An all-day French-inflected cafe and dining room inside Charlie Chaplin's 1929 Mid-Wilshire building — the kind of LA address where the architecture is half the meal. Mornings belong to the pastry bas...
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Destroyer
Californian · Culver City
Jordan Kahn's daytime counterpart to Vespertine strips away the theatrical fine-dining frame and rebuilds it as a Culver City cafe. The plating is meticulous — breakfast and lunch dishes that look lik...
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Gjusta
Bakery/Deli · Venice
The sprawling Venice bakery-deli from the Gjelina team operates like a commissary for people who take bread seriously. House-baked everything, smoked fish, and creative sandwiches. Walk-in only, no re...
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Courage Bagels
Bagels · Virgil Village · LA Times 101 Best Restaurants
Wood-fired bagels at 777 N Virgil Ave, built on a Montreal-meets-New-York technique that has generated genuine cult following on the East Side. The bagels have serious chew with a blistered crust from...
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Randy's Donuts
Donuts / Bakery · Inglewood
Since 1952 — the giant rooftop donut is one of LA's most-photographed landmarks, and the donuts underneath are legitimately excellent. Glazed raised, old fashioneds, apple fritters the size of dinner ...
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Milk Bar
Bakery / Desserts · Hollywood · James Beard Award (Christina Tosi)
Christina Tosi's Melrose flagship — the place where Momofuku alums turned cereal milk into an entire dessert language. The Compost Cookie is a Trojan horse of pretzels, chocolate chips, and butterscot...
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Petit Grain Boulangerie
Bakery / French · Santa Monica
The Wilshire laminated-pastry destination Santa Monica regulars queue for. Croissants pulled off the bench with the crack-layer texture that defines a proper French bakery, kouign-amanns done honestly...
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Maury's Bagels
Bakery / Bagels · Silver Lake
The Bellevue Avenue bagel argument the east side can't stop having. Dense chew, correct boil, the BEC and the lox sandwich both photographed more than they're eaten. Vegan cashew spread is better than...
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Milo & Olive
Italian / Bakery · Santa Monica
Rustic Canyon Family's neighborhood Italian bakery-plus-trattoria — morning pastries, weekend brunch, evening wood-fired pizza program. Communal marble-bar seating, rotating seasonal menu, and a dinin...
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Mashti Malone's Ice Cream
Persian Ice Cream / Dessert · Hollywood
Since 1980 on La Brea Ave — an Iranian-born ice-cream shop that has introduced three generations of Angelenos to rosewater, saffron, and pistachio ice cream the way Persian tradition intended. Faloode...