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eggslut in downtown

>>6738338
I'm afraid to Google this.

>>6738338
>Specialty Egg Restaurant
>No Eggs Benedict
I'm sorry, try again.

>>6738308
Tommy Burger- get a chili burger
Philippe Sandwiches- get whatever sandwich you like. Ask for it to be double dipped and tip the unattractive lady at the counter. Get a slice of cheesecake as well.
Find a food truck. I like Danny's tacos, they cruise around LA Live most nights but if you google them you should get a map

>>6738360

It's just a hipster "we're ironically calling it slut and we're women but we're not really sluts even though being a slut is totally, like, cool, we're participated in slutwalks you know?" place that serves eggs.

>>6738415
Tommy Burger is the shit. Had it last time I was here.
>Philippe Sandwiches
>"Double Dipped"
Explain.
Last time, there was this nameless taco truck right outside my hotel. They served tacos de lengua and they were heavenly.

Costco

>>6738463
Phillippe's does a french dip sandwich. If you don't double dip they barely dunk it and it's not as good.
As for food tucks they're hit and miss so don't be afraid to eat at the same one twice instead of trying a new truck

>>6738463
also if you do go to Philippe's I like lamb and blue cheese or just straight roast beef but pick your favorite meat and cheeses

>>6738497
>>6738506
You had me at "lamb."
Thanks for being a bro, Anon!

>>6738518
I just like shilling for one of my favorite restaurants. Get two sandwiches because they're smallish. Get cheesecake as a desert for the complete meal

>>6738308
Grub
Animal
Son of a Gun
Red Medicine
Ink
Alma
Daikokuya
Blue Jam Cafe
Providence
Salt's Cure
Canter's Deli

>>6738415
Tommy's is shit.

Just eat from food trucks.

>>6738308
Best Fish Taco on Hillhurst. (It's not best anything, but it's cheap and good).
Zankou chicken.
Great Greek in the Valley.
Kogi truck.
Maybe noodles at Sanamlaung.

Don't do fine dining, Italian or Mexican there.

>>6738699
>Don't do fine dining
Why not?

Each and every single restaurant in grand central market

source: i live here and eat there everyday on my lunch break from work. great grocers and produce (especially spices and types of peppers)

>>6738692
fight me faggot

>>6738701
Because LA's concept of fine dining is see and be seen, not eating well. Blame Puck. He taught them it was cool to go out again, but he never educated them just what they should be going out for. He was too busy cashing in on CPK and its line of frozen entrees.

My experience is that LA is like a third world country trying to show off at the high end: you're left with very expensive restaurants with deferential service presenting food that no one in the kitchen or the dining room can tell is actually good unless celebrities choose to eat there.

Don't waste your money on scenester shit when it's trash food paradise.

>>6738767
have you tried the Pacific Dinning Car? As far as expensive steakhouses go I think their worth the high price

>>6738308
Plan Check
Tiki-Ti
TLT
Beer Belly
Dominick's
Harlowe
Hatfield's

>>6738308
Portos in burbank or glendale try the cuban sandwich ( my fav) with a slice of cheesecake and a fruit smoothie, sandwich comes with plantain chips.

>>6738360
It's a stupid fucking name to draw attention. It's burgers with an egg-over-medium in it. It's pretty decent. It's in Grand Central Market which one of the places to visit in downtown LA.

Oh, and any hole-in-the-wall Mexican place in east LA.

>>6738825
Had Porto's for breakfast this morning. Had the ham & cheese omelet croissant. Fantastic. The coffee was pretty great, too.

>>6738825
>>6739734
But that line, tho. I almost walked out, but I stuck with my decision. The food was good, but it took me 25 mintues to get it.

Had a sandwich today from The Hat in Pasadena. The pastrami was bomb and the onion rings were damn near perfect. Fat and happy right now.

Dino's chicken and burgers on pico- pollo maniaco
Half of a Greek grilled marinade chicken .spicy and tangy as fuck. Enormous side of fresh fries with the Greek sauce, tortillas and tiny portion of coleslaw. Entirely satisfying and cheap

Twin dragon on Santa Monica- Chinese takeout done right can get more $$$ though

House of pies in Los Feliz: Every pie is amazing

Go to any dinner open after midnight with friends

Go to a koreatown bakery and eat the most delicious cake you have ever eaten for like $30

For Mexican food: el gran burrito order large steak burrito or tacos. No chipotle Americanized bullshit.

Alternative to McDonald's: yoshinoya

These are all the foods of my childhood.

>>6738308
What part of LA?

>>6738308
Phillipe Sandwiches, double dipped
Eggslut
Yang Chow
Nick's Cafe
Okatmoto kitchen is a good ass food truck

>>6738308
Why not roscoes? They're fucking great. Anyway why are you going to that shithole?

>>6738699
I know a few decent mexican places, anon
why shouldn't he go to those?

>>6738767
THIS
it's mostly flashiness and style over actual food-ness

>>6740908
Because 1) I've been there before and 2)Everyone always reccomends them in L.A. threads.

>>6740931
I lived down the street from roscoes entire life. Have never been to roscoes it's purely hype line is always too long so I avoid

Pinks is good get any hot dog from there.

Milk - dessert heaven

Check out the taco truck on La Brea and Olympic. I think it's there most nights. I don't even know the name, but there's always a big line.

Across the street from it is a frozen yogurt place with the freshest fruit I've ever seen. They're open until midnight too.

Tree House Thai is a personal favorite with a bunch of vegan stuff, if you're into that.

>>6740780
>going to The Hat
>not getting chili cheese fries
You can add pastrami to chili cheese fries, but it's fucking expensive to do so. $6 for chili cheese fries (last time I ate there, which was around two years ago when I lived in Alhambra), or almost $12 for pastrami chili cheese fries.

These are the places I would eat at when I lived in the LA area:
1. Banh Mi My Tho - Alhambra
2. Zankou Chicken - Glendale
3. Porto's Bakery - Glendale
4. Taco Zone - Echo Park (not really worth going out of your way for, you can get tacos anywhere)
5. Sam Woo BBQ - Alhambra
6. Philippe's - Chinatown
7. Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles* - Hollywood (although the location in South Pasadena is always less busy)
8. In-n-Out*
9. Tommy Burger - Hollywood (there's a few locations, but that one was on my way home from work)
10. Bollini's Pizza - Montebello/Monterey Park
11. Noodle World - Alhambra

Zankou Chicken is fantastic, but if you go there I would avoid the one on Sunset/Normandie. That place is a shithole, and they always try to nickel-and-dime you when trying to get extra garlic sauce (which you're definitely going to want) or naan. The location in Glendale, the staff was always very friendly, and if you asked for extra garlic sauce, they would just say "Sure, how many?"

*I know you said not those

>>6741244
OH SHIT, HOW COULD I FORGET?!

12. Langer's Deli - MacArthur Park
Voted best pastrami sandwich in the country by some prominent food writer for the New York Times, which got him a lot of shit from his fellow New Yorkers. Just the #19. You may be tempted to order something else, because they have the number 19 plastered everywhere from their T-Shirts to the little card stands on every table, but trust me on this: get the #19. They apparently make their own cream soda in-house, too. It's good.

>>6738308
Spago

>>6741244
Alhambra's kinda out of the way. I was only in Pasadena today because Dad texted me and wanted a pic of the Rose Bowl. *shrug*

>Philippe's
L.A. bros showing a lot of love for this place. I think I'll have lunch there tomorrow.

>>6741255
You know...money's not an issue this trip. Dare I?

>>6741271
You're in LA. EVERYTHING is out of the way. I used to live in Glendale and work in Hollywood. I think officially it's a five-mile drive. When I left for work in the morning, around 5am, it was a ten-minute drive. When I returned home around 3pm, it was an hour and a half drive.

That's the primary reason I don't live in Southern California anymore.

Wurstkuche, gourmet exotic hot dogs
Umami Burger, although they've expanded but at least started in Hollywood

http://www.pantrycafe.com/

The Pantry Cafe. 9th and Figueroa. Opened in 1924. It's never closed.

>>6738665
WeHo bro eh??

Salt's cure is overpriced and Canter's is a shell of what it used to be. Son of a Gun and
Animal are great though

Father's Office is a pretty good burger and Leo's for dirt cheap pastor tacos. Breakfast in that area, Griddle is jam packed with instagram yuppies but good pancakes

>>6740978
>Tree House Thai
You are sincerely my nigger.

I wouldn't recommend it to someone visiting L.A. since there's so much more to eat, but they deliver and it's delicious.

>those fried wantons

>all these plebs thinking they know LA ITT

Los angeles has the best tacos in the us, and no one has mentioned one decent taqueria. A taco crawl is a must in LA

http://firstwefeast.com/eat/best-tacos-los-angeles-los-angeles-mag-bill-esparza/

You're welcome

Portos. Cuban food. There's like 5 locations. I go to the one in Downey. Everything is good. Everything.

Go to Bay Cities deli in Santa Monica and get a large Godmother with everything

you won't regret it

>>6741684
So fucking overrated and hyped. I honestly rather go to Jersey Mike's. I got the godmother with everything. Painfully average , I didn't like the hard crisp bread

>>6741686
i'm sorry to hear it. while i never went to jersey mike's, i worked on a project where it was catered a couple times a week and while it was good, it didn't compare to Bay Cities for me

different strokes i guess

>>6741692
I was just so excited since I read rave reviews for it. Next sandwich stop is Ike's Place by ucla.
Jersey Mikes is great tier for fast food, but it's best fresh.

>>6738825
Fucking love Portos. Their savory pastries are the best.

>>6738308
What do you like? You should come visit Night Market if you're going to be close to West Hollywood. It's my favorite Thai place that isn't super pricey, but it's great food and a good experience.

>>6741836
Apparently there's another NIght + Market location in LA Proper if you don't want to go all the way out to WeHo, although I've never been to that one. Give it a look though, I highly recommend it.

Are you planning on just eating to sustain yourself or do you actually want a nice night at a restaurant? Because if so, you really need to check out a place called Rustic Canyon. It's my favorite restaurant, and I make the 2 hour round trip out to LA just to eat there.

>>6739734
You didn't get any potato balls?!

>>6738308
You better not miss out on Wurstkuche

>>6742011
i was just replying to the thread to put this in, and there it is.
>rattlesnake sausage

>>6741934
Well, it's right down the street. Guess I could try it again. Dunno if I want to wait in line again, though...

>>6738308
Pinks hotdogs nigga

>>6738308
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2LYx2GubsU

>>6738665
Park La Brea resident pls go

>>6741874
This. And also Tacos Por Favor in Santa Monica for great, inexpensive mexican food and Gjelina in Venice for hot chicks

>>6744460
Pinks is trash. There's no such thing as a good hotdog. If you do anything to elevate a hot dog out of its plebiscite status it stops being a hot dog and becomes another, better sausage.

>>6738665
My nigga. Animal is the shit, so is Daikokuya. This anon knows what the fuck's up.

>>6738308
church and state
bestia
or tommys chilli burgers they all rule.

>>6741244
>Sam Woo
>Noodle World
Biggest Asian population in the US and you recommend the East Asian equivalents of Dennies and Ihop?

Anyway, if you don't mind heading down the I-10 for around 20 minutes from Downtown, you'll find some of the best Asian food in the nation.

I'm currently obsessed with hot pot and my goto places are Boiling Point, Little Fat Sheep, and Mokkoji. Dumplings from Din Tai Fung and Mama Lu's are to die for. Sinbala has a great beef noodle soup and Taiwanese sausage. Golden Delhi for pho. Milk tea places on just about every corner.

>>6745375
>hot pot
You should visit Lancashire some time anon, best hotpot you'll ever find.

The Apple Pan? No one?

You have to go. It's been around since 1947. Order a hickory burger and for dessert banana cream pie.

http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/food-paradise/video/the-apple-pan

>>6738692
Pretty much seconded .I want to like Tommy's, but it's just hard to when you're actually eating it.

Kinda of expensive for what it is, but Skooby's hotdogs on Hollywood blvd has some amazing french fries and a pretty nice aioli with them.

Is there anything worthwhile to eat in Silicon Valley? I swear, there's nothing but fucking Indian diarrhea plates and chink rice in this area.

>>6746128
Where the fuck are you? San Jose, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Cupertino, Atherton? There's good food everywhere.

>>6746158

Sunnyvale Santa Clara area. It's nothing but an endless see of curry, Ramen, and fast food places everywhere I look. Also Philly cheesesteak seems to be popular too for some reason.

Some decent tacos would be a good start.

>>6741670
FUCKING THIS
Based anon, have you tried the guava and cheese pastry?

>>6748119
Another anon here, I prefer the cheese puffs myself, I can eat a dozen of the fuckers in one sitting. Been thinking about trying the cuban sandwich, do you know if it's any good?

>>6738338
Saw that on "Munchies" looks p good

>>6738308
SIGGRAPH?

go find that korean taco truck. I've heard good things.

>>6746186
Go to the tacomania taco truck its pretty decent
also La Vics in Almaden if you need to get Mexican at 2 in the morning

>>6745313
Bestia is some serious shit, you really should listen to this anon.

>>6748155
They're actually quite alright
You should try the Cubano sandwich