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This new series highlights the very best places to eat in each of the four major metropolitan areas we currently cover, from fine-dining establishments to casual, family-friendly restaurants to hip and trendy hotspots. Find information about the city’s well-known chefs, as well as food related attractions. These guides also list some of the city’s best groceries, markets, bakeries, and breweries, making this series not only helpful to visitors but also indispensable to local residents.

Features include:

>Hundreds of restaurants are rated on their culinary excellence, notable value, and overall experience using Mobil Travel Guide’s unique Mobil One- to Five-Star rating system

>Insider tips about each restaurant’s atmosphere, acceptable attire, reservation policy, and accessibility for disabled

>User-friendly lists of restaurants categorized by ambience–romantic, family friendly, hip and trendy, and more

>Portable size, ease of use, expertise, reliability, and comprehensive and diverse listings make Where to Eat the ideal dining guide

From the Back Cover

Are you looking for the perfect restaurant to celebrate a special occasion, share a romantic moment, entertain out-of-town guests, or discuss the newest business plan with your coworkers? The trained experts at Mobil Travel Guide have thoroughly explored the dining scene in Los Angeles and will help you find just the right place. In this handy, easy-to-use book you’ll find:

An objective selection of the very best places to eat in Los Angeles based on Mobil’s stringent inspection process, as well as spotlighted restaurants that stand out for culinary excellence, value, or unique experience

Insight about Los Angeles’ food specialties, well known chefs, and food-related attractions - from food festivals to farmers’ markets

Easy-to-find restaurants listings organized alphabetically by area of the city

Useful lists of restaurants categorized by ambience - romantic, family-friendly, hip and trendy and more

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Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold’s best restaurant discoveries–from inexpensive lunch counters you won’t find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles’ ethnic communities feed their own, including the best of cuisine from: Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Burma, Canton, Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Middle East, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam and more. (set as bulletted list?) Not to mention the perfectly prepared hamburger and Los Angeles’ quintessential hot dog.

Counter Intelligence is the richest and most complete guide to eating in Los Angeles. The listings include where to find it and how much you’ll pay (in many cases, not very much) with appendices that cover food types and feeding by neighborhood.


About the Author
Jonathan Gold, former restaurant critic for Los Angeles magazine, California magazine, and the Los Angeles Times, began writing the Counter Intelligence column for the L.A. Weekly in 1986. He is currently the New York restaurant critic for Gourmet.

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Review

Thirty destinations are presented for each month, with 11 covered in depth. Tuscany, Italy, is recommended for October, when the grape and olive harvests take place, and when porcini mushrooms, prized truffles and other specialties appear on regional menus. The listing includes a six-day itinerary on the “Chianti Trail,” from Florence to Siena. –USAToday.com

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Answering the difficult questions that today’s adventurous travelers ask-where’s the best place for a beach holiday in March? What are my options if June is the only time I can take a holiday? I’m getting married in November, where would be the perfect place for a honeymoon?-this is the perfect book for anyone planning a vacation or a longer adventure. Find out about the best time to go to each destination, the best places to see, and the best things to do. Whatever you want to do, you can-and in any month of the year.
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