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The Los Angeles leg of the World Series starts Monday. We have put together this handy food and drink guide for our northern neighbors coming to watch Shohei Ohtani play in front of a hometown crowd.
What you'll find: Your guide to the best tacos, the best Asian food, the best coffee shops and more.
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Welcome to Los Angeles, our brethren from Canada, aka the “51st state.”
Sorrrrrrrrrrry!
Take comfort in knowing that we drink from the same bitter well of pain. If you haven't heard, Congress defunded public media, which for us at LAist means $1.7 million gone, baby!
Still, we soldier on. And we salute you, Blue Jays fans, for making the extra effort required this year to travel across the border to watch Shohei Ohtani play in front of a hometown World Series crowd.
Glad you got your visa, landed safely despite the effects of this year’s government shutdown and made it out of LAX — we loath that place too.
October is a lovely time to be in Los Angeles, with the air still carrying a good dose of summer but without the sun eating away half your face. In all honesty, it really is the best month — not the least because in this town, it’s better known as World Series time.
Just know that for most of us, going to a regular season game has been feeling kind of like a trip to Disneyland. Magical — sure?! — given it costs an arm and a leg for a ticket before parking. And please don’t get me started on the food.
But I digress. Because what's important is L.A. is back at it again, facing a formidable opponent in your Toronto Blue Jays. My friend and colleague Matt Dangelantonio — one of the many, many true baseball-heads at LAist — told me the Dodgers are going to be in trouble if any of our $1 billion worth of arms fail to deliver, especially since the Blue Jays have a thriving young core led by Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
In fact, Matt has his own fair-weather fan guide to this year’s World Series.
And me? I’m here to show you a good time when you’re here for the L.A. leg of the series — because win or lose, your team will be here. So might as well make the best of it.
There isn't an official food of Los Angeles, but the taco should be it. From street level to fusion to high end, the palm-size goodness from our southern neighbor is L.A. life.
L.A. is home to transplants and immigrants who bring their love of food. And they don’t just open restaurants — they start neighborhoods. Thai Town. Cambodia Town. Koreatown. You get the drift.
There's something about sipping a cocktail on an autumn night (yes, 72 degrees is autumn here) — and L.A. is the town made for the experience.
Sometimes it feels like Angelenos survive purely on coffee and matcha — how else to explain the plethora of coffee shops here? If you love your caffeine, here are our recommendations.
Fun fact, Los Angeles is one of 88 cities that make up the greater L.A. County. And plenty of awesomeness can be found all around.
I grew up in L.A. but can’t claim the badge of born-and-bred. That honor belongs to writer Erick Galindo, who shares his favorite L.A. haunts.