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Nearly every fast food chain makes their version of breaded and fried chicken strips, and a growing number of restaurants offer tenders. We ordered the chicken tenders at 11 chains, including Raising Cane’s, Chick-fil-A and Kentucky Fried Chicken. fried tenders An order of chicken tenders from Chicken Guy!, Guy Fieri’s new chicken tender restaurant. What we paid: $21.24 for six …

Garlic sauce has gone mainstream, with the condiment reaching far beyond Lebanese restaurants to American grocery stores such as Costco and Trader Joe’s. An order of rotisserie chicken from Zankou Chicken with sides of the restaurant’s famous garlic sauce. “For sure Zankou had a huge role in all the groceries and restaurants adding garlic sauce,” says Vartkes Iskenderian, whose grandparents …

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Your first stop from L.A.’s 101 best restaurants? This weekend-only taqueria

Our annual mega-project is live! Since 2013, The Times has published a yearly guide to the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, though in the six years now that I’ve been plunging into the project for months the word “essential” has always been more of a guiding precept for me. The three magazine covers for the 2024 edition of the …

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Lionel Boyce of ‘The Bear’ shares his favorite local restaurants on an Inglewood food crawl

Ongoing Series Columnist Jenn Harris joins your favorite celebrities to explore their go-to cuisines and restaurants in Los Angeles. To prepare for his role as a baker in “The Bear,” Lionel Boyce spent two weeks working at Hart Bageri in Copenhagen, he told The Times’ Jenn Harris. “It’s like the heavens overlap.” At Dulan’s: “This is a restaurant where you …

When you think of the restaurants that best represent Los Angeles, which ones come to mind? “Remember to check the restaurant’s menu and reviews beforehand to ensure that they have options that you’ll enjoy and meet your dietary needs.” The artificial intelligence proceeded to recommend In-N-Out Burger, Grand Central Market, Urth Caffé, Roscoe’s House of Chicken n’ Waffles, Canter’s Deli …

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Some of our favorite new L.A. restaurants for outdoor dining

Just over 50% of Californians are at least partially vaccinated, and COVID-19 cases across the state have decreased nearly 13% in the last week alone. Restaurants are welcoming customers back inside dining rooms with increased capacities; for some people takeout remains the most comfortable, safest option. Dozens of the defining restaurants listed in that project offer outdoor dining, so for …

Beginning March 14, restaurants in Los Angeles County opened their dining rooms after being barred from serving indoors for most of the past 12 months. March 2020 — Concerns around COVID-19 accelerate and restaurants across Los Angeles begin to experience reservation cancellations and emptying dining rooms. “We’re prepared to work harder, we’re prepared to get through hard times, but we’re …