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South American

Brazilian Food Los Angeles

Sabor de Bahia Feijao Tropeiro com Couve

We return to Brazil for this week’s Dose of Vitamin P. More specifically, we traveled to Bahia by way of Melrose, where Sabor de Bahia chefs Reni Flores and Ilma Wright delivered seven different...
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Brazilian Food Los Angeles

Sabor de Bahia: Regional Brazilian Cuisine on Call in L.A.

A saber tooth tiger, fangs bared, greeted us at the entrance to the La Brea Tar Pits, but his menacing grin wasn’t about to deter us from pressing forward to enjoy the culinary treasures...
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Uruguay Café: Traditional Dishes from “the Land of the Tango” in South El Monte [CLOSED]

Just when it seemed like nearly every cuisine on the planet is represented in L.A., up pops a restaurant like Uruguay Café. Montevideo native Javier Rodriguez opened his café five months ago in South...
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Moqueca: Celebrating with Regional Brazilian at Oxnard Marina

For hardcore food fiends, it’s no longer enough to just serve Mexican, Chinese or Japanese food. The meals have to be tied to a particular region or state, with a laser-like focus and indigenous...
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Rio Brazil Café: Bossa Nova and Comfort Food in Palms [CLOSED]

It was Saturday night at a well worn Palms strip mall. Live bossa nova music filled the air, cachaca flowed like water and the tables quickly filled with heaping plates of Brazilian comfort food....
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Peruvian Restaurant Los Angeles

Anticucheria Danessi: Capturing The Hearts (and Livers) of Peru

Geography is a funny thing when it comes to restaurants. More than a few middling restaurants have earned inflated reputations just for being located in the media zone that stretches from downtown to Santa...
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