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I can tell you that the City Walk Versailles lives up to its sister's reputations. I've been to most of them and they're all amazingly good, amazingly cheap, and amazingly fast. And don't be surprised to have to wait in line to get in! The one on Venice is near our kitchen so we eat there every couple weeks. Get the chicken and pork combo, crispy, garlicky chicken on the bone and shredded, garlicky pork. Plantains, black beans, and the tastiest white rice I've ever had. I'm not a rice guy, but I could make a meal of this stuff.
In downtown L.A. I love the Original Pantry, been there since 1926 and looks it. The menu is written on boards on the wall and I'm convinced all the ancient waiters are ex-cons. You sit down and they drop a half a loaf of sourdough bread and a plate of cole slaw in front of you. The menu is mostly chops and steaks, some chicken, usually short ribs, too. Breakfast is amazing. Apparently these people don't get out to other restaurants, 'cause when your order of ham and eggs with pancakes show up, it takes up three plates! Expect to stand in line here, too. Open 24 hours, their motto is, "Never closed, never without a customer."
Mr. Sippee. A take-out fried chicken place in an Arco station on Blaine street below Olympic. Amazingly cheap and better fried chicken than I've gotten most anywhere.
Except Roscoe's.
Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. Low carb what now? Just go. Stop trying to figure out why, just go. No, you don't wrap your chicken in your waffle like a taco, don't be crazy. Stop arguing and go.
And in Corona, where I grew up, a drive-through Mexican restaurant called Miguel's Jr. The best red beef or green pork burrito I've ever had anywhere. No lettuce, no rice, no beans, no nothing but meat and sauce the way God intended burritos to be when He invented them. It's become a small chain out there in the Inland Empire, and I haven't been disappointed yet.
My best Yestaurant was Belisle's. It was down Harbor from Disneyland and a great place to go after work. Their gimmick was that everything was HUGE. Pies were about ten inches tall. Cinnamon rolls were the size of a small cake. Sandwiches were basically served on a loaf of bread sliced sideways. And my favorite part was that for a side you could have french fries, mashed potatoes, or sage stuffing. Stuffing as a side! Heaven. I wish they would resurrect it in Downtown Disney.