Los Angeles

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

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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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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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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Single Serving: Yak Chili at Tara’s Himalayan Cuisine in Culver City, Los Angeles

by Zach Mann January 4, 2012

Don’t be so modest, Tara. You can take that question mark off the sign. Yak is the enlightened meat. It’s lean like buffalo but juicy like beef. It’s raised at high elevation in the Himalayas and in Colorado, this mystical creature that exists, in my [...]

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Single Serving: La Salsa Chilena at Select Stores, San Diego and L.A.

by Zach Mann October 3, 2011

Somewhere in the world is a person microwaving Kraft singles on a Mission tortilla and covering it with Pace salsa. There’s nothing wrong with that. I’ve done it. It’s delicious, even if it is a high-density, high-sodium brick of cheese flour covered in a sauce [...]

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Single Serving: Corned Beef Hash at Pepy’s Galley in West L.A.

by Zach Mann September 22, 2011

I love diners with a love that transcends the quality of food, to the point where personality and convenience can be enough to make or break a meal before the food ever hits the table. I’m a big fan of Norm’s in L.A. at two [...]

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Los Trucking Angeles

by Zach Mann June 9, 2011

“Street food” is a misleading term, at least in this country. A hot dog stand in suburban Chicago probably has more square footage and seating than three San Francisco Thai restaurants. Mariscos German and Mariscos El Pescador in San Diego are theoretically taco trucks, but [...]

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Lifestyle of the Super Rica and Famous

by James Boo February 1, 2011

At what point does distance transform from cost to craving? The moment one reaches the counter at La Super-Rica offers an appetizing example. It may be more than an hour’s drive from West L.A., and it may take twenty minutes to get through the line [...]

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