EAT: Los Angeles: The Food Lover’s Guide to Los Angeles (Paperback)
Review
“[W]e’ve been hungering for a new food resource. We found it in ‘EAT: Los Angeles.’” –Los Angeles Magazine, December 2008
Review
“The glossy book is small enough to lug around, printed on sugarcane paper and has nifty chapter tabs…[the editor] wanted to focus on sources as well as restaurants, local businesses instead of corporate chains.”
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2.0 out of 5 stars
What happened to the San Fernando Valley?????
I bought the book because it sounded good from a radio interview. Such an interesting concept for a food/city guide!
Every time I pick up this delightful book I am reminded of why I love living in Los Angeles.
On each page I discover new bakeries, markets or restaurants I am eager to try, including quite a few in my own area in the San Fernando Valley. Naturally, I have to try “the only Bulgarian restaurant in town,” and to visit a seafood market where “The most jaw-dropping array of live seafood swim in spotless tanks” and a produce market described thus: “If every neighborhood had a market like this, life would be perfect.” For places I already like, the descriptions are so enticing that they remind me it’s time for another visit, and soon.
The book’s design with the tabbed chapters for restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and other categories and the division of each category by area of the city makes it very efficient to find what I want, whether it’s a Thai or Middle Eastern restaurant in my area or a terrific fish market in the San Gabriel Valley. But I enjoy the book also as relaxing material to read and plan for more future food fun. I love the special pages of “Good Food Neighborhoods” rich in food destinations. I’m planning to use them to leisurely explore flavors of faraway cultures during my holidays at home.
If only there were an easy way to download the whole book into my G.P.S…
For anyone in the Los Angeles area, this book offers an astonishing number of possible answers to the question “Where shall we go for dinner?” (Or breakfast or lunch, for that matter.) There are thumb tabs for general categories, such as “Restaurants”, “Food That’s Fast”, “Bakeries & Sweets”, etc.
The text is then organized by the geographical regions of L.A.: whether one is looking for a steak house in Burbank or a tea house in Chinatown or a bistro in Venice, it’s easy to track down. Capsule reviews for each of the hundreds of food establishments highlight the specialties of each place,as well as providing info about costs and clientele, and why it’s noteworthy.
Editor Colleen Dunn Bates and the other contributing authors have all written extensively about the Los Angeles food scene for other publications; it’s as if an all-star team was assembled to produce Eat: Los Angeles. They have delivered a winner!