Travels With Susan

(626) 289-2449

My friends and I go here for Sunday lunch after church.  It's that kind of place.  Friendly to groups of six or seven, helpful service and friendly.   They have real corned beef hash that looks like its not from a can. They have a full range of breakfast stuff.  Their deluxe burger is pretty good, nothing to write home about, but very edible and satisfying.  They wil bring you fruit instead of potatoes if you ask and it will be fresh, not canned. The prices are reasonable.  The ambiance is high end coffee shop-- i.e . carpeting and wood tables, nice big paper napkins.  If you just want a comfortable place with comfortable food at a reasonable price, this is a great place to eat.

2906 Santa Monica Blvd
Santa Monica, CA 90404

(310) 829-7871

This is coffee shop food, but it is good coffee shop food.  This is the place to go when you don't want to spend a lot of money, want a place to eat where you can actually talk and hear each other and have a pleasant served dinner.  My daughter and I like it.  The menu offers a little more imagination than most coffe shops-- for example a Thai Chicken salad that was pretty tasty, lettuce wrap appetizers in the Viet Namese style, good zucchini bread with your salad and fish and chips.

And, nice note-- the restrooms are clean and there is ample parking.

If you are looking for Gourmet food and spotless service, spend the money and go down the street to Pacific Dining Car.  If you are looking for a good place to eat, quiet and pleasant with reasonably priced food, easy to get to and comfortable to be at, this is a really good choice in Santa Monica.

In Downtown Los Angeles
1310 West 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90017

 In Santa Monica
2700 Wilshire Boulevard
Santa Monica, CA 90403

If you want to impress your prospective in-laws or an important client or your new boss with your unquestionable class and good taste and your knowledge of great eateries.  This is the place to go.  The downtown location has been there since 1921.  It is not a cheap place to eat, but from the moment the valet parks your car to the time dessert is served, it is all first rate.  The food is wonderful, the menu is creative.  It is open 24 hours a day and the service is always wonderful.  Although it is a very elegant restaurant, true to L. A. style, you don't really have to dress up for it, especially not for breakfast.  If you just want to try it out, by the way, I would recommend breakfast-- you can have a very  good one, with a pot of coffee on the table, an assortment of jams on silver scallop shells and real butter curls , real cream for your coffee, heavy cloth napkins, real flowers on your table.  You get the drift.  Good taste, understated elegance and great service.  Highly recommended when you can afford it.( For dinner anticipate $50.00 per person not including wine.  for breakfast anticipate $20.00 per person)

This restaurant has opened on Potrero Grande opposite Resurrection cemetary in the space once occupied by El Tepeyac.  No more Okie Burritos outside of East L. A., I'm afraid.  I ate there with a friend and the food was good.  The hokie fun decorations and the juke box are gone.  Didn't try the guacamole-- will give it a try and let you know.  The food was good and not expensive but it lacks the flair that was there before.  We liked gigantic oversized burritos and such.  I will let you know.  For now-- it has convenient parking. The food was good.  The service was good.  It just wasn't El Tepeyac.

Killer Shrimp, 4000 Colfax Avenue, Studio City, CA 91604-2145+1 818 508 1570