Los Angeles — Places to eat
Palm-lined freeways, ending at a taco truck
- In-N-Out Burger (LAX, Sepulveda Blvd) — Burgers with jets landing right overhead
- Philippe The Original — French dip, bread dunked in meat juices, since 1908
- Leo's Tacos Truck (La Brea) — Al pastor off a spinning spit, about $2 a taco
- Grand Central Market (Eggslut) — The original Eggslut counter in a 1917 market hall
- Baekjeong KBBQ (Koreatown) — Koreatown's go-to grill-at-your-table BBQ
- Howlin' Ray's (Chinatown) — Nashville hot chicken by heat level; a queue before opening
- Bestia (Arts District) — Roasted marrow bone and fresh pasta in a converted warehouse
- Gjelina (Venice) — Wood-fired pizza and vegetable plates on Abbot Kinney
- Langer's Delicatessen — The No. 19 pastrami some rate above New York's
- Cassell's Hamburgers (Koreatown) — Burgers from beef ground daily, to a 1948 recipe
- Pink's Hot Dogs — Hollywood chili dogs since a 1939 cart
- Verve Coffee Roasters (Arts District) — A big warehouse café with its own roastery
- Porto's Bakery & Cafe (Glendale) — Cuban pastries for $1-3, LA's favourite bakery
- Salt & Straw (Abbot Kinney) — Ice cream to sample first, pear & blue cheese and all
- Sidecar Doughnuts (Santa Monica) — Huckleberry doughnuts fried fresh every hour
- Sonoratown — Charcoal beef in fresh flour tortillas
- Guelaguetza — Oaxacan moles and tlayudas
- Mariscos Jalisco — The truck famous for fried shrimp tacos
- Daikokuya Little Tokyo — Pork-bone ramen worth the line
- BCD Tofu House — Bubbling soondubu, open late
- The Apple Pan — Counter burgers and pie since 1947
- Pizzeria Mozza — Nancy Silverton blistered pizzas
- Jitlada — Southern Thai heat in a strip mall
- Providence — Three-star seafood tasting menu
- République — French bakery-bistro in a Chaplin-era building
- Intelligentsia Coffee Silver Lake — Sunny Sunset Blvd corner coffee bar
- Alfred Coffee (Melrose Place) — The "But First, Coffee" photo stop
- Bottega Louie — Marble hall with a wall of macarons
- Urth Caffé (Melrose) — Brunch and organic coffee on the Melrose patio
- The Edison — Steampunk cocktails in a 1910 power plant