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Comme Ca
8479 Melrose Ave.
at La Cienega Blvd.
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Why do restaurants have such fattening food and such thin customers? .. >
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Luna Park
672 S La Brea Ave.
at Carling Way
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Last night after watching Sweeney Todd at the Arclight and consequently swearing off meat for at least a month, Shelley and I decided to finally check out Luna Park’s Mini Bar cock.. >
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Le Petit Beaujolais
1661 Colorado Blvd.
b/w Mt Royal Dr. & Vincent Ave.
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We've dined at Cafe Beaujolais (1, 2, 3) plenty of times but this is the first time I try their lunch "counterpart" Le Petit Beaujolais, which is few blocks away across the street... >
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Lucques
8474 Melrose Ave.
b/w N La Cienega Blvd. & N Croft Ave.
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You really want to eat everything they serve at this L.A. eatery, but you can't, can you?.. >
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The Standard Downtown Restaurant & Lounge
550 S Flower St.
b/w W 6th St. & W 5th St.
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I just passed 100 posts which to me is the one of the greatest things I've ever accomplished. You would think performing in front of 40,000 people was but this was much harder. Wi.. >
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Cafe Midi
148 S La Brea Ave.
b/w W 1st st & W 2nd St.
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Went to lunch here with co-workers last week. It was very hot that day but inside were full so we had to sit at the ouside table. Their brown bread is very addictive. Not sure what.. >
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Chameau
339 N Fairfax Ave.
b/w Beverly Blvd. & Oakwood Ave.
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French Moroccan restaurant Chameau has been on top of my 'always wanted to try but never made it' list... >
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Monsieur Marcel
6333 W 3rd St.
at Fairfax
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One of my favorite beautiful friends just came back from a two month trip in Mexico. We decided to hangout and grab some grub at LA's farmer's market. I wanted to try something els.. >
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Bistro du Soleil
6805 Vista Del Mar
at Culver Blvd.
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Deadline's finally here~ Busy times made me appreciate the French bistro next door more. This is today's special: Salmon Cakes $10 Surprisingly good! The salmon are very moist and .. >
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Le Marmiton
1327 Montana Ave.
b/w Euclid St. & 14th St.
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The owner of the charming neighborhood French bistro Le Marmiton (see old entries) opened a sister restaurant in the slick renew mall of Marina del Rey. Even though they share the .. >
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Solar de Cahuenga
1847 N Cahuenga Blvd.
b/w Franklin Ave. & Yucca St.
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Just about every time I'm winding my way over the hill into Hollywood I pass by Solar de Cahuenga at the corner of Franklin and Cahuenga and think, "Man, I need to check this place.. >
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Taix
1911 W Sunset Blvd.
at Reservoir St.
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It must have been really cool when L.A. had a French quarter...probably not quite New Orleans, but still. I thought the French quarter was near new Chinatown, since the French hosp.. >
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French Market Cafe
2321 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
at Marr St.
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Okay, so what if the French don't eat this kinda stuff for breakfast? At the French Market Cafe you get the best of both worlds. That is, French flavor with big American portions. .. >
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Lilly's French Cafe & Bar
1031 Abbot Kinney Blvd.
b/w Broadway Ct & Westminster Ave.
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Even though it's right next to one of my favorite restaurants Joe's on Abbot Kinney, I've never been to this French restaurant. It also has business lunch course, for only $10. The.. >
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Sona
401 N La Cienega Blvd.
at Westmount Dr.
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Nancy of Living LArge and I had a plan of attack. We’d meet up at Boule Atelier at 6:30 before they closed at 7, get some treats, then head over to Sona for cocktails and then to C.. >
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Bistro K
1000 Fremont Ave
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For the report of my Valentine's dinner, I've got guest writer aka my beau Jon who is a much much better writer than I am to blog about our experience. My previous entry on Bistro .. >
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Canele
3219 Glendale Blvd
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I know I'm a day late with the Zagat news, I was off on a citywide eating tour yesterday -- it's a hard job, but someone's got to do it. Here's a few interesting tidbits from the n.. >
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La Creperie Cafe
5110 E 2nd St
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A great place to dine at on a sunny afternoon is La Creperie Café in Belmont Shore. It's a French café that serves up a variety of delectable savory and sweet crêpes, as well as pa.. >
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Maison Akira
713 E Green St
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Due to a Feng Shui supersititious, RP treated us to dinner at Maison Akira to celebrate her birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY woman~! ^o^/ (we're going to treat you even better next time ^_.. >
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Bastide
8475 Melrose Pl,
b/w N La Cienega Blvd. & N Alfred St.
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Bastide, post-Chairgate. First up! Irene Virbilia reviews Bastide. And it's a flat-out, full-throttle rave. It's Bastide, unbuttoned. ...Service is as good as it gets in Los Angele.. >
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Bistro de L'Hermitage
9727 Culver Blvd.
at Duquesne Ave.
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I found that Bistro L'Hermitage is quite near where I work so I drove out there for lunch. MY GOD that little place is fullhouse (mostly from Sony?) and still only ONE waiter worki.. >
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Brasserie Vert
6801 Hollywood Blvd.
at Highland Ave.
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In Hollywood, lunch is not a meal; it's a problem. People have them every day, yet they're often taken aback when assistants ask, "What's good for you?" That's because it's often a.. >
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Cafe Tartine
7385 Beverly Blvd.
b/w N Martel Ave. & N Fuller Ave.
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Context & Setting: The accelerated transition of the formerly sleepy, heavily Orthodox Beverly Boulevard into a stylish strip of furniture showrooms, clothing ateliers, fancy optic.. >
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Champagne French Bakery Cafe
11705 National Blvd.
at S Barrington Ave.
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This article is dedicated to the brave firefighters from around the country who helped combat the wildfires that swept California last month. Thank you for protecting .. >
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Creme de la Crepe
424 Pier Ave.
at Loma Dr.
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I just realized, my office isn't that far from Hermosa Beach, plus the weather was so beautiful, it would be a great lunch break drive along the blue coast. So I went back to the F.. >
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French 75 Bistro
3400 W Olive Ave.
at N Lima St.
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After my recent experiences at Chat Noir, I wasn't too horribly excited by the prospect of going to another David Wilhelm's Culinary Adventures establishment - but my dining compan.. >
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La Fondue Bourguignonne
13359 Ventura Blvd
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When we choose a restaurant to have dinner, we are mostly craving some good food, but when this combines with an almost-perfect ambience, you surely have a winner! La Fondue in Sar.. >
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Grill Lyon
424 E 2nd St
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Back to the very good Japanese French restaurant in Little Tokyo within the same top entry page ~ :D.. >
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Cafe Laurent
4243 Overland Ave
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Found a gorgeous lunch spot near the Sony Pictures studio, off from the central downtown... >
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Chat Noir
655 Anton Blvd
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My first foodventure in the O.C. -- and grim foreshadowing: this restaurant is a perfect case study about how poor service can ruin an otherwise fine experience. I also wonder if i.. >
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Aimee's
800 S Pacific Coast Hwy
at Knob Hill Ave.
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My aunt has never eaten at a French restaurant before so I decided to take her to Aimee's Bistro in Redondo. This is one of my favorite places to eat. It is a place that I can alwa.. >
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Angelique Cafe
840 S Spring St.
b/w W 8th & E 9th St.
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The cold weather and tired feet brought us to this cafe for refreshment (= cake + hot drink ^^;;). Both of the Framboise and Black forest mousse cakes taste really good! Not too sw.. >
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Cafe Bizou
14016 Ventura Blvd.
b/w Murietta Ave. & Costello Ave.
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The company actually paid for lunch today. My cheap-ass, non-provider-of-free-coffee-and-water-for-its-employees, cannot-order-you-supplies-because-it's not-in-the-budget-right-now.. >
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Cafe des Artistes
1534 N McCadden Pl,
b/w W Sunset Blvd. & Selma Ave.
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I hope you guys have a happy X'mas. I almost forgot about this entry. For the last two X'mas parties I've gone to they had catering in the office and the food was top notch! May be.. >
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Cafe Marly
9669 Santa Monica Blvd.
b/w N Sycamore Ave. & N Orange Dr.
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Nice patio~ the good thing about this place is the combination dinner (salad/soup + entree). Though the waiter was forgetful, whatever we asked for (wine) he never brought them, we.. >
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Champagne French Bakery Cafe
200 S Beverly Dr.
at Charleville Blvd.
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This is a very small cafe with tiny little intimate tables. The menu boards hang down from the ceiling with braided rope, and there are several white fans additionally. You may als.. >
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Chaya Venice
110 Navy St.
at Neilson Way
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We were supposed to go to a deli but it was closed on Monday, so my boss suggested the nearby "Chaya", at first I didn't registered it is THAT Chaya. O,o It is just as I expected: .. >
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Chez Mimi
246 26th St.
at San Vincente Blvd.
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I suddenly craved French and found one I haven't been to. Posh neighborhood shops around, pretty courtyard with rich old ladies dining in... The menu is predictable & traditional (.. >
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Chinois
2709 Main St.
at Hill St.
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I had a lovely, leisurely lunch today at Wolfgang Puck's Chinois on Main in Santa Monica. This place has been here since 1983, and today was my first visit (a testament to the suc.. >
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Chocolat
8155 Melrose Ave.
at N Kilkea Dr.
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When the Dine Out LA restaurants were listed, MLS and I scoured through the menus to find some good eats. And when we came across the name of the restaurant...Chocolat Restaurant a.. >
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French Quarter Market Place
7985 Santa Monica Blvd.
b/w N Laurel Ave. & N Edinburgh Ave.
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With July being the month for birthdays, packed with nine to celebrate, of friends and family the 4th of July seems to get little more than my divided attention and I don't always .. >
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JiRaffe
502 Santa Monica Blvd.
at 5th St.
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Forgive me, I ate chicken today. Met my friend Christian at JiRaffe, a French-ish restaurant in Santa Monica that boasts, on its menu, that “all poultry products are antibiotic and.. >
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La Belle Epoque
2128 Hillhurst Ave.
b/w Avocado St. & Los Feliz Blvd.
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Drove by this place in Los Feliz, La Belle Epogue, while hungry like a wolf. The brunch menu seems alright, like a generic French cafe with Southern Californian/Mexican flair. Joan.. >
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La Cachette
10506 Santa Monica Blvd.
b/w Fairburn & Thayer Ave.
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Good news: Lunch at La Cachette is a lot like lunch at the Peninsula, only with better service. Bad news: You may give up on finding the place before you can try it... >
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La Dijonaise
8572 National Blvd.
at Hayden Ave.
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Busy days at work right now, time to post almost forgotten old entries. I lunched at La Dijonaise weeks ago at Culver City. It's a nice, cheap casual French bistro. Their sandwiche.. >
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Melisse
1104 Wilshire Blvd.
at 11th St.
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Some meals are just too good to photograph, and this was one of them. When you're eating food that's so good you occasionally start tearing up, you don't want to interrupt the mood.. >
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Michel Richard
310 S Robertson Blvd.
b/w Burton Way & 3rd St.
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There's always a interesting mix of senior citizens and eccentric (in a filthy rich bad taste way) looking Hollywood ma'ams at Michel Richard on Robertson, making it the most un-hi.. >
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Mimosa
8009 Beverly Blvd.
b/w N Edinburgh Ave. & N Laurel Ave.
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A common food lament about L.A. is the lack of neighborhood French restaurants that aren’t overly pedestrian or fussy, and serve solid, down-to-earth staples, like coq au vin, Pota.. >
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Ortolan
8338 W 3rd St.
b/w S Orlando Ave. & S Sweetzer Ave.
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I am a huge fan of Christophe Émé. For the past couple of years, Ortolan has been at the top of the list of restaurants I want to go to. Now that my two-year sabbatical to the fr.. >
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Palomino
10877 Wilshire Blvd.
at Glendon Ave.
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Palomino is a big restaurant. I was raised on big restaurants--Macaroni Grill, Chili's, P.F. Changs, Cheesecake Factory, and the like. Unlike some food snobs (and by the way, "food.. >
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The Downbeat Cafe
1202 N Alvarado St.
at Elsinore St.
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Last night Echo Park's Downbeat Cafe took me two places at once: both back to high school and to college. High school first--last night's jazz combo was a couple of talented high s.. >
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Devon
109 E Lemon Ave
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Devon is located at the preserved historic district of Monrovia with turn-of-the-century buildings. It is a fine French restaurant. The interior if full of huge tall mirror, burgun.. >
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La Parisienne
12642 Ventura Blvd
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More local French restaurant hunting! Found La Parisienne in Monrovia. Worried that it might be pricey, we checked with them on the phone (they said: $16-$27). Turns out it added u.. >
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Picholine
3360 W 1st St
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who would ever expect to find a lovely little french cafe and gourmet chocolatier in the middle of gritty, urban LA? picholine is an unexpected find in the very non-pedestrian-frie.. >
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A Cow Jumped Over the Moon
421 North Rodeo Drive
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A Cow Jumped Over the Moon is an unlikely delight: a completely kosher cheese shop and French cafe hidden in the bowels of a Rodeo Drive shopping complex. It's on the lower level o.. >
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La Poubelle
5907 Franklin Ave
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Though I wrote a couple weeks ago about how nice it is to see people gathering at "The Stretch" on Franklin just south of our house, my instincts have been right all along. Strolli.. >
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Mr. Baguette
8702 Valley Blvd
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I always get take out Vietnamese sandwich at Mr.Baguette (and get buy one get one free fresh baked baguette), this is actually the first time I sit in... >
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Top Baguette
9062 Bolsa Ave
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As a daughter of a Sansei (3rd generation Japanese-American) Hawaiian boy and a crazy Saigon mama I've been raised on a expansive medley of comfort foods. My dad, being from Hawaii.. >
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208 Rodeo
208 Via Rodeo Dr
at Wilshire Blvd.
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A La Tarte
1037 Swarthmore Ave.
b/w Monument St. & W Sunset Blvd.
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Acadie
213 Arizona Ave.
at 2nd St.
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Beau Rivage
26025 Pacific Coast Hwy
at Corral Cayon Rd.
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BlackSteel
6683 Hollywood Blvd.
b/w Las Palmas & Cherokee Ave.
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Cafe Crepe
1460 3rd St.
b/w Santa Monica Blvd. & Broadway
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Cafe Stella
3932 W Sunset Blvd.
b/w Sanborn Ave. & Hyperion Ave.
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Cezanne
1740 Ocean Ave.
b/w Pacific & Seaview Ter
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Chez Nous
10550 Riverside Dr.
at Auckland Ave.
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Cinch
1519 Wilshire Blvd.
b/w 15th St. & 16th St.
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Clafoutis
8630 W Sunset Blvd.
at Sunset Plaza Dr.
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Crustacean
9646 Santa Monica Blvd.
at N Bedford D
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La Boheme
8400 Santa Monica Blvd.
at N Orlando Ave.
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LA Frite
15013 Ventura Blvd.
at Lemona Ave.
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Le Dome
8720 W Sunset Blvd.
at La Cienega Blvd.
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L'Orangerie
903 N La Cienega Blvd.
at Willoughby Ave.
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Maximilians
11330 Weddington St.
b/w Tujunga & Bakman Ave.
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Mirabelle
8768 W Sunset Blvd.
at Horn Ave.
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Mistral
13422 Ventura Blvd.
b/w Greenbush Ave. & Dixie Canyon Ave.
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Pastis
8114 Beverly Blvd.
b/w N Crescent Heights Blvd. & N Kilkea Dr.
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