My girlfriend has the week off of work (only in the entertainment industry…) so we want to fill up the week with a series of lunch excursions. We live west of the 405, so traffic keeps us close to home most weeknights. This is the perfect opportunity to venture further from home and enjoy a sampling of the best that greater LA has to offer.
Having family, and having gone to college, back East, one of her favorite foods is a good old fashioned lobster roll. Where can we get the absolute best lobster roll in the greater LA area? Our current favorite is Broad Street - any superior options out there?
Ideally we want a different cuisine each day. As mentioned, we are willing to travel far and wide as the goal here is to experience the best of the best. We will drive an extra 30 minutes to dine at the best place rather than the second best. Weekday lunch can be a little tricky and limits the options somewhat, hence the call for suggestions. Some other general ideas (but we are not wed to any of these)
- Best dim sum
- Best classic Mexican
- Open to all other cuisines without restriction
Where should we go?
Shortlist
(1) Mandatory lobster roll day
Consensus seems to be Royal Lobster
Unfortunately, I think this is going to cover the broader seafood category - so probably knocks Mariscos, Holbox, Daybird, etc out of the running
(2) “BBQ”
Langer’s by a hair over Moo’s (I love both dearly)
(3) Chinese / Dim sum
Yang’s Kitchen or Sea Harbour/Lunasia
(4) Thai
Holy Basil (clear consensus of HB over Luv2eat)
(5) “Grilled meats” (Armenian, Turkish, Greek, Persian, general Middle Eastern…I know many of these cuisines are very different, just doing my best to categorize somewhat)
Mini Kabob bang bang / b2b Hamlet’s Kitchen
(Saffy’s DQd since we’ve already been)
We want to try new places (aside from Langer’s which is a re-visit), so probably skipping pizza/Italian as we’ve been to most or all of the top places in LA.
