Osteria La Buca - Sherman Oaks

Palermo has held its corner of Los Feliz, and it knows exactly what kind of night it's built for.

Locanda Veneta has been doing the same thing, and that's precisely the point.

Here's the thing about Taqui Taqui: it closes at 3 p.m.

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Buena Comida Mexicana earns its footprint on South Western Avenue by doing something that's trickier than it looks: running a family-owned Mexican kitchen inside Koreatown that feels genuinely at home rather than incongruous.