From: akkana@moab.wpd.sgi.com (Akkana Peck)
Newsgroups: ba.food
Subject: LA and SD food, and driving highway 1
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:19:07 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <C0x2yL.FBp@taligent.com> cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:
>Highway 1 "not much longer" than US 101?  That's absurd; highway 1
>between Los Angeles and San Francisco isn't even a day's drive.  It's
>more like two days, and VERY grueling at that.  The speed limit is much

Have you actually driven this route??  You must be one of those RV's
going 20 mph.  I took Highway 1 from the south bay to LA last December
and it took about 8.5 hours, including a half-hour stop at a bike shop
in Cambria.  That's only a couple hours longer than my return trip on I-5!
(And no, I wasn't going particularly fast.)  Add another hour over I-5
if you're starting from SF and taking highway 1 all the way.

Anyway, a couple of people asked about food in LA and SD.  Those are hard
requests to answer -- what kind of food?  What areas?  But here are a few:

Greater LA:
Orange County: there's a terrific Greek restaurant in Irvine, a few
  blocks east of I-5 two exits south of the I405 merge (argh, what is the
  name of that road?  I've gone blank.)  They're listed in the yellow
  pages (which is how I found it).  Little family place with friendly
  waiters who lead line-dances through the restaurant whenever they get the
  urge.  GOod food, too.
Alas, Violet's is now closed (why can't Russian restaurants survive in
  CA?), so I don't know of any good Russian restaurants any more
  (there's one called "Little Russia" in Glendale, but they were closed
  when we went there -- somebody check it out and tell me if it's good!)
Versailles, on Fairfax: Cuban food (nothing at all like Jose's here,
  which also calls itself Cuban and is wonderful in a different way).
  Garlic lovers' paradise: the roast pork was the most garlicky thing
  I've ever eaten.  Funny waiter.
Green Street East, in Pasadena near Del Mar, I think (not on Green
  Street) just east of Lake: great brunch place, with lots of innovative
  salads, eggs benedict, jerked beef, zucchini bread, etc.  Try the
  Dianne salad (sorta like a Chinese chicken salad): be aware that it's
  huge (a friend and I used to split a half-Dianne between us and still
  not finish it).
Hampton's in Hollywood: nobody mentioned this in the "great burger"
  discussion, but I think it deserves mention.  Good burgers, classier
  atmosphere than Tommy's or Wolfe Burgers, somewhat like the Oasis in 
  Palo Alto except that Hampton's has much better food.

SD:
Khyber Pass, on Convoy in the Clairemont area: good Afghani food in an
  interesting environment (Disneyland-cave-like atmosphere, hard to
  describe).  Quite different from Kabul here (which is also good).
Little India, on Convoy about a block from Khyber Pass: great Indian
  food in a little hole-in-the-wall family restaurant.  Don't miss the
  fried dhal appetizer (bring back a couple of gallons for me!)
Fuddrucker's, on Mira Mesa Blvd (this is a chain, I think there are
  several in SD and LA): another good hamburger joint.

	...Akkana