Papa Cristo’s C&K Importing Company calls itself the Athens of Los Angeles, and for good reason. This taverna and specialty store has been the largest purveyor of Greek products in ...
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Top 6 Daily Deal Sites for Los Angeles
Every morning, we wake up to a handful of emails touting discount savings on all kinds of products and services. To be honest, though, some of the offerings are pretty lame – is it really a good idea to use a coupon for a face lift? – and hardly worth the trouble of deleting each [...]
La Brea Bakery
La Brea Bakery is a beacon of hope in an age of rubbery sandwich bread and carb-free diets. The brainchild of L.A. native and acclaimed chef Nancy Silverton, the café and bakery – an annex of Campanile – offers an impressive selection of sweets, cheeses, olives, pantry staples, pre-prepared foods, and, of course, bread. Bakers [...]
Fraîche
Fraîche Fine Gifts offers much more than the standard gift basket of ten dollar wine, sesame crackers, and pasteurized cheese spread. Its masterfully composed baskets are filled with exotic fruits, imported cheeses and meats, and hand-made chocolates. The Good Traveler, reminiscent of a nineteenth century grocer’s hamper, is packed with nuts, chocolate sauce, and dried [...]
Gloria’s
Gloria’s Cake and Candy Supplies was clearly born out of a passion for making and decorating sweets. We first visited the small shop on a tip from a Sur La Table employee when we couldn’t find a baseball hat cookie cutter. At Gloria’s, we found a sports-themed pack with a half-dozen shapes. Gloria’s sells everything [...]
The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills
It’s easy to drop major cash at The Cheese Store of Beverly Hills. This purveyor has been providing some of the finest international cheeses to chefs, caterers, and regular folks alike for over 40 years. It imports cheeses from all over France, Italy, and over one dozen other countries. In addition to selling some of [...]
Beverly Hills Farmers’ Market
Sundays 9am-1pm Featured Vendors: Frontier Kettle Corn – that savory scent of popcorn you smell when you arrive at the market: it’s from these folks Honey Pacifica – beautiful jars of honey, honey sticks, and bee pollen Kenter Canyon – gourmet lettuce, herbs, spinach Zuckerman - fantastic potatoes and asparagus Healthy Family Farms – all your [...]
Cookin’ Stuff
What Best Buy is to electronics and Target is to everything else in our lives, Cookin’ Stuff is to home cooking supplies. And in case your analogies are a little rusty: this store has everything you need to cook anything you want. If you’re buying cookware for a new kitchen, they have aisles of Emerilware pans, Le [...]
Hardy’s Meat Market
We debated for some time whether or not Hardy’s Meat Market was up to L.A. Gourmet standards. But, even weeks after our visit there, we couldn’t forget the intoxicating smell of its rotisserie chicken. Hardy’s is located inside Studio City’s M&M Market, an aging brick building that’s hardly noticed by passers by. The only visible sign of [...]
Co-opportunity
Santa Monica’s Co-opportunity is more than just a grocer; it’s a community. In fact, as its name suggests, the store is a co-op. This means that it’s owned by members who pay an annual fee in exchange for certain benefits. In addition to receiving left-over profits, members serve on the Board of Directors, get special [...]
El Gaucho Meat Market
El Gaucho Meat Market is a mini-mart, butcher, restaurant, and local hangout all in one. The mini-mart offers a small but more than sufficient variety of South American pantry items, including dulce de leche, corn flour, canned fish, spices, and sodas. We personally can’t get enough of the Materva Yerba Mate bubbly and Chocolate Ibarra! [...]
