Edems Guide to LA
From DoyleGroup
In addition to the usual things (like Yelp), a good guide to the area is the little t, the Caltech undergrad guidebook.
Food
Extraordinary
- In-n-Out (Various locations about LA, one near Caltech). This should be the first place that you eat. In-n-out has a secret menu, but here are some choice selections:
- Double-double: 2 beef patties, 2 slices of cheese
- Animal style: Burger is cooked with mustard on it, and has extra sauce and fried onions. Delicious.
- Neopolitan shake: mixture of chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla shakes.
- Roscoe's (Various locations around LA, one near Caltech). Southern-style food, specializing in chicken and waffles (served together). Order the #1: Scoe's southern style. Eat some of the chicken and waffle in the same bite; it will blow your mind.
- Zankou Chicken (Various locations about LA, one near Caltech). Amazing Armenian food. The "plates" are an especially good deal and are enough food to make a few wraps; it is enough for about 2 lunches. Try the quarter dark chicken, tarna, shwarema, or falafel plates. The individual wraps ("sandwiches") are good, but pricey compared to the plate.
- Taco Azteca (143 South Verdugo Road, Glendale, CA). A bit of a drive, but these may well be the best tacos in the United States.
Good
- Burger continental
- Souplantation
- Tarantino's (784 East Green Street Pasadena). Italian food. Try the stromboli or Carmine special (which is like stromboli). These are in fact the only things I have ever eaten here.
- Puebla Taco (700 North Lake Avenue, Pasadena). Mexican food. It is all good, but my favorite thing is the torta de asada.
- Zono Sushi (230 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena).
Delivery
- President Two. Thai food. Try the chicken yellow curry or the president's fried rice.
- Fredos. Italian food.
- There are not pizza places in LA like there are here. Your best bet for pizza is something like Papa John's.
Fun
- Old town
- Laemmle's One Colorado
- Huntington
- Getty Museum
- Santa Monica Promenade
- Museum of Jurassic Technology
Getting Around
- Supershuttle