]
Is there an uptick in the number of French restaurants in Los Angeles? I certainly hope so. French food = comfort food. At least in the case of Le Saint Amour in Culver City. I haven’t kept track, and I don’t really know actual figures but it seems to me that there are more and [...]
.8 miles, about 3 minutes (driving), or about 16 minutes (walking), from my home in Atwater Village.
Small, medium or large. Or maybe it’s just medium and large. I can’t remember exactly. The point is they’re not some kind of faux-Italian words made up for coffee sizes. Very old-fashioned but Kaldi Coffee & Tea is a [...]
2.3 miles, about 7 minutes from my home in Atwater Village.
Hungry! Need. Food. Now. There are times when eating becomes the thing I have to do before anything else. Knowing of close-to-home restaurants is of paramount importance to me. Luckily, there’s a plethora of places in my Atwater Village-Silver Lake neighborhood to choose [...]
.2 miles, about 59 seconds by car, or 5 minutes on foot from my home in Atwater Village.
In many places in the world a bakery is often the nexus of a neighborhood. A place where the locals meet to buy baked goods and bread. Bread, the so-called ’staff of life,’ is inexpensive nourishment [...]