A lot has changed in LA's downtown since Clifton's opened near the corner of Broadway and 7th St seventy years ago. The same stretch of pre-WWII movie houses are still standing, but in various states of repair. I'm pretty sure the Mexican apothecary shop next door is new to the area, give or take 20 years. What hasn't changed is the chance to get a full meal of so-retro-it's-cool-again classics as mac & cheese (no shaved black truffles here), creamed corn or stuffed peppers. This restaurant is a relic in more ways than one. Once a small chain or restaurants which were each individually and exotically decorated (the last one that...
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I love comfort food. I seek out restaurants that serve good comfort food. So after reading an LA Times article about Clifton's Cafeteria and I wanted to try Clifton's again. A long time ago they used to have a Clifton's in West Covina. But that closed down a long time ago. The LA Times article mentioned the
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My friend Charles is a tastemaker and boulevardier, a dj, food writer and proponent of healthy foods. I met him in a food writing class, where he insisted on disgusting us all by writing about natto. So naturally he had his fabulous birthday celebration at Clifton's Cafeteria, where fortunately, there was no natto in sight. We climbed up past waterfalls, past animated bears, past illuminated scenes of California, to the third floor Colonial room to find Charles' party, complete with a Clifton's chocolate banana cake and Clifton's balloons. Naturally, we considered choosing some rainbow-hued jello salads, but instead I went with a clever...
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Inspired by this recent post we had on L.A.'s dying cafeteria culture, Maria and I decided we should finally hit downtown's Clifton's Cafeteria this weekend.
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