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The Blind Barber is hard to find because from the front it looks like a place to get a haircut. Once you walk in past the barber shop area and pass through what looks like a utility closet, you enter into a hall way that leads to the hidden bar in...

This is the kind of bookstore you'd open yourself if you had the chance. Owner Tony Jacobs' labor of love, Sideshow Rare Books, Art & Curiosities, is a packed and compact used-book store festooned with hefty art books, ringed with underground comi...

Located in a strip-mall storefront in Carson, R&R Soul Food announces its intentions to the world via a light-up sign in the window, which reads "Chitterling." This place is not messing around. Inside, turquoise walls are adorned with framed pictu...

Blue Star Café closes its kitchen after the lunch rush; that's when owner Kash Brouillet hands his diner over to the local punk-rock scene. A hidden gem in a just-beginning-to-be-gentrified part of industrial downtown, the Blue Star is an oasis fo...

Nestled in the San Fernando Valley in Reseda is Fab Hot Dogs, a joint with a menu as big as the U.S. map that hangs in your third-grade classroom. Indeed, you can get your own geography lesson just by scanning Fab's menu: There are the self-explan...

The debate over how to best get to and from LAX often sounds like something out of The Californians, but regardless of how you get there and why, your airport run likely will include a food-related detour. And if fried chicken is what you crave, h...

Of all the things you can put inside a tiny kiosk, macarons have to be among the prettiest, the rows of perfectly formed pastries forming a sudden rainbow behind glass. The Napoléon's Macarons kiosk in the Americana at Brand is a brightly colored ...

Located roughly between the iconic and long-defunct Frank's Highland Park Camera storefront and Fashion 21 (the first Forever 21 retail location, which is still very much in business, with its original moniker intact) is The Outlet. Appropriately ...

We're sure you've seen those colorful macarons popping up all over town. You can learn to make your own — from an authentic French chef, no less — at Santa Monica's Gourmandise School of Sweets and Savories. Co-owned by teachers Clemence Gossett a...

Extra Suicide Wings: Would any spicy food list be complete without a plate of extra-incendiary Buffalo wings? If you really wanted to singe some taste buds on game day, you could pick up a box of wings from Hoagies & Wings in Culver City or Alondr...

J "n" J's has been around long enough to still have that old-L.A. barbecue restaurant (here, more of a shack) game plan: Cater to the smoke-averse with menu additions like burgers and Philly cheesesteaks, and you'll have something for everyone who...

Ah, the first-world conundrum of choosing a nail salon: Go with something high-end sure to have choice colors and expert service? Or double down on a cheaper spot and risk chips, cuts or worse? Leann Nail Salon is the rare inexpensive option that'...