Los Angeles
10 places to eat.
10 places to drink.
Los Angeles is less a city than a county that agreed to share a name. This is the definitive ten — for a closer definitive list, check out Near you.
Eat
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Photo: RépubliqueModern French cooking in Charlie Chaplin's 1929 studio, under arches that outlived him.
OrderSomething from the pastry counter before you are seated, whatever the queue is doing.
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Photo: mumu666A hot dog stand from 1939 that never stopped having a line down La Brea.
OrderThe chili dog. Join the line; it is part of it.
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Photo: Philippe The OriginalOpen since 1908, sawdust on the floor, and the place that claims the French dip.
OrderThe lamb dip, double-dipped, with the blue cheese.
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Photo: Robert WagnerA Long Beach tavern from 1924 that has refused to become anything else.
OrderA schooner, a pickled egg, and the egg salad sandwich.
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Photo: carlos chavezThe West Hollywood institution, forty years of it, terraces and a dance floor.
OrderA drink on the terrace early, before the wait becomes two hours.
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Photo: Father's OfficeA Santa Monica gastropub with a long taplist and a famously inflexible kitchen: the burger comes as it comes, no substitutions.
OrderThe burger, exactly as written, and whatever is most obscure on tap.
7 of these 10 are hidden
Including number one. Every pick comes with a line on why it is here and what to order. A free account opens all of them, in every city.
Free, and it keeps your saved places across devices. Already have one? .
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