LA Times food critic selects the 101 best restaurants in LA (Los Angeles: best cities, 2013)

[phoenixmike11]

Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants - Ballots - Data Desk - Los Angeles Times

wow-some good food on this list

[disgruntled la native]

Been to about half of them. He's giving shout outs to his buddies too much (Nancy Silverton, Wolfgang Puck, Suzanne Goin) and doesn't include enough affordable options.

[CapnHawk]

I take it Tommy's, Phillippe's, El Tepeyac and In 'N Out didn't make the list. I need to broaden my horizons.

[nickdahammer]

Pretty good article from a long-time Brooklyn resident. I think his point about the higher rents and density has real merit, and yes, I think good food here is much more affordable.

Joe Satran: Why LA's Restaurants May Be Better Than Those In New York

[nslander]

Originally Posted by nickdahammer

Pretty good article from a long-time Brooklyn resident. I think his point about the higher rents and density has real merit, and yes, I think good food here is much more affordable.

Joe Satran: Why LA's Restaurants May Be Better Than Those In New York

Thanks for that. Pretty much what I've always believed. Lets see what it doe to the "top 5 food cities" thread.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by nickdahammer

Pretty good article from a long-time Brooklyn resident. I think his point about the higher rents and density has real merit, and yes, I think good food here is much more affordable.

Joe Satran: Why LA's Restaurants May Be Better Than Those In New York

Sprawl hurts restaurants - it does not help them. It means they lose business.

Hamburgers are the only type of food L.A. does better than other cities. Everything that NY and the other eastern cities don't do better than us, the Bay Area does just as well or better. The quality of Mexican and Chinese food in L.A. has taken a nosedive.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by phoenixmike11

Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants - Ballots - Data Desk - Los Angeles Times

wow-some good food on this list

Very little in between the 10, 405, 110, and 105, even in the westside portion of that area. (And I wouldn't agree with the inclusion of Mayura as one of the few restaurants he lists south of the 10 and east of the 405 - Mayura's not that good to me)

Also very little in the Valley or South Bay. Everything's either in the Santa Monica to Silver Lake corridor or downtown, with a few Chinese places in the SGV.

[genjy]

That restaurant map is way too Westside-Hollywood-DTLA centric--it tries to cover other areas, but does a really poor job at it.

I am sure there's more than one "best" restaurant in Pasadena. I am hoping, at least.

[RaymondChandlerLives]

Originally Posted by majoun

Sprawl hurts restaurants - it does not help them. It means they lose business.

Hamburgers are the only type of food L.A. does better than other cities. Everything that NY and the other eastern cities don't do better than us, the Bay Area does just as well or better. The quality of Mexican and Chinese food in L.A. has taken a nosedive.

Haven't heard a peep about L.A.'s offerings taking a nosedive. You're pretty much making it up as you go along, eh? San Francisco only thinks it does Asian better than us--ask any chowhound where the best Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Korean, and Vietnamese fare in the U.S. is located. More often than not, Los Angeles will be mentioned. Mexican? Los Angeles is as close to encyclopedic as you're going to get north of the border.

Throw in our food trucks, fusion offerings, and criminally underrated burger scene (L.A. is to the cheeseburger what NY is to the pizza slice) and you have one of the best cities to eat in the U.S.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by majoun

The quality of Mexican... food in L.A. has taken a nosedive.

You forgot to add "since Rick Bayliss opened his restaurant."