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Drink of the Week

Sugar Cane Juice Orange County

Nuoc Mia Vien Tay Kumquat Sugar Cane Juice

Nuoc Mia Vien Tay is a rebranded Little Saigon sugar cane juice bar that dates to 1996, when Chuyen Nguyen and wife Thuy opened in a Westminster strip mall. I first wrote about Nuoc...
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Coffee Mexico City

Cafe Avellaneda Juanito

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera’s famed Blue House was teeming with tourists on a Sunday afternoon. Coyoacán is a historic neighborhood in southern Mexico City that may best best known for Museo Frida Kahlo....
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Israeli Drink Los Angeles

Cafe Florentine Sahlab [CLOSED]

A one-mile stretch along Burbank Boulevard near Los Angeles Valley College has welcomed a bevy of Middle Eastern restaurants and bakeries in the past two years. Just some of the notable additions include Pacific...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Intelligentsia Coffee Limelight

“Living in the limelight, the universal dream.” Those lyrics from Rush lead singer Geddy Lee swirled in my head. So did memories of the Limelight, a New York City nightclub that I may or...
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Coffee Los Angeles

Ambrose Cafe Ambrosia

In Greek mythology, Ambrosia is the nectar of the gods. Doves would deliver this magical elixir to Mount Olympus for Zeus and his siblings to enjoy. Somehow, Midcentury Americans reinterpreted this concept as a...
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Coffee Los Angeles

310 Coffee Cappuccino

It would have been hard to imagine even 5 years ago, but many Los Angeles neighborhoods now engage in caffeine wars. Not that it’s contentious in most cases, but multiple specialty coffeehouses vie for...
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