Leeza Maroe, Jane, Fabian Fernandez, The Blind Trees

Before

0.4 mi · 7 min walk - Mid-Wilshire

Garlic chicken with black beans, rice and plantains, served fast in a dining area with the lights up. The garlic sauce is the reason people have been coming to this La Cienega address for decades and the plate still costs less than twenty dollars. Walk in, get seated, eat, leave.

After

short ride recommended · 7 min - Beverly Grove

A corner diner on the ground floor of the 1967 Beverly Laurel, red vinyl booths and loud music until three in the morning. It shut in the spring of 2020 and reopened that November under Stephanie Wilson, who had worked there since 2011, first as a server and then as general manager.