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Most contributors to The Eaten Path hail from California, so our stories from the Golden State traverse a wide berth of food memories, college town haunts, road trip meals, and tastes of everyday life.

San Diego, the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles and Orange County figure prominently. Tacos, burritos, noodles, at least one poetic breakfast, and the holy In-N-Out burger light the way to our native appetite, where the gut instinct for food writing is less about the exotic than it is about the food that can’t be separated from the lives it sustains.

Single Serving: Tortillas and Salsa at Casablanca in Venice, CA

Single Serving: Tortillas and Salsa at Casablanca in Venice, CA

by Zach Mann April 1, 2013

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Casablanca Restaurant is the most conflicted. The parking spaces are named after Bogey, Bergman and costars. A sign in the lot welcomes all comers to “Casablanca, Venice,” but another by the door [...]

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The Burger Navel of the Universe

The Burger Navel of the Universe

by Zach Mann January 20, 2013

A late drive home in Los Angeles can cause fast food tunnel vision. Every highway exit is known to peckish nocturnals for its proximate combo-meal temptations. Fortunately, for my health, the two most convenient options between the 10 freeway and my place are Jack in [...]

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Mission of Burma San Francisco

Mission of Burma San Francisco

by Zach Mann January 14, 2013

This post is retrospective (not a ranking) on six Burmese restaurants in San Francisco. Since completing the series, Zach has left the Bay Area for the broader pastures of Los Angeles, where he continues to write for The Eaten Path. Some friends and I were [...]

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Eight Meals in the City of Hungry Angels

Eight Meals in the City of Hungry Angels

by James Boo October 9, 2012

Back in June, I spent one very long weekend weaving through the highways of Los Angeles and Orange County – intermittently attending the most absurd and incredible Indian wedding in the universe and getting re-acquainted with the absurd and incredible food landscape that is southern [...]

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The Scent of Chili Oil Rises

The Scent of Chili Oil Rises

by Zach Mann August 1, 2012

Sometimes I glance at a clock and retroactively feel hungry. This happened often when I worked from home in San Francisco, when the sun would fall low enough to stab me in the eyes before I remembered to take my lunch break. Then I’d open [...]

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Burmese Two Ways

Burmese Two Ways

by Zach Mann June 26, 2012

This story is fifth and last in a series on Burmese food in San Francisco. I’ve lived in Santa Monica a week now. Yet the other day, as I sat in a coffee shop, in walked a handsome man in his mid-thirties, designer sunglasses, with [...]

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Once Upon a Time in The Richmond District

Once Upon a Time in The Richmond District

by Zach Mann May 2, 2012

San Francisco’s Richmond district is a long BART and bus ride away from where I once lived in the East Bay, a distant land as far as college me was concerned. But in 2003 I made the trek for a noir film festival and thought, [...]

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Single Serving: Prime Rib at the House of Prime Rib in San Francisco, CA

Single Serving: Prime Rib at the House of Prime Rib in San Francisco, CA

by Zach Mann March 20, 2012

I’ve had the good fortune to dine finely on occasion, to dust off the ol’ wingtips and drop stupid money on one meal: a tasting menu in Vegas or Napa, an omakase marathon into the triple digits, and other edibly metaphorical attempts at winning life. [...]

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Serious Eats: Tales From Chicago and Santa Maria

Serious Eats: Tales From Chicago and Santa Maria

by James Boo February 13, 2012

To recap my recent work for Serious Eats, in case you haven’t kept up with us on Facebook: Serious Barbecue and Birria in Chicago After writing about Uncle John’s and the style of barbecue on Chicago’s South Side, I devoted an entire column to the [...]

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