• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Italian Food Made Simple

  • Home
  • About
  • Recipes
  • Resources
    • Conversion Charts
    • Glossary
  • Travel Italia
  • Contact
  • Did You Know

Los Angeles Eats

September 14, 2015 by Barbara 1 Comment

 

When sampling Los Angeles eats, you HAVE to try a Pink's hot dog...and fries.

I recently made two trips to Los Angeles, my old stomping grounds. My daughter had enrolled in USC’s freshman class (Fight on!) and so we went first for orientation and back again for move-in day. Los Angeles has great places to eat. Funky, elegant  and everything in between. We had a few culinary adventures. My teenage daughter insisted we start at world-famous Pink’s.

 

Customers (some spilling out of limos) line up day and night for one of Pink’s famous chili dogs. Six inch, nine inch. Naked or everything on it but the Pink’s kitchen sink. Hot dog establishment to the stars. Been at the corner of La Brea and Melrose Blvd. since 1946. Started as a pushcart business in 1939. If you’re in L.A., try a Pink’s dog and some fries. Worth the wait.

More Los Angeles Eats

Hit the Los Feliz area for an out-of-this-world sweet at Churro Borough.+

Uber over to the Los Feliz neighborhood. Visit Churro Borough and sample a luscious, freshly made churro “sandwich” filled with handmade ice cream. This thing will be gone-baby-gone in less than 5 minutes.

Musso & Frank is an L.A. institution.  Try the fabulous sand dabs.

Save room for dinner at a place that’s about to make history. Musso & Frank on Hollywood Boulevard is nearly 100 years old, the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. Wood paneled. Lots of show folk. Some of the waiters have been there for decades. Today’s menu was mostly created in the 1920’s. Known for its stiff drinks and great food. Fabulous sour dough bread. I love having the sand dabs–a small, flat flounder out of the Pacific coastal waters. Lightly breaded, lightly fried–butter, capers, tartar sauce if you want it. Yum.

The Original Pantry of downtown is one of the original restaurants of Los Angeles Eats.

Start another day with breakfast at The Original Pantry in downtown Los Angeles, on Figueroa just north of the L.A.Live entertainment center.

They serve one of the best breakfasts in town.

The Original Pantry is also an L.A. institution. Around since 1924 and never closes. Ever.  Traditional bacon and eggs or huevos rancheros.  You pick. As busy as they are, they will poach your eggs. And they serve the best bacon west of the Rockies.

A beautiful view south from the Getty Museum, a place not to be missed.

Of course, L.A. isn’t all sun and food and botox. Take a culture break and visit the J. Paul Getty Museum (the Getty Center) on the westside. Here’s a snap of part of the Getty grounds looking south through the haze and smog towards Santa Monica. The Getty is a must-see.

No Los Angeles Eats trip would be complete without a burger from In-N-Out.

If you feel your arteries aren’t clogged enough, come down off the Getty mountain and have yourself the best burger in California: the In-N-Out burger. Have two. And you’ll want fries with that.

To trip to L.A. is complete without a visit to the Universal Studios Tour.

You can’t eat all day so visit a movie studio. Here are my two favorite leading ladies ready for the Universal Studios Tour.

I love the menu cover for Katsuya, a Japanese restaurant at L.A. Live.

Eventually you’ll want some dinner.  Someplace new and modern.  Like Katsuya, a hip Japanese restaurant at the L.A. Live Center.  The menu cover welcomes you with a big fat kiss!  This place is so hip and with-it and fast-paced and noisy.  The wait-staff runs around like they’re on speed-dial.  I felt like I was sitting there encased in aspic.

I had the Wagyu beef at Katsuya.  Dee-lish!

It’s hard to discreetly take food photos in such a dimly lit place. But the food is great, all around. Witness my plate of Wagyu Tobanyaki, beef with wild mushrooms. And not as pricey as you’d think.

Of course we visited many more places like Road to Seoul in Koreatown and Jon & Vinny’s for great pizza made at you watch.  But enough about food.  Let’s see the ocean.

It's a little early for the denizens of Venice Beach.

The Venice beach ocean, that is.  I hadn’t been there in years. Here’s the boardwalk about 11:00 a.m. Just starting to come alive.

A sampling of what you'll see at Venice Beach.

A typical store on the boardwalk. Boy, the Venice Beach never changes. Thank goodness.

At Venice Beach, Zoltar reigns supreme!

Zoltar still rules. And he’s such a card! Sorry about the photo glare. That California sun, you know.

Yes there is a sucker born every minute.

And yes, a sucker is born every minute.  I inserted a dollar to see my fortune. It said a big fat tuition bill was waiting to be paid.  Zoltar is never wrong.

 

Filed Under: Good Eats Anywhere Tagged With: L.A., L.A. eats, Los Angeles, Los Angeles restaurants

Previous Post: « Sun-dried Tomato Pesto
Next Post: Prosecco Lemon Granita »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Sylvie

    February 2, 2016 at 6:45 am

    Aww this is so cute Mom

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar


Hi. I'm Barbara Francis and I hope you like authentic Italian food as much as I do. It's simple, fresh, seasonal. What's not to like? And it's part of my heritage. So join me in the kitchen of Italian Food Made Simple. Just step right over the dog, she won't move even if you ask her.

more about me ยป

Stay Connected

RSS Twitter Facebook

Search

Archives

  • June 2018
  • February 2018
  • May 2017
  • March 2017
  • November 2016
  • September 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014

Copyright © 2023 Italian Food Made Simple on the Foodie Pro Theme