Jamaican restaurant on Crenshaw in Laemert Park. Try the curry goat and the bread pudding.

Not a restaurant, but a gourmet tamal company. You can order them in bulk and have them shipped. The Corn Maiden also runs stalls at many of L.A.'s farmers' markets. My fave is the goat cheese and green chile tamal.

Wonderful, if pricey Italian restaurant in Los Feliz.

Our default café. Wide range of nouveau cuisine and American dishes at reasonable prices. Fun atmosphere and very popular. Good salads, soups, hamburgers. Another favourite is the stir fry chicken.

Popular Oaxacan restaurant in West Los Angeles. The most wonderful Mexican food i've had in all of Los Angeles. My faves are the barbacoa de chivo and the taco de barbacoa de chivo (?). ¿Where else can you get fresh chapulines (grasshoppers)? (If you ask for this, you will be asked if you know what you're ordering. This particular item is not translated into English on the menu.)

Wide range of American dishes (much more than just hamgurgers). Favourites include the hamburgers, the penne with sausage and peppers (but very greasy), the lobster bisque, the ribs. One of the few places where you can get oven-fresh cornbread with your meal.

Excellent, moderately priced Indian restaurant on the north side of Beverly just west of La Brea.

My favourite Chinese restaurant ever. Lots of interesting dishes. Never greasy. Somewhat expensive. On the south side of Beverly (methinks) just east of La Ciénaga.

Nouveau-cuisined Mexican restaurant on the west side of Main Street just south of south of Hill Street in Santa Mónica.

Pricey but good European cuisine in a home-like setting. Restaurant is in a big house near Sunset and Vine.

Excellent, moderately priced Thai cuisine in an elegant and relaxing setting (usually with soft jazz background music). On the east side of La Brea almost at the corner of La Brea and Hollywood. Favourite dishes include pad thai, prik king, green curry, spicy noodles, angel wings, eggplant with basil, and chile and mint leaves.

On the east side of Fairfax in the middle of the Ethiopian district (Fairfax just south of Olympic). Moderately priced but spicy Ethiopian restaurant. Each booth has a grass hut roof over it. We almost always order the same thing (à la carte): shefinfin and the vegetarian combo. You can also pick up a bag of injira (sponge bread) to go.

Russian (and maybe even Uzbeki) restaurant on the northwest corner of Sunset and La Brea. The service is always a little wierd, but the food's good. Interesting atmosphere, with hand painted walls in the booths. They seem to have live entertainment, but we've never caught it. Largely Russian clientele.