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Filipino Food Los Angeles

Lala’s Kitchen Pork Belly Adobo [CLOSED]

Good Filipino restaurants are hard to find outside of (and even within) a few prominent pockets: West Covina, Historic Filipinotown, and Eagle Rock. In out-of-the-way Northridge, Lala’s Kitchen is hidden in plain sight by...
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Sausage Orange County

Spicy Lao Sausage (Dose of Vitamin P)

Garden Grove in Orange County contains a nice stretch of Little Saigon and a distinct Korean District and is strong on Vietnamese and Korean cuisines, but the city also boasts other Southeast Asian standouts....
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Asian Food Los Angeles

Cassia Grilled Beef Tripe

As much as I enjoyed The Spice Table, the late great Southeast Asian restaurant from Bryant Ng and Kim Luu-Ng in Little Tokyo, I enjoy the couple’s new Santa Monica restaurant with Josh Loeb...
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Sausage Los Angeles

RiceBar Pork Longganisa Sausage [CLOSED]

RiceBar is a modern Filipino rice bowl concept from Santos Uy (Mignon, Papilles) and longtime fine dining Chef Charles Olalia in downtown Los Angeles. It’s amazing all they’re able to accomplish in a space the...
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Pork Los Angeles

Republique Arroz Caldo

Walter Manzke and wife/chef Margarita Manzke have created a Cali-French culinary wonderland in Los Angeles with Republique, the ambitious brasserie they run with Bill Chait’s Sprout Restaurant Group. Across the Pacific Ocean, they’ve carved...
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Chicken Wings Los Angeles

Komodo Hot Chicken [CLOSED]

I went to college at Vanderbilt, and one of Nashville’s dishes I miss most is definitely hot chicken, an incendiary bird cooked in a cast iron skillet, coated in eye-popping quantities of cayenne, and...
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