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Farmers Market Los Angeles

Eagle Rock Farmers Market: Fascinating Foods on Friday Nights [CLOSED]

There’s little doubt that the Wednesday Santa Monica Farmers Market assembles the most impressive produce in the Southland, but there are fringe farmers markets that actually offer more compelling prepared foods. Case in point:...
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Chicken Los Angeles

Chicken House Debuts in Little Armenia [CLOSED]

  • Food
  • September 9, 2008
Nelly Tatulbekyan and her husband opened Chicken House on Friday, September 5, in a former Little Armenia KFC. She wrote a succinct photo menu featuring four varieties of chicken: grilled, fried, rotisserie and hot...
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Restaurant Logo Los Angeles

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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Restaurant Sign Los Angeles

Dino’s Burgers #2: Putting Maniacal Chicken on Chopping Block

I can still remember the day I discovered Dino’s – January 6, 2000. I was working as a Writers’ Assistant on “JAG,” and my key mid-day duty was to find restaurants and retrieve lunch...
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Pho Ho Chi Minh City

Pho 2000: Slurping Soup Like a President in Ho Chi Minh City

Pho 2000, a Ben Tranh adjacent pho shop, is famous for one thing, serving Bill Clinton beef noodle soup on his visit to Ho Chi Minh City in November, 2000. Clinton’s photos were everywhere...
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Goodbye Corona Heights Pork Store [CLOSED], Hello Lemon Ice King of Corona

Per Ed Levine’s New York Times summary of the best hot sandwiches in the Five Boroughs, my friend Ben, his brother Joe and I took the LIE from Manhattan to Queens to visit the...
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