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Restaurant Glendale

Mini Kabob: Small Building, Big Flavor on Glendale Side Street

Even with tiny neighborhood restaurants, there’s such a thing as critical mass. Mini Kabob is a tiny three-table restaurant situated on a Glendale side street that I visited nearly 10 years ago, inspired by...
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Koko’s Bakery: Head to the Hills for Armenian Flatbreads

It was a sweltering day in the San Gabriel foothills, and the mammoth silver oven at the back of Koko’s Bakery was at full blast, but the Armenian baked goods were so good that...
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Sevan Chicken: Finding a Fitting Zankou Substitute

Any conversation about rotisserie chicken in Los Angeles has to begin with Zankou Chicken, the Armenian-American yardbird empire that stretches across the city and dips down into Orange County. Their chicken and garlic sauce...
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Sasoun Bakery: Baking Up Savory Armenian Empire

Glendale is a larger and better-known Armenian hub within Los Angeles, but the city’s top Armenian bakeries reside in the East Hollywood enclave known as Little Armenia. Sasoun Bakery and Arax Bakery share supremacy...
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Garo’s Basturma: Long Live the King of Armenian Sausages

Despite Garo’s passing nine years ago, this 23-year-old Armenian deli in northeast Pasadena is more successful than ever. Garo’s Basturma produces 2000 pounds of cured, dried and spiced beef every week. Two big reasons...
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Maran: Armenian/Russian Oasis in Glendale [CLOSED]

After driving north along an industrial stretch of San Fernando Road that parallels the concrete trash flume called the Los Angeles River, I arrived for lunch at Maran, an Armenian/Russian restaurant with a plain...
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