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Cuisines

Supper Club Los Angeles

Hatchet Hall Fuss & Feathers Seafood Trio

Hatchet Hall was already Culver City’s best restaurant, but that apparently wasn’t good enough for chef Brian Dunsmoor and front of house partner Jonathan Strader. The duo debuted a “modern American supper club” called...
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Coffee San Francisco

Hole in the Wall Coffee

I’ve read estimates ranging from 15-20 square feet for Hole in the Wall Coffee, a tiny North Beach window that Zac Green opened in 2014 just uphill from Washington Square Park. Self-described San Francisco...
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Banh Mi San Jose

Banh Mi Oven #1 Cold Cut Combo

San Jose is the city with the most Vietnamese-Americans outside of Vietnam, over 100,000 people according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Given that fact, it figures that their Little Saigon food scene is so...
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Italian Food San Francisco

Che Fico Grilled Chopped Duck Liver

Che Fico was a hit not long after opening. Pretty much from the moment Anderson Cooper Instagrammed his pizza, people were flocking to this Nopa restaurant. After all, the name Che Fico translates from...
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Coffee Santa Barbara

Handlebar Coffee Roasters Gibraltar

Aaron Olson and Kim Anderson expanded Handlebar Coffee Roasters from Downtown to Midtown in September 2017, taking over Santa Barbara’s original Safeway market. The airy brick building debuted in the ’30s and features a...
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Filipino Food Los Angeles

Ma’am Sir Crispy Pork Lechon [CLOSED]

Charles Olalia is a talented chef who traded in his fine-dining credentials to focus on Filipino comfort food with finely honed technique at a tiny DTLA restaurant called Ricebar that features heirloom Filipino rice bowls. This...
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