November 2009
12 posts
Duke's West Hollywood (f/k/a Duke's Coffee Shop)
I don’t even know where to begin.
The year was 2002. My brunch posse and I wandered into this iconic greasy spoon and marveled at the post-hangover satisfaction of their 3-egg scrambles with green chiles and made-to-order breakfast burritos. Duke’s integrated the seediness of the Whisky-A-Go-Go next door with the creature comforts of a short-order grill in a fun way.
However, the...
Happy Thanksgiving
To all fourteen of our readers:
We-Eat-LA wishes you a very happy Thanksgiving holiday. May your family be comprised of competent cooks or live in close proximity to a Vietnamese dungeness crab house.
Note: the photo is of the roasted crab at a wonderful little place in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco: PPQ Dungeness Island, 2332 Clement St., San Francisco, CA 94121, (415)...
Al & Bea's
Al & Bea’s
With all the hype (justified, cause they are delicious) of the food trucks in LA, I think it pertinent that a nod be given to what, in my opinion, is the original brain child of the first taco truck and every derivation of late. The taco stand, more appropriately the burritto stand!
Al & Bea’s is the original article. In East LA past downtown on 1st street, it...