Junior DA's and gavel crackers frequent by day. Bohemian lovebirds make it pop with cool after dark.
Family-style Chinese dinners. Just the place to announce that new dragon tat.
Get your French toast in a "point of historical interest."
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Hot crowd descends on this barrio's lost Holiday Inn for food that borrows everyone's best.
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Proof that Downtown is still gentrifying.
Ultra-trendy tapas and by the glass vintages for winos who play as architects by day.
Specialty coffees not your average mud. Weathered brick walls inside feature local artists, outside walls give killer graf.
Mime-free Arcadian glass box below Central Library.
- Casa
- Downtown
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Mexican
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$$$
Quick-service Mexican. But expensive and decidedly not a truck.
Room is casually elegant like the Napa Valley fare. Easy on the eyes grown-up clienetele are here for work, but not working much while still able to afford hits from the wine list.
Yes, this grand Yucatan cuisine is better than Senor Frog's.
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Arroyo + Manzke = heaven in the mouth.
Those tuxedoed old-timers clearly ventured downtown specifically for this meal, not the open-air crack market.
- Ciudad
- Downtown
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Latin American
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$$$
A grab-bag of disparate and perfectly crafted Latin breakdowns, like if Manu Chao was an upscale restaurant.
Come just to see worshipped Frontierland wooden digs, chapel and 20-foot waterfall. Then grab udon elsewhere.
- Cole's
- Downtown
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American, American (New)
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$$
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The 100-year-old buffet-style cafeteria comes back as something new (but the French dip stays).
Creamy Kattori style ramen or regular pork ramen, gyoza dumplings on the side, featuring...you guessed it, more pork!
We push the double-dipped Belgian fries and cool modern diner décor.
Huge new Financial District spot. The food photos look real, real good.
Accommodates nearly 600 diners, employs 12 cooks, 19 dim sum specialists and three BBQ chefs to prepare intricate handmade delicacies (40 to 60 kinds everyday).
Disputed comfort found in cold meatloaf with Russian dressing, but pan-fired chicken and green chile chili get us hootin' and a hollerin' like that guy with the aluminum foil hat outside.
Come for the sports, stay for the per-hour price minimums. Eh?
Local one-off Red Robster claims to be L.A.'s first sushi bar to "do it" on a conveyor belt—which everyone should experience if but once.
Most dishes are milder Cantonese, with plenty of spicier flavors like that minx who played Uncle Jessie's wife.
Not the Ramen that sustained your life in college, though intense feelings of energy, sustenance and high blood pressure will likely still be the end result.
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