Karen Palmer
Writer // Editor // French Bread Pizza Maker // LA Food Editor @sfgate
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Karen Palmer
Diners are certainly nothing new in Los Angeles: Googie-style institutions like Norms and Pann’s have been serving customers big platters of breakfast fare for decades. Even iconic San Francisco import Mel’s Drive-In has seen a resurgence of coolness lately, hosting a pop-up for Kim Kardashian’s brand Skims to celebrate its recent flagship opening in LA. But there’s something … different about the diner under construction at Santa Monica Boulevard and Orange Drive in Hollywood.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Karen Palmer
Many signs on my Saturday drive along the Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Monica to Malibu would point to it being yet another uneventful late-spring morning. For starters, there was a healthy flow of cars heading north. Surfers could be seen dotting the water in the overcast weather, a harbinger of the region’s well-known “June gloom” to come. A plane with a somewhat out-of-touch banner promoting the new season of “Love Island” (“It’s Back, Beaches”) flew overhead.
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1 week ago |
sfgate.com | Karen Palmer
California fast food giant In-N-Out looms large over Las Vegas these days. The company has 18 locations around the 600-square-mile valley, with outposts ringing the airport and lining every major travel route out of town. For decades, the company has aggressively pursued the region and its approximately 2.3 million residents and some 40 million yearly visitors, but now it’s doubling down again.
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2 weeks ago |
pressdemocrat.com | Karen Palmer
Earlier this month, the city of Santa Monica announced plans to turn the beleaguered Third Street Promenade into a so-called "entertainment zone," where visitors 21 and older can consume alcoholic beverages out in the open air, unconfined. Much like, say, Las Vegas or New Orleans, well-behaved drinkers who stick to the public promenade during designated hours can freely walk between businesses or up and down the plaza, adult beverage in hand.
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2 weeks ago |
sfgate.com | Karen Palmer
Although San Diego already has a thriving taco and burrito scene all its own, it’s about to get an outpost of a Michelin-recognized taqueria from just across the border: Tijuana’s beloved Tacos El Franc plans to open a location in the Southern California city sometime this year. And that’s just the start. The must-visit Tijuana taco stand, which traces its origins back to a 1970s taco cart, is ready to embark on a big California expansion plan.
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