LA
eating covers
every extreme: whatever
you want to eat and
however much you want to
spend, you're spoiled for
choice. Try to take at
least a few meals in the
more acclaimed
restaurants, if only to
watch the city's many
self-appointed food snobs
going through their paces.
If you simply want to fill
up quickly and
inexpensively, the options
are almost endless, and
include terrific burger
stands where you can scarf
down mountains of fried
favorites, and the many
restaurant and bar happy
hours where you can get a
range of good, free food
available for the price of
a drink. LA is also
littered with
celebrity-owned
outfits - like Steven
Spielberg's
submarine-shaped sandwich
store
Dive ! and
Planet
Hollywood (where
displays include Forrest
Gump's box of chocolates)
in Beverly Hills - but the
food is usually
unremarkable, as many
visitors soon discover.
Downtown
Buffet Palace 3014 Olympic
Blvd tel 213/480-8949.
Authentic Korean
restaurant in the heart of
Koreatown, good for spicy
barbecued beef. Clifton's
Caféteria 648 S Broadway
tel 213/627-1673. A
cafeteria complete with
redwood trees,...
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Hollywood
Casa Carnitas 4067 Beverly
Blvd tel 323/667-9953.
Tasty, cheap Mexican food
from the Yucatan, with
dishes inspired by Cuban
and Caribbean cooking;
lots of seafood, too.
Citrus 6703 Melrose Ave
tel 323/857-0034. Trendy,
upmarket...
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West LA
Apple Pan 10801 W Pico
Blvd tel 310/475-3585.
Grab a spot at the counter
and enjoy great pies and
fresh, juicy hamburgers. A
much better choice than
the adjacent Westside
Pavilion mall's food
court. Campanile 624 S La
Brea Ave tel...
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Santa Monica, Venice
and Malibu
Café 50s 838 Lincoln
Blvd, Venice tel
310/399-1955. No doubts
about this place: Ritchie
Valens on the jukebox and
hot 'n' juicy burgers on
the tables. Café Montana
1534 Montana Ave, Santa
Monica tel 310/829-3990.
Good breakfasts,...
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Disneyland and around
Angelo's 511 S State
College Blvd, Anaheim tel
714/533-1401. Straight out
of Happy Days , a drive-in
complete with
roller-skating car-hops
and good burgers. Open
until 2am at weekends.
Belisle's 12001 Harbor
Blvd,...
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San Gabriel and San
Fernando valleys
Dr Hogly-Wogly's Tyler
Texas Bar-B-Q 8136
Sepulveda Blvd, Van Nuys
tel 818/780-6701. Queue up
for the chicken, sausages,
ribs and beans - some of
the best in LA. Fair Oaks
Pharmacy and Soda Fountain
1526 Mission St, South
Pasadena...
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