Los Angeles Food

Good Selection

1. Wine Expo

Neighborhood: Santa Monica

Expo seems sympathetic to my plight, with many bottles priced at $8.99.   I actually headed to Wine Expo to buy beer, and was pleased to see that they had a good selection of microbrews.  They had...

2. K & L Wine Merchants

Neighborhood: Hollywood

Love K&L Wine Merchants. Great wine selection, very good Scotch and Tequila selections as well as sakes too! I also attended the sake tasting and a few others as well. The Thursday night tasting...

3. Galco's Soda Pop…

Neighborhood: Highland Park

Galco's has been around forever and is quite famous around these parts. The Times has done a couple different feature pieces on Galco's over the years. They have a good beer selection and an amazing...

4. The Wine House

Neighborhood: West Los Angeles

Excellent selection, good prices, knowledgeable staff and good wine tasting clases.  They don't have the best prices in town but they are better than most and have a hugh selection.  The high-end...

5. Wing Hop Fung

Believe it or not... they have a very good selections of wines. And.. they also offers wine tasting.  Plus, you can choose from a varieties of beautiful and articulated gift sets... such as Sake sets...

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Good Value

1. Diddy Riese Cookies

Neighborhood: Westwood

looking at the nutrition facts on a bag of candy.  She (and by extension, you) just didn't get it, apparently.    Diddy Riese is GOOD.  Accept it, and let us move on....

2. Wine Expo

Neighborhood: Santa Monica

that, it must be good. And boy was it ever!  Thanks to Eric "the beer guy," we were taking on a palate elating journey through the richness of Tempranillo, the decadence of Italia and even treated...

3. Scoops

Neighborhood: Wilshire Center

everything and anything in regards to food... except THIS actually tastes good.  My favorite suggestion on the suggestion board was Red Wine & Holy Wafer.  Genius.  I LOVE EXTREME VARIETY!...

4. Porto's Bakery

Neighborhood: Burbank

Hmmmmm... I was in debate over 4 stars or five. I decided to do four because as good as Porto's is, there are some glitches to their operating system (one dorky computer joke).  Now, I can honestly...

5. Porto's Party Store…

Neighborhood: Glendale

THE ORDER: All their pastries are pretty & they taste as good as they look  YIPPEEE: My ultimate favorites - Ham Croquettes  BOOO: Pastries are amazing - Cuban sandwiches are disappointing This place...

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