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Seafood Restaurant · Mid-City West · 162 tips and reviews
Bon Appetit Magazine: Expect their smoked-mahi fish to be copied by other restaurants around the country. There's no script to follow. It's just two guys with two restaurants cooking food they want to eat.
Travel Channel: Try the Surfin' California Burrito -- a steak, shrimp and french-fry-filled concoction that puts the smackdown on standard taqueria fare. As seen on Man v Food.
579 Grand Ave (at W San Marcos Blvd), San Marcos, CA
BBQ Joint · 100 tips and reviews
Travel Channel: Get the Dinosaur Sized Ribs -- mesquite-grilled to a smoky perfection and slathered in their secret BBQ sauce. -Adam Richman, Man v Food Nation.
SPIN: “After he died, it became an impromptu thing where everyone started writing on the wall,” says the Airborne Toxic Event. “It was one of those defining moments that brought everyone closer together.”
1818 N Vermont Ave (at Franklin Ave), Los Angeles, CA
Bookstore · Los Feliz · 54 tips and reviews
SPIN: Skylight reminds Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett of his old college haunt, City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. “I used to peruse the fiction aisles and dream of being in them one day.”