If you’re on the east side: Kogi Truck (short rib tacos or burrito)
Angel’s Tijuana Tacos
Din Tai Fung
Pine & Crane
Guisados
Soowan Galbi
Saffy’s
Tu Madre
Night Market + Song
Gloria’s (brunch)
Loupiette Kitchen (breakfast)
Alcove (dessert and drinks)
Bacari Silverlake
Silverlake Ramen
Hoy-ka Thai
Sugarfish
El Compadre
Smorguburg (Sundays only)
Jeno’s ice cream
Goldburger
Mazel Not on the east side, but Lodge Bread has the best hummus in LA.
A list of my favs bc I can’t decide:
- Yokaloka
- La Falafeleria
- Shangrila Dimsum
- Chuka Ramen
- Restaurante Cabreira
- Bel Mondo
- Fratelli Figurato
Koreatown
🧖🏽♀️ Wi Spa
🍢 Dan Sung Sa
🎤 Brass Monkey
☕️ Cafe de Mama
🍛 Danbi
🎳 Shatto 39 Lanes
🎱 Koray Billiard Echo Park
🌮Angel’s Tacos
Echo Park Lake
🍨 Fluffy McCloud’s
📚&🖼️ Heavy Manners Library
🍹Bar Flores NELA
Lincoln Park
🎶 Lodge Room
🛍️ Rose Bowl Flea
🍔 Troy’s Burgers
🖼️ Guerrero Gallery
🛍️ St. Vincent Thrift Store
Ascot Hills Park Los Feliz
Barnsdall Art Park
🥖 Figaro Bistrot
📚 Skylight Books
🎥 Los Feliz 3 Little Tokyo
🍣 Sushi Gen
🛒 Nijiya Market
🍵 Cafe Dulce Chinatown
🥪 Philippe’s
🍷Café Triste
🍸General Lee’s
🎶&🕺🏽 Grand Star Jazz Club
🍖&🍷 Lasita Hollywood
🥞 Clark Street Diner
Wattles Garden Park
🍔 Hollywood In-N-Out
📚 Counterpoint Records & Books Boyle Heights
🌮 Milpa Grille
🌯 El Tepeyac
🛍️ El Mercado on 1st St DTLA
🍱 Yuko Kitchen
Vista Hermosa Park
💐 LA Flower Market
🛍️ Santee Alley
🖼️ ICA LA West Hollywood
🛍️ Out of the Closet (Furniture Store)
🎶&🥡 Genghis Cohen
🥡 Formosa Café
🛍️ Scout
🍺 Barney’s Beanery
🍸 Bar Lubitsch A little bit outside:
Santa Paula Punch Bowls
El Matador Beach
Huntington Library Gardens
Golf N’ Stuff
I’ve done this every time I’ve found myself between full time jobs and it really makes the whole time better. You have a little money coming in and you can collect material for your future memoir. Some odd jobs from my past: Axe throwing coach
Closet designer
Lunch catering delivery
Balloon bouquet maker
Background extra i found them on big job boards like indeed and also Craigslist (Searching “part time” gets you less garbage results). If you hate it after you start you can just quit! Also if you like pets, signing up for dog walking or petsitting will keep you active and you get to hang out with pets.
I love doing this, it’s wonderfully disorienting. Theres still so much day left afterwards it’s basically a whole new day, like an optical illusion, but of time.
Shopping cart with a bad wheel.
Sock slipping down your shoe.
The day after you burn your tongue when it’s still all sensitive.
An eye twitch.
bad toilet paper (thin, scratchy).
clothing tag that itches.
Really strong static shock that makes you jump.
getting perfume in your mouth.