Congress has cut federal funding for public media — a $3.4 million loss for LAist. We count on readers like you to protect our nonprofit newsroom. Become a monthly member and sustain local journalism.
This is an archival story that predates current editorial management.
This archival content was written, edited, and published prior to LAist's acquisition by its current owner, Southern California Public Radio ("SCPR"). Content, such as language choice and subject matter, in archival articles therefore may not align with SCPR's current editorial standards. To learn more about those standards and why we make this distinction, please click here.
L.A. Rife With Restaurant Rows!
For Long Beach, scroll down | View Larger Map
Despite what the rest of the world seems to think about the Los Angeles dining scene, chances are that most of you reading this live pretty close to an awesome stretch of restaurants. Even if you're not in the vicinity of La Cienega's fabled "Restaurant Row," there are still many pockets of that range from the Valley to the South Bay and beyond. This morning's ABC7 broadcast featured some of these other areas where there is a concentration of great restaurants (Citysearch also covered them, but did a crappy job of actually linking to restaurants).
Yes, La Cienega might still hold the title of Best Restaurant Row (you can't really argue with Matsuhisa, Lawry's, or even those inexplicably popular tourist traps The Stinking Rose and Benihana's), but West Hollywood's Melrose Avenue also makes a strong showing, with hip, modern restaurants like Lucques, Ago, and newcomer Comme Ca. But even the outlying counties like Riverside and Orange have their own restaurant meccas, and Long Beach's Pine Avenue also gets a warranted shout-out.
Support for LAist comes from
I'm particularly fond of the Little Tokyo-ish area of Sawtelle in West L.A. (you Westside haters can suck on that), where standbys like Asahi Ramen and Hurry Curry have withstood the influx of hot new izakayas and eclectic galleries, turning this corridor between Santa Monica Blvd. and Pico into one of the best places in the city to spend an afternoon, wandering from ramen house to ramen house. (The market across from Asahi Ramen sells cheap beer if you want to BYOB while you slurp down some noodles.)
Is there a neighborhood near you that they're missing?
As Editor-in-Chief of our newsroom, I’m extremely proud of the work our top-notch journalists are doing here at LAist. We’re doing more hard-hitting watchdog journalism than ever before — powerful reporting on the economy, elections, climate and the homelessness crisis that is making a difference in your lives. At the same time, it’s never been more difficult to maintain a paywall-free, independent news source that informs, inspires, and engages everyone.
Simply put, we cannot do this essential work without your help. Federal funding for public media has been clawed back by Congress and that means LAist has lost $3.4 million in federal funding over the next two years. So we’re asking for your help. LAist has been there for you and we’re asking you to be here for us.
We rely on donations from readers like you to stay independent, which keeps our nonprofit newsroom strong and accountable to you.
No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, press freedom is at the core of keeping our nation free and fair. And as the landscape of free press changes, LAist will remain a voice you know and trust, but the amount of reader support we receive will help determine how strong of a newsroom we are going forward to cover the important news from our community.
Please take action today to support your trusted source for local news with a donation that makes sense for your budget.
Thank you for your generous support and believing in independent news.
Chip in now to fund your local journalism
(
LAist
)
Trending on LAist
-
With less to prove than LA, the city is becoming a center of impressive culinary creativity. -
Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year in L.A. and Ventura counties.
-
Monarch butterflies are on a path to extinction, but there is a way to support them — and maybe see them in your own yard — by planting milkweed.
-
With California voters facing a decision on redistricting this November, Surf City is poised to join the brewing battle over Congressional voting districts.
-
The drug dealer, the last of five defendants to plead guilty to federal charges linked to the 'Friends' actor’s death, will face a maximum sentence of 65 years in prison.
-
The weather’s been a little different lately, with humidity, isolated rain and wind gusts throughout much of Southern California. What’s causing the late-summer bout of gray?
Best of LAist