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Cheap Fast Eats

We know. While we love living in SoCal, it can take quite a toll out of your pocket book, time and energy. That’s why we created Cheap Fast Eats — to give you a friend-in-the-know shortcut to finding tasty food you can grab quickly for $10-$15.We’ve been scouting out places for a couple of years now, and have gone as far afield as Santa Ana and the Valley, from Culver City to Pico Union. So check out our new fall edition — a curated list of places we think you’ll like for cool temps.

Cheap Fast Eats: 5 new meals to try for around $10 that are worth the trip

A Honduran baleada on a white plate, filled with mashed beans, sprinkled cheese, and topped with bright pickled red onions, all wrapped in a warm flour tortilla.

Cheap Fast Eats heads to North Hollywood for tasty food around $10

A toasted Guatemalan torta sandwich filled with shredded meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and guacamole, served on parchment paper with a side garnish of parsley and tomato. A small toothpick flag with “Muchá! Comida Chapina” is placed beside it.

Inventive, affordable bites in OC: Cheap Fast Eats visits Santa Ana

Smashburger meal served on a tray lined with classic black-and-white checkered paper, paired with a tall serving of golden fries in a playful Chinese takeout-style box

Cheap Fast Eats visits Pico-Union for globetrotting bites around $10

A plate with roasted chicken, potatoes, a salad, pita bread, and three different sauce containers against a pale blue tiled surface.

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Culinary Connections: Join LAist For An Old-School Hamburger Fry

Join Associate Editor of Food and Culture Gab Chabrán and How To LA host Brian De Los Santos to discuss burgers in Los Angeles.
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Does Sriracha Taste Different After The Shortage? We Put It To The Test — And Learned Proper Storage Etiquette In The Process

After people began complaining online that Sriracha they'd bought recently didn't taste like the old stuff, we set out to find the answer. It didn't go well.
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Pasadena Claims To Be The Home Of The Cheeseburger — But There’s Beef

Was the burger with cheese really invented at a Pasadena roadside stand 100 years ago?

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